Heat Signature’s Fair Points Update: Reacting To Good Reviews

Posted By: GamerDating - November 23, 2017

Heat Signature, made by two-man dev team Suspicious Developments came out 21st of September 2017. The devs, well followed and liked had made the previous title Gun Point which was also a well-received indie game. Heat Signature took you into space, playing a contractor, fighting for the universe, in space, hijacking ships, assassinating big targets, CEOs and rescuing captured agents. The game features top down views, procedural gener

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StarCraft II is Now Free 2 Play With Patch 4.0

Posted By: GamerDating - November 15, 2017

Starcraft II goes Free-To-Play, bringing one of the best RTS games to your door. I mean, it's very likely you already have it. BUT if you do not, it is an awesome time to hop on and play.  SCII will be giving F2P access to Wings of Liberty campaign, Multiplayer, and some awesome Co-op gameplay, perfect for you game date ;) Beginning November 14, players around the world will get free access to the full award-winning Wings of L

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Blizzcon Overwatch Animated Short, New Hero, and Early Dev Footage

Posted By: GamerDating - November 06, 2017

The weekend saw one of the best animations, awesome eSport event, new awesome hero and some brilliant panels across Blizzcon 2017. While we saw awesome announcements, new World of Warcraft Expansion, Classic Servers to come, Heroes of the Storm Hanzo and new Healer; Moira for Overwatch. Overwatch was one of the fan favourites and the new 7 minute animated short "Honor And Glory" provoked more reactions from the crowds (check it ou

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Total War: WARHAMMER II - Mortal Empires Free DLC Available

Posted By: GamerDating - October 27, 2017

When Creative Assembly, Developers of Total War made TW: Medieval I turned to my friends and exclaimed: "If only they'd team up with Games Workshop and make Warhammer". We all laughed, what a dream that would be. Now, years later, after mods, support, and game accessibility the right people. at some point. got together and heard my pleas.  When they announced Total War: WARHAMMER I eagerly snatched it up. I missed t

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Destiny 2 - PC Launch Information

Posted By: GamerDating - October 17, 2017

Destiny 2 launched last month for consoles and is set to launch next week for PC. PC is going to be able to run Destiny 2 at 4K resolution with an uncapped framerate (if you rig can handle it) and they've released a trailer showcasing some beautiful graphics, check it out below. The beta was a fun little play, and I know a lot of people are excited to get involved. It's been a month since launch, so you can check out some youtub

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Loot Boxes Are Killing Games - The Backlash Begins

Posted By: GamerDating - October 10, 2017

It has been a long time coming with season passes, launch DLC, pre-orders and loot boxes slowly eroding the market and dropping those Triple AAA titles to yet another half-cocked content grab game. Thanks to the Star Wars BattleFront 2 Beta that passed us we saw some horrific Loot Box practices and it started a massive community backlash. OpenCritic announced in a tweet they were taking a stand against these practices, and are looking at in

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Star Wars BattleFront II Open Beta

Posted By: GamerDating - October 03, 2017

Star Wars Battlefront II Restricted Beta kicks off this week in two stages. October 4th for those who have pre-ordered the game, whether they did so online or in-store. It'll go live tomorrow, at the following times: PDT: 1am EDT: 4am BST: 9am CEST: 10am The next stage opens the beta up to everyone else, kicking off on Friday, October 6th at the same times listed above. It’ll run until 09:00 PDT (17:00 BST

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Perfect Profile: How To Improve Your Profile - The Words

Posted By: GamerDating - September 25, 2017

The profile can be one of the most daunting first impression someone will have about you. The photo, the words.  Here are some top tips how to fill out your profile to get the best engagement. First of all, and most importantly, FILL OUT YOUR PROFILE.  Having a blank or near-blank profile is just as bad as not uploading a profile picture. No one is going to try to contact you because no one will know anything about yo

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Nintendo Switch gets Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Posted By: GamerDating - September 14, 2017

Bethesda released in a surprise announcement today. Doom and the upcoming shooter Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is coming to the Nintendo Switch alongside Skyrim. Doom is intended to release this Christmas. Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus will be out late on the Switch in 2018. Bethesda also confirmed the date for Skyrim, which is out on November 17th. Seeing Bethesda turn to the Switch and start releasing games is a mas

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Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Feature Breakdown

