Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 28, 2015

Although we haven’t been together for all of it, the GamerDating team has been playing the Total War series for the entire 15 years.  We love the combination of strategy and history, merged with ever evolving gameplay and increasingly great graphics. The Total War series has been one of our favorites. We are excited to be able to offer you the latest title, Total War: Attila, as a Gold Member package.   In 2016 we are gettin

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 25, 2015

During today’s TwitchCon keynote, CEO Emmett Shear announced a major change to the platform: soon users will be able to upload pre-edited video to their channels.  We are looking forward to watching the war between them and YouTube. Also announced was a viewing app coming for PlayStation 4 next month and Playstation 3 and Vita soon to follow.  The app, which gives PlayStation users the ability to watch any stream

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 24, 2015

At today’s Oculus Connect 2, Palmer Luckey announced that the Windows 10 version of Minecraft will be compatible with the Oculus Rift headset.  There aren’t many details as yet - the deal was apparently only confirmed early this morning.  What we have been told is that the game will be available some time in spring 2016.  The consumer version of the Rift hits retail shelves at some point in 'Q1' but no official

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 23, 2015

Iron Fish is a horror-action game for those of us who grew up with the vision of an angler fish swimming in their back of their minds whenever they approached an ocean.  The player takes on the roll of Cerys, a deep sea investigator for an elite British Naval group who has access to all sorts of great technology that was made for the exploration of the 5% of the ocean we have seen.  Iron Fish will be released for PC via Steam some

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 23, 2015

Today Capcom announced that Mega Man Legends, the classic PS1 game, will be available in the PlayStation store next Tuesday, September 29th.  This rerelease will be playable on PlayStation 3 and Vita.

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 21, 2015

In the spirit of Max’s birthday, Dontnod Entertainment decided to announce the projected release date for Life is Strange: Episode 5, Polarized.  They are “aiming to release” on October 20th.  This is a little longer than players have been waiting in between previous episodes - there is extra care being taken with the finale. Life is Strange follows Max, an 18 year old photography student who has gained the ability

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 18, 2015

Only a week after the first big patch for Rocket League, developer Psyonix has announced plans for the second DLC release.  Looking back fondly on their previous “football-game-without-feet,” Supersonic Actrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars, the team put together the Revenge of the Battle-Cars DLC that will be available in October.  No exact date as yet. From their Steam announcement: Revenge of the Battle-Cars has a

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 17, 2015

In 2009 after the success of his first game, Braid, Jonathan Blow announced that his next game, The Witness, would be released ‘Christmas 2011’. Blow told Polygon: "I thought it was going to be a much smaller game at the time, so when I announced it.  Of course, the reaction on the internet was, ‘Oh my god, that's so far in the future. Why are they even bothering announcing it two years ahead of time?' Now

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 15, 2015

Riot Games, makers of League of Legends, announced their newest champion today - Kindred, the Eternal Hunters.  These marksmen are are fragile but powerful and designed for life in the jungle.   From Riot Games:  Kindred prowls through camps, marking enemy champions for death and permanently growing in strength if they’re able to carry out the promised sentence. But just as Kindred brings death, so can they delay it.

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 14, 2015

StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, the standalone expansion pack that is the third and final part of the StarCraft II trilogy got a release date and cinematic trailer yesterday at the WCS Season 3 finals in Krakow.  Legacy of the Void will be available on November 10th. The StarCraft II trilogy revolves around three species: the Terrans, human exiles; the Zerg, a super-species of assimilated life forms; and the Protoss, an advanced spec

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 11, 2015

Super Mario Maker released today with a patch available to remove the item-unlock delay. There has been a lot of commentary on the nine day, five minutes a day regimen required to unlock all of the items and it seems that Nintendo listened.  There aren’t any details on exactly what the requirements are to unlock everything.  Players say the unlocked content becomes available if you wait between fifteen minutes and two hours.&nb

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 10, 2015

Inkle Studios announced today that 80 Days, their award winning interactive fiction game previously only available on mobile devices, has been rebuilt “from the ground up” in collaboration with Cambridge-based studio Cape Guy.  The game will be available on September 29th on Steam, GoG and Humble. 80 Days is loosely based on Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days.  The player controls Phileas Fogg&rsquo

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 09, 2015

Hearts of Stone, the first expansion to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be released on October 13th.  This adds over 10 hours of gameplay, introduces new characters, monsters, “unique romance” and a new storyline shaped by your choices.  There is also a brand new system of Runewords that significantly affect different aspects of in-game mechanics.  These allow players to experiment with various tactics and strategies.

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 08, 2015

Sega announced a new expansion for Total War: Attila today titled The Empire of Sand Culture Pack.  This paid expansion adds three playable factions: Aksum, Himyar, and the Tanukhids.  From Matty on the Total War blog: Hailing from the harsh deserts of Africa and the Middle East, these factions are part of the new Desert Kingdoms cultural group, they bring new campaign and horde gameplay mechanics, events, enhanced religion feature

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 07, 2015

In an interview with Eurogamer, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that Pikmin 4 is in development and more than that, is “very close to completion.”  He didn’t give any details on when we can expect to see the game or what console it would be on. The last game in the series, Pikmin 3, was released for Wii U in 2013.  Previous titles were released for the GameCube in 2001 and 2004.  You play astronaut

Posted By: Melissa - September 04, 2015

Have you noticed how excited we are for Total War: Warhammer?   For the past 15 years, the Total War franchise has brought ancient and medieval war strategy into our homes, passing hours upon hours of my own awkward teen time and helping keep some of us out of too much trouble in college.  As if we weren’t already eagerly waiting for the next installment to come out - they combine with the prolific fantasy table top game t

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 03, 2015

The British Forces, the third expansion of RTS Company of Heroes 2, released today on Steam.  This adds 15 new units, 8 maps, 6 commanders and new abilities.  The British Army also has a radically different playing style than other forces as the gameplay was heavily influenced by the real life tactics employed by Churchill’s soldiers. As per normal with Relic’s releases, this is a standalone expansion.  Unlike o

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 02, 2015

In case you somehow missed it - Mad Max, the open-world action game based on the recent movie Mad Max: Fury Road was released yesterday.  We enjoyed the film and have been wondering how many days we might lose to Wasteland.  While our team has always loved the genre this game falls in, the addition of vehicular combat has had us eagerly waiting for our chance to drive through the desert looking for digital trouble. The reviews have b

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - September 01, 2015

Today on their blog, EA announced the Star Wars Battlefront Beta will be coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Origin for PC very soon.  From the Star Wars Battlefront news page:  Coming early October to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and on Origin for PC, the Star Wars Battlefront Beta* is a technical test and will feature Walker Assault on Hoth, a 40-player multiplayer battle featuring Rebels and the Empire. Walker Assault will also g

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - August 31, 2015

According to the PlayStation Blog, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End will be released March 18, 2016. There will be two physical versions of the game availabe:  The Special Edition          Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Blu-ray disc         Collectible steelbook case designed by Alexander “That Kid Who Draws” Iaccarino