Evo 2016 Games Line Up Announced

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 27, 2016

Last night, in an announcement stream on the redbullesports Twitch channel, co-founder of Evo, Joey Cuellar announced the line up of this year’s event and discussed why each of the games was included.  The talk last night confirmed that Street Fighter 5 will be replacing Street Fighter IV - a move which has been hotly debated since the SF5’s release. Also joining the list for the first year is Pokken Tournament, the new Bandai

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Build Your XCOM Skills Before Sequel's Release - Free With Silver Bundle

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 26, 2016

With a sequel coming in less than two weeks, if you haven’t played XCOM: Enemy Unknown, now is a great time to brush up on your turn-based strategy skills. Better yet - you can get the game for free on GamerDating, bundled with a Silver subscription or a Gold subscription AND another silver game. (Might we suggest newly added BioShock Infinite?) Clearly, our team loves video games. We hail from all sectors of the gaming world; PC and con

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FNaF World Pulled From Steam

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 25, 2016

After a tumultuous five days, Scott Cawthon has removed Five Nights at Freddy’s World from Steam and GameJolt. The creator said in a message on Steam that while the overall response to the game is showing ‘very positive,’ gamers who regularly play RPGs were not particularly pleased and he “was not satisfied with the reviews and ratings it was getting.” For that reason, I've decided to remove the game fr

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Two New Characters Announced for Heroes of the Storm

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 21, 2016

Two new characters have been announced for Heroes of the Storm, both hailing from the Diablo universe. Dustin Browder, the game’s director, revealed the additions in an interview with MetaBomb last night. The first was Li Ming, a wizard inspired by Diablo 3. She has three core builds, though of course, players can mix and match to suit their style. Magic Missile “is a good midrange build” according to Browder. The Arcane Orb

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Prison Architect Coming to Consoles

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 20, 2016

Good news console gamers! The developers of Prison Architect have announced that a version for Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4 is on its way for this spring. Each version has been tailored specifically for its platform, with exclusive features designed for the different controllers. We have been watching Prison Architect since it first showed up on Steam Early Access and are very excited the console gamers on the team will have a chance to e

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Pre-Orders for The Witness are Now Open

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 19, 2016

We only have another week to wait for Jonathan Blow’s follow-up to Braid, a massive puzzle game called The Witness for PS4 and PC. Preorders went live today on Steam for $40 and the Humble Store with one of the best pre-order bonuses we have seen yet; Pre-orderers will have the pleasure of getting “the warm and fuzzy feeling” you get when you buy a game early. Blow adds, “it’s exactly the same as buying the game

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PC Gamers Top Most Important Games for PC of All Time

Posted By: GamerDating - January 18, 2016

PCGamer released their Top 50 Most Important Games of All Time. A huge list going from the beginning of gaming in 1962, all the way up to 2015.  Posing questions how games have influenced the gaming world, for good, or worse throughout the years: Imagine PC gaming today without Doom. Would we still be playing first-person shooters? Probably. But who knows what they would look like? Without Doom, an entire decade of gaming would'v

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BioShock Infinite Now Available With 2 Month Subscription

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 15, 2016

Hi Gamers! We’re pretty stoked to be adding another game to our Silver bundles: this one is from a series very close to our hearts. BioShock Infinite is now available as a Silver game. This means you can get it with either a Silver subscription or with a Gold subscription and a second Silver game. What seems like forever ago(it was, in fact, six years ago) a proud gamer named James met a closet gamer named Melissa at university. He

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Five Nights at Freddy's RPG Gets Release Date

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 14, 2016

In a short and sweet update post to the Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 Steam page, Scott Cawthon gave fans a date for the release of the latest in the franchise, an RPG called FNaF World. On February 19th, PC gamers will be let in to Freddy’s world. Android and iPhone versions will release “in the following weeks.” From Cawthon’s September 15th post,  It's very important for me to say again that there wil

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Total War: Attila Available with Gold Bundle on GamerDating

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 13, 2016

At least one title in the Total War series is on every member of the GamerDating team’s list of awesome games.  Maybe you’ve noticed our excitement over Total War: Warhammer? We love the combination of strategy and history, merged with ever-evolving gameplay and increasingly great graphics. If you haven’t had a chance to explore these fantastic strategy games, perhaps now is the time! We are excited to be able to offer y

