GDC 2015 hits record attendance with 26,000

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 10, 2015

Develop GDC announced that more than 26,000 games industry professionals were in San Francisco for last week's Game Developers Conference hitting an all time record high. GDC 2015 announced some big news with Epic Games and Unreal Engine 4 becoming free to all, and Unity 5 launching. In addition Vale announced their Source 2 engine. Valve hit the virtual reality scene with HTC Vive, and Project Morpheus release some updates, and AM

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Blizzards Overwatch address female diversity

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 09, 2015

Ever since Blizzards FPS: Overwatch was announced we've been on the edge of our seats watching the awesome cinematic and arguing over who looks coolest. One issue was raised where it was observed that female characters lacked coverage of all roles. Blizzard has answered with Zarya. Announced at PAX East 2015, Zarya, is a Russian soldier who is one of "world's strongest women.": We've been hearing a lot o

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Valve announce Steam Machine details

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 06, 2015

Valve's have announced their new Steam machines, designed in taking PC gaming into the living room and will cost as little as $460 (£302). The Steam Machines have been detailed on the Steam website, and shows multiple suppliers from Alienware, Asus, Gigabyte, Origin, Zotac and more (up to 15).  Does Steam and their design of living room boxes appeal to the average gamer? Will this re-introduce living ro

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Battlefield 4 - Mega patch improvements!

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 03, 2015

DICE has released a huge mega patch today, with updates to Battlefield 4 to make the multiplayer experience stellar. Improvements to the netcode have been a welcome bit of news with new game modes, improvements to spawning, combat, health, new graphic updates and ui changes. You can check out the full blog announcment in the battlelog, where you can read all about the PC, Xbox and PS updates.    

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3DRealms is back with Bombshell

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - March 03, 2015

From the creators of Rise of the Triads, Duke Nukem and Max Payne, comes Bombshell, an isometric action role-playing game for PC and consoles. Bomb disposal technician turned mercenary for hire, Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison must strong-arm her way across 4 planets in an Unreal Engine-powered galactic adventure to rescue the president from an apocalyptic alien threat.  The trailer (available on youtube) reminds me of Alien

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We Happy Few, new crazy indie title.

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 27, 2015

Compulsion games have announced their title: We Happy Few, a game they've been developing since early 2014. With a very special theme and artwork the game feels freaky and I'm eager to get more information! We Happy Few will be at PAX East 2015 with a playable "build" for anyone to have a go. Check out the trailer here, its crazy, awesome and I cannot wait to get my hands on it!

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Warhammer 40,000 announce their PC MOBA

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 26, 2015

Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 is at it again, Whitebox Interactive announce their latest game devloping Warhammer 40k: Dark Nexus Arena. Stated to have the heroes such as Space Marines, Orks, and the Tau in an assortment of four vs four player battles. Other races such as the Sisters of Battle, Dark Eldar, Eldar, and Chaos Space Marines will be added in the fullness of time. It is interesting to note the four vs four bat

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GTAV Heists releasing March 10th

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 25, 2015

Rockstar Games announced two updates yesterday with a date of March 10th for Online Heists and another delay for the eagerly awaited PC version to be released April 14th. Online Heists We are excited to announce that the launch of Heists for GTA Online is scheduled for March 10th. We know it’s been a wait, and appreciate your patience. Heists will bring a brand new 4-player cooperative gameplay experience to GTA Online, giving pl

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Steam now has over 125 million active accounts

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 24, 2015

Steam released a press release with the Steam VR.  GDC 2015 will mark the 13th anniversary of Valve's first public announcement of Steam, which has since become the leading platform for PC, Mac, and Linux games and software.  In the last year, Steam added new services and features - including In-Home Streaming, Broadcasting, Music, and user created stores - as it grew to over 125 million active accounts worldwide.  S

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Updates and Fixes

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 23, 2015

Hello all, Thank you for your continued support, reports and emails about errors, bugs and features. We take everything on board and strive to build the best service for all.  We've been busy this last week fixing some glaring bugs involving: Landing page game art. Landing page graphical bugs fixed and load speed improved. Game Library now pulls games correctly. Footer layout bugs fixed. Subscription displaying incorr

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UK's first dedicated eSports arena: The Gfinity Arena revealed

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 20, 2015

Next month the UK gets its first dedicated eSports Arena at the Vue Cinema, Fulham Broadway London. Within the Vue Cinema, the Gfinity Arena hosts three custom-built stages with capacity to house over 600 gaming fanatics, offering the comfiest seats found in eSports. Get your tickets through the Vue website when they go on sale, and what a better place to take your special someone on a special date. eSports Arena to watch our f

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GamersGate celebrate 10th Anniversary

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 19, 2015

GamersGate are celebrating 10 years of trading with exclusive 48 hours deals. You can pick up Valkyria Chronicles, Company of Heroes 2, Defiance, and Tom Clancy's games for 50-75% off. We always like to see successful gaming ventures last a while, and we'd like to salute GamersGate for 10 years of -as they call it- awesomeness. Some cracking games ideal for co-op play, and some amazing rpgs.