Posted By: GamerDating - September 07, 2017

Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series created Stellaris, a mix of grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core. With deep strategic gameplay, masses of alien races and an awesome emergent story, the interstellar exploration as you build your empire across space is brilliant. Now after the success of the initial launch and expansion Utopia, Stellaris boasts the new AI. Ste

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Destiny 2 - New Legends will Rise

Posted By: GamerDating - September 01, 2017

This week we've seen Destiny 2 open beta hit Blizzard Battle Net and opened up to millions of gamers to try out Bungie's follow up to the successful Destiny. Bungie has confirmed the servers go live 6th September, at 12am (of your country).  Bungie also confirmed when Destiny 2's first Nightfall strikes, Raid, and Trials will begin. The Nightfall strikes will be available right away, while the Raid kicks off at 10 AM PT / 1

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Rainbow Six Siege Free Weekend on PC, PS4 and XBone!

Posted By: GamerDating - August 23, 2017

Rainbox Six Siege is a FPS, team tactical shooter where you play a role of agents with all differing skills to rescue hostages, disarm bombs and be bad ass special forces. R6 launched at the end of Decemeber 2015, has had 6 expansions (DLC's) release (free) with the next expansion set to hit very soon. This weekend, PC, PlayStation®4, and Xbox One you will be able to play Rainbow Six Siege, for free!  Hav

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Destiny 2 PC Beta Coming in 2 Weeks

Posted By: GamerDating - August 17, 2017

Destiny 2 PC Beta is just around the corner and you can already pre-order via Blizzard Battle.net Do make sure you are eligible for beta on your Blizzard Batte.net account, and then get ready for the Open Beta hitting at the end of the month. You can pre-order to get in early, but hey, I wouldn't pre-order even if its Blizzard. Destiny 2 Open Beta opens on the 29th August and closes on the 31st, so it's only for the weekend! C

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No Man's Sky Update 1.3 - Atlas Rises!

Posted By: GamerDating - August 11, 2017

It has been a while since Hello Games, Devs of the colossal flop No Man's Sky spoke publicly. First we saw the Pathfinder and Foundation updates earlier in the year but now, on the one year anniversary, we see the latest update. Update 1.3 - Atlas Rises. Atlas Rises brings a brand new and overhauled central storyline, portals, a new procedural mission system, trade improvements, system economics, and multiplayer exploration. Sto

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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands Release 5 Hours Free!

Posted By: GamerDating - August 07, 2017

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands is a military shooter in a massive open world that you can play entirely solo or in four-player co-op. While they claim a unique play experience it is the standard ubisoft open world experience, with a modern military twist with an awesome 4 player coop bolted on. The Free Trial will provide you with full access to the content of the main game until you reach 5 hours of playtime. Once you hit this

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PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Monthly Update 4

Posted By: GamerDating - August 01, 2017

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has been steadily praised, worshipped and already crowned as one of the great Early Access games, with a solid team and developers pushing the game to be great. Their communication, development schedule and acceptance for feedback for future patches has put similar games to shame. Since the launch of Early Access, PUBG has since climbed to the highest played non-valve game on Steam, knocking Fallout 4 fromitss

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TitanFall 2 Coop Horde Mode Live - Operation Frontier Shield

Posted By: GamerDating - July 26, 2017

The latest DLC for Titanfall 2 is now available as FREE DLC. You can download the Operation Frontier Shield pack on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The main focus of Operation Frontier Shield pack is the mode "Frontier Defense", a four-player cooperative horde mode where you and your buddies defend against waves. Frontier Defense is the only way to get a new ranking, Aegis Rank, which can be used to get Titan upgrades. The DLC

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Albion Online Launching This Week

Posted By: GamerDating - July 18, 2017

Albion Online is a sandbox MMORPG set in a medieval fantasy world, in which you get to write your own story instead of just following a laid-out path. Explore Albion's vast open world, consisting of five different and unique biomes, with a focus on using gear, rather than innate skills. Spells, Movesets and abilities all rely upon gear allowing you switch out to play anything you fancy. We at GamerDating checked out Albion Online back in 2

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40,000 Steam User Banned!