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Grow Home patched

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 18, 2015

Grow Home has been one of those games that slips easily under your radar. You play as BUD (Botanical Utility Droid), a robot on a mission to save his home planet by harvesting the seeds of a giant alien plant. Sure, sounds a little... dry, but it's a great 3D platformer with charm, and taste. With the latest update: Some rare flora and fauna has been recently detected on the alien planet. M.O.M has a new side quest for B.U.D to inv

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New Colorblind Support in WoW Patch 6.1

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 17, 2015

World of Warcraft patch 6.1 has revealed that you’ll find a new user interface system that we’ve designed to assist players who have common visual issues related to colorblindness. In the new ‘Accessibility’ interface configuration section, you’ll be able to enable both text and color enhancements that may improve your visual experience while playing WoW. ‘Enable UI Colorblind Mode’ (which was pre

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ESL reveals biggest UK tournament for CS:GO and LoL

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 16, 2015

The ESL UK Premiership, the company's largest tournament since 2010, has been announced today for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League of Legends players to win £12,000. The tournaments will be spread over two months of online brackets to culminate in an offline finals at London MCM Comic Con over the 22-24 May weekend, in front of an expected 110,000 spectators. The first qualifiers are scheduled to begin on 23 February. Y

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Silly Stereotypes that Surround Gamers

Posted By: Melissa - February 15, 2015

When I opened my eyes the other morning to a pounding headache and an empty bed, I was instantly in a grumpy mood. Jordan had been out of bed for a couple hours, from what I could hear, his cough was getting worse. Now, I feared I was in the virus’ sights. Thoughts of having an excuse to make chicken soup would usually at least make me a little happy, but today would be a long day with no extra bandwidth. Sitting up, my fears were confirmed

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Why Super Mario 3D World might quite possibly saved my love life.

Posted By: Lacey - February 15, 2015

My husband doesn’t get me. I’ve known this… I’m a complicated stress ball of a woman and at times a bit demanding. Like any woman I appreciate romantic gestures or thoughtful gifts. Which is why last Christmas when my husband gifted me with a Wii U I was honestly a little confused. Please don’t get me wrong I knew how great of a gift it was! But I don’t game… I should have kept my confusion to myself

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GamerDating Launch

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 15, 2015

GamerDating has launched, congratulations and welcome to GamerDating.  To get started fill in your profile to reflect you, the person behind the screen. Hang up your gaming persona, because here we are all gaming fanatics, but we are people! Once you've finished filling in your profile (and remember the more detail, the more success), search the matching system for like minded people. If you like the look of someone, get in touc

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Why you need a picture

Posted By: Gamerdating Team - February 15, 2015

Yes, you will need to upload a picture of real-life you. Because you are awesome. Because you are beautiful. Because real people have real faces. Because relationships happen between people, not avatars. We created GamerDating.com with one goal in mind: to help gamers find other gamers to love them in game and out. To achieve this goal, we feel it is important that our community be made up not of anonymous avatars, but the amazing

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Ian's Story Part 1 - Success of Online Dating

Posted By: Ian - February 15, 2015

Hello, My name is Ian, and happily married to my wife Anne, whom I met through online dating. If you had of asked me some five or six years ago about online dating I may have scoffed at the idea and said it was for either sleazy men and desperate old women. However, times have changed and I now believe it to be one of the best ways to meat like minded individuals and some genuinely nice people. I've never been one for night clubs and

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Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt Review

Posted By: Michael Zarwalski - July 10, 2015

I recently had the opportunity to experience the hype of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt firsthand, and take an in-depth look into its vast expanse of gameplay, its massive open world and its breath-taking story.

The Witcher 3 once again follows Geralt, this time on his quest to destroy the Wild Hunt, a group of spectres that remind me of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (they are even referred to as the “Red Riders”). As well as this overarching story you attempt to find and save your adopted daughter Ciri, (which, interestingly, you get to play as in some flashback scenes). On top of all of this, each village has a wealth of side quests and plotlines that have their own interesting quirks and decisions that either aid or hinder you later in the game.

The Witcher series has always done well to try and push the limit on graphics, and The Witcher 3 continues this trend. The graphics are stunning, and if your computer is able to handle Nvidia’s HairWorks, then it is even better. Unfortunately the graphics have not been optimized for AMD and can be quite disappointing at times, with frame rate drops and some graphical glitches. Recent patches have fixed some of the errors, however I have found myself turning down some settings, when on other games I could easily handle the gameplay.