Posted By: GamerDating - July 11, 2017

At the end of the 2017 Steam Summer Sale the Valve Anti-Cheat banhammer was swung. BOOM, the day after 40,000 steam users were banned, and what a beautiful day to ban them. Sweet, sweet, tears rain down in the hacking world as 40,000 kids cried out in pain after literally paying for a sweet tasty ban. As you can tell from the writing, we hate hackers, and do not see merit in gamers who choose to hack for whatever reason. Still, ov

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Evil Genius 2 Officially Announced Now In Development At Rebellion

Posted By: GamerDating - July 06, 2017

As a nice surprise to the start of this month, Rebellion snuck in an announcement in an E3 video. Evil Genius 2 is coming! 13 years ago, Evil Genius released a game where you would build your base and try and stop heroes sneaking in and ruining your plans. Very similar to the Dungeon Keeper games, and widely loved. Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination sim

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Guild Wars 2 Review

Posted By: Joe "Xirta" - June 29, 2015

Guild Wars 2 is an immersive, fantasy-based MMORPG which allows the player to progress in their own story-based solo play in a persistent world whilst also allowing the addition of missions and events that can be played solo or with others (called “instances”).

The story of Guild Wars 2 revolves around dragons, which are bad, corrupted beings that like to raise undead and corrupt the land. These dragons threaten the world of Tyria, requiring heroes to arise and different races to overcome their difference in order to work to defeat them. Whilst the dragons are general enemy, the storyline they create also offers a lot of interesting story missions focusing on diplomatic relations. For example, as part of my character’s personal story I had to protect two diplomats because a rogue group wanted to stop these two races from uniting and working against the dragons.

When I first entered the world the graphics completely surprised me: they were crystal-clear and had so much detail. This wasn’t just still artwork in the environment but the whole environment and all its moving parts (in my case, the plantlife, as I choose to play a Sylvari, a being of plantlike nature). In-game sounds are unique, yet they retain a similarity to the sounds of other games in this genre, and there are a lot of them. I quite enjoyed the variety of sound effects, which were far better than hearing the same sounds on a standard rotation that some games have (I will go into this more later with weapon changes). The soundtrack is also beautiful, so much so that I’ve found myself listening to it outside the game. There are a vast number of soundtracks and they add a really nice touch to the gameplay.

The UI in this game is simple, yet effective. I feel as though I am able to play my game with fewer clicks, yet still enjoy it as I have so much free space to see the game around me. Your action bar is only made up of your health and energy values, buffs, the minimap, five possible combat actions, a healing ability, three skills of your choosing and one elite skill. Other things, like the chat window, can be toggled on or off.

Combat in this game is pretty straightforward. There is a difference for your character based on whether you are in or out of combat, for instance health with not naturally regenerate during combat, instead only being regained through a healing action or potion. If a pet that you have reaches 0HP it will die, but will then follow you around as a non-combat pet until you leave combat, whereupon it regenerates health. One interesting thing about combat in this game is if you use a ranged attack like firing a bow or using a ranged spell, it will actually hit the first target on the line between you and the original target. I quite liked this as it let me set up many abilities to finish off a target in front and use the rest of the move on the target behind.

Each class can actually use a number of weapons effectively, so your character can be quite different each time, even if you created the same class repeatedly. Let’s use the example of a Mage: Mages can use staffs, but they can also use a dagger and an offhand weapon, but the spells that appear on their UI bar will change based on the style of weapon they are using. I found this really great, as it meant that I wasn’t stuck to a weapon choice; it also means that a simple weapon change can completely transform your gameplay, and might even feel like you are playing the game afresh. This is also true when you are underwater: your abilities change to reflect items and abilities usable underwater . Using the example of the Ranger: to be able to fight underwater a Ranger must have equipped a spear gun or a spear. As soon as you the Ranger goes underwater their new aquatic abilities will be on their action bar. As a spear gun user you can shoot enemies as normal, or use a special move, such as creating a cloud of piranha that deal damage to all enemies in an area. As a spear user your attacks cleave to nearby enemies and can even summon a large jellyfish to shock enemies in an area. 

This game does have a crafting feature and the different branches of this are:

Armorsmith, which can make heavy armour and runes
Artificer, which makes magical weapons (foci, staves, scepters, and tridents) as well as sigils, potions, tonics and tuning crystals
Chef, which allows you to create foods that give you buffs, as well as clothing dyes
Huntsman, which makes shortbows, longbows, pistols, rifles, harpoon guns, torches, and warhorns, as well as sigils and maintenance oils
Weaponsmith, which makes melee weapons(axes, daggers, swords and spears) and shields, as well as sigils
Tailoring, which makes all things cloth-related for light armour, but can also make runes and inventory bags
Leatherworking, which makes all medium armour, as well as inventory bags and runes
Jeweler, which makes the equipment slots of trinkets, rings and amulets as well as making gems you can place within your gear to increase stats.

Like most games you can only have two active crafting professions at a time. The skills require levelling up and materials which can be found and collected yourself in the open world, bought from some NPCs or the trading post (more to come about that later).

Unlike other games, crafting in Guild Wars 2 has two features which I really, really, enjoy. The first is that when you are crafting a large batch of items the crafting picks up the speed after a few until eventually you are just speeding through the crafting. The second is that when you craft you gain character experience from it as well as crafting experience, meaning that if you want to level up this can be one and the same objective, allowing you to experience more of the game as a whole. Further, when you collect materials from the open world such as chopping down trees or mining ores, you also gain experience. This makes it very much worth taking the detour and getting the materials.

A big feature of this game is “events”. These can be things such as killing a particular monster, collecting armour parts, or escorting a person/cart to a particular location. They are all open world and anyone that manages to participate in some way will get a reward which can be achieved at three different levels: bronze, silver or gold. Each level of award rewards a different amount of XP, money or karma (another kind of currency in the game that can be used to purchase racial items and special items). Events can fail, some have time limits, some require that something does not get killed at all. One issue with events that I have found is that when there are a huge amount of people in the event it can actually stop you getting any reward because they could kill enemies before you even manage to get one attack off, meaning that you get no participation. The map you are on typically has several types of event, so the number of other players who might be involved in an event may vary depending on that map, as well as the time of day.

In this game there exists no end-game “raiding” which I was partially sad about because I enjoy the style of combat in this game. However, there are still many things to do, because in this game your level only means so much. The zones are all level restricted, meaning that if you enter a level 1–15 zone your level will be scaled down to be within a similar level (for example, I am currently stood about one third of the way into the zone and I’ve been scaled down to level 9). You get to keep any extra abilities you have gained from levels and passives from traits, so you are a little stronger in a way than one would be at this level. Dungeons are level-restricted also, so at 80 you will gain level-80 items in the dungeon but you are still performing near the level standards of the dungeon you are in, which means that it’s a challenge and you cannot truly out-level a dungeon, giving you a reason to still play in all the dungeons.

There are also a numerous amount of guild activities which are classed as guild missions, such as either killing a world boss or even a guild puzzle, which can only be entered as a guild. This game also features “Mist war”, which is a location purely set aside for PvP. Anyone who enters this area will be scaled up to level 80, so this is a way to compete and show the results of level, gear and any other combat-changing move.

An example of a world boss, which will spawn every two hours and requires a lot of people to take down. Defeating it will reward you with an event completion and loot, and is sometimes required to complete a set of daily tasks for extra rewards.

The travel in this game is either on foot (luckily, many movement speed increases exist) or instant teleportation between waypoints. These waypoints need to be found first, but once you have discovered them you can pay a sum of money which increases the further you are away from the your destination waypoint.

There are features of Guild Wars 2 that allow you to pay real money for some things, but unlike many other paying games I haven’t experienced anything that makes me feel a non-paying gets less out of the game than one who pays. You cannot buy weapons and other item slots, and most things that you can buy are simply for convenience or character appearances. Note, however, that you can exchange in-game gold for gems to use at the shop as well, and the ratio is not all that bad. As such, I found that the ability to pay real money for things just slightly decreases the time it might take a player to progress, but also gives the non-paying players a chance to earn the money and buy the shiny outfit they desire for their character.

The only bug I have come across is bugged events: sometimes the enemies are dead and yet they still appear on the map, or an escort will no longer move along the path, but these bugs are not that game-breaking, as you can just move on and the problem will go away at some point.

The game is currently valued at £34.99, which now includes the core game and the upcoming expansion. I think that it’s worth the money: I’ve managed to get 40 hours out of it so far over two characters, for which 30 hours were spent on my current Ranger character. who is only level 48. I’ve also only managed to complete one dungeon out of eight, meaning that I have a lot of content still waiting for me.

In addition you can get Guild Wars Heroic Edition with our Gold Package bundled with subscription to GamerDating.

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