The fighting mechanics of the game take a while to adjust to, but once mastered work really well for the PC (it took me about 10 minutes to climb a ladder at first!). The motion is responsive, and with the flexibility of the mouse 360-degree fighting works wonders. Sometimes selecting spells mid-combat can be frustrating, and I found myself often spinning the spell selection screen round several times, before highlighting the right spell, however with the vast wealth of mods already available for the game, custom key binds being one of them, the more useful spells can be allocated to mouse buttons, so I ended up using that selection rarely.

Enemies also feel unique when you fight them. Although your combat options are limited to dodging, parrying and a couple of different attacks, the tactics required to kill different foes felt distinctly different for each one.

The Witcher 3 certainly is immersive and although minor tweaks could improve some quality of life instances, the game as a whole flows really well.

There is lots of customization throughout the game, ranging from the skills you choose, to alchemy you imbibe and gear choices. All of these change the way you play the game, and how you choose your fights. Having different sets of armour and weapons feels almost essential, as without properly geared items, some fights can be almost impossible. This can be both a blessing and curse. It is nice that you can gear up for a particular challenge, rather than walking around in generic kit, however spending hours in a bank vault choosing gear, or carrying around five suits of armour for each scenario, can also be tedious at times. This becomes even more apparent when you become over burdened by carrying a lot of items, as finding out whicj items are heaviest involves checking every item individually for its weight. It would be nice to have a list-style inventory that displays attributes like that.

The skill tree feels less extraordinary. There for four sections based on different aspects of Geralt’s skillset: Combat, Signs (magic), Alchemy and General. Upon levelling you earn a skill point, though it doesn’t add anything special, just increases a stat here and there, be it extra health or more damage. It would be nice if there were more bonuses for specialism, such as a special sign or a different form of attack. Otherwise, levelling is not especially exciting.

The crafting system feels very generic unfortunately. I was excited when I heard that different effects depended on how much alchemy you used throughout the game, and possible inventions, but the majority of recipes come from scrolls and blueprints found in the game. Much of it felt quite grindy and time-consuming. I frequently discovered that the weapons and armour you can craft ended up being worse than weapon and armour that can be found, and ended up just plugging in some gaps, such as if you had been unlucky in finding something for a particular worn inventory slot. During the late game some of the best items can be crafted, but this has a lot of random chance which means even more grinding. This might be of interest to some peoples interest, but I found it to be quite infuriating.

The most striking feature of this game, however, is how huge it is. I spent almost three hours doing quests in a little village that had nothing to do with the main story, and a) it didn’t feel like wasted time, and b) most of the quests felt different enough to not be a grind. Interactions with NPCs are fresh and I am still finding new dialogues 40+ hrs into the game. Many of them have a huge backstory themselves that you discover as you help them, making the game really come to life.

There are still sections of the map I have yet to visit and adventure in. There are plenty of other interesting things in the game in which to invest your time , however. One of my favourites is a collectable card game called Gwent. Many merchants, innkeepers, peasants, nobles and others play this game, and it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to collect all the cards. In a similar vein to Final Fantasy VIII’s Triple Triad, the cards are all from people or monsters in the game, including Geralt himself. There are 150 currently in the game, however I would not be surprised to see this number expanding. The rules are simple, but require some strategy when playing, and I can see this coming out as a board game in the near future.

Throughout your travels you are faced with many decisions, some of which do not seem to affect much at first. However, as the game gets closer to its conclusion, you realize that the smallest decision may have affected you more profoundly than you first thought. This decision tree adds to the replayability factor of the game, as you could fight with one set of allies in one play-through, and in the next find yourself on the wrong end of one of their swords!

My greatest love of this game though is that you always feel challenged. You are always in danger. Even during your flower-picking adventures, monsters can come out of the river, the sky, and even the ground, and if you are not prepared they can pose a significant threat. This made the game exciting for me, and always had me full of adrenaline.

stands on the top level when it comes to PC game prices. APriced at £50, The Witcher 3 is one of the most expensive games currently available. However, with the amount of gameplay that is included, the outstanding graphics and the outstanding immersion, I think it is worth every penny. The game is far from polished, and still has numerous bugs and glitches that need to be fixed, but the team at CD Projekt RED have done incredibly well to tackle them quickly, and the worst issues were fixed within a week. The UI could do with some more tweaking, but with the modability of the game, there is something to correct most annoyances I found within the game.

All in all, this game deserves the hype it received at launch. There is plenty to do and if you are an RPG-aholic like myself, you will find connection with the game. It certainly rivals Skyrim and I would be surprised to see a better open world RPG out this year. We have already seen one patch coming and announced monthly DLC, as it still is a little rough around the edges, but if you enjoy fast-paced gameplay, unique enemies and a stunning storyline this game is for you.

Editor note: Alex has already turned The Witcher 3 into a co-op game date experience while playing with his girlfriend as he mans the combat and leaves the dialogue to a joint effort and the card game entirely to his girlfriend. Who said we can't have a nice evening in with the Wild Hunt? 

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