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Release Day Review: Pocket Mortys

Posted By: Melissa - January 13, 2016

Hi Gamers! We don’t usually spend a lot of time on mobile games, but when the majority of the team is excited for a release, it is more than worthy of a mention.  Adult Swim Games released Pocket Mortys today, a day earlier than expected. It was pretty adorable, their Twitter profile polled followers about the change and, of course, the overwhelming response was “YES”. I downloaded the game and played for about an hou

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EA Announces PC Subscription

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 12, 2016

EA has announced an extension to Origin - a subscription service, called Origin Access.  You may be familiar with EA Access, the subscription for Xbox One. This is essentially the PC version. Members can play a library of games for their $4.99/month subscription, as well as recieve a 10% discount on Origin Store purchases and pre-release access to upcoming EA titles.  The Vault is starting with 15 games, including some exclus

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Gamers Raise Over $1.2 MILLION for Cancer Research

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 11, 2016

Another Awesome Games Done Quick event has wrapped up, this one bringing in at least $1.2 million dollars for the Prevent Cancer Foundation from 30,575 donations. The largest was over $18k which is amazing enough on its own, but what really warms our hears is the just under $40 average per person. We love seeing things like this as Gamers support several gaming marathons for charity throughout the year, and Games Done Quick’s bi-annual even

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Scam Alert! Fake Minecraft App Found in Apple App Store

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 07, 2016

Late last night, Reddit user verynayce brought Minecraft II, a mobile app available on iOS, to the attention of the /r/gaming subreddit. This app claims to be the sequel to the wildly popular and currently first place app, Minecraft: Pocket Edition. It lists for the same price, $10.99 in the US, and is somehow all the way up at number four on the Top Charts despite a one star rating and clear reviews that say this is a scam. The app isn’

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Riot Releases Trailer For New Hero

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 06, 2016

We thought Riot Games had finally stopped teasing. We thought that when they released a video of their newest champion, it was a minute and some odd seconds before we knew more about what we have been being stoke up about. Not so much. It is beautiful, intriguing and devoid of details.. The video, titled “Mind of a Virtuoso”, plays more like what we would guess mixing every psychedelic looks like than the typical hero i

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The White March Part 2 Release Date Announced

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 05, 2016

Obsidian Entertainment and Paradox Interactive announced that the second expansion for Pillars of Eternity, The White March Part 2, will be released on February 16th. That is a little bit of a delay, it was planned for the end of January, but with the date only being a tad over a month away, we are willing to forgive them. The trailer, released today on Paradox Interactive's YouTube channel, gives us only a little glimpse of the game's de

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Oculus Announces The Rift Pre-Order

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - January 04, 2016

Ever since the approach of Back to the Future Day (October 21, 2015 in case you haven’t watched that film franchise a million times) the jokes about the differences between our reality and the movie’s idea of where we would be by now have been flying. While we are still waiting for our hover boards (and please please please let there never be a Jaws 19), at least gamers can be assured that we are finally going to see virtual real

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Valve Addresses The Christmas Day Issue

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 30, 2015

On Christmas day, a ton of Steam users logged on to the platform and found other people’s personal information displayed. It has taken five days for Valve to to make a statement and we have seen many people more upset about the lag time than the effects of the attack. We've never been through something on that scale, but we are sure it is a massive pain in the side and urge everyone ot have a little bit of Christmas spirit toward Valve.

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Two New Characters Announced for Battleborn

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 29, 2015

IGN had the pleasure of introducing two more characters for the upcoming first-person shooter Battleborn by Gearbox Software today and they are both integral parts of the game’s story. According to Creative Director Randy Varnell, the earned characters get unlocked “pretty quickly”. “We want you to encounter them first interacting with you about the story, then later you get to unlock them and make them your own.&rdqu

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Free DLC for Splatoon Coming Tonight

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 28, 2015

Earlier today, Nintendo announced via Twitter that they are releasing new DLC for Splatoon this evening. A new map called Piranha Plant will be available after 7 pm PST/10 pm EST (3 am GMT for our European friends).  This new map is expected to be one of the last pieces of DLC for Splatoon. Earlier this month, co-director Yusuke Amano told Game Informer that the free DLC campaign for the game will fun until January 2016 and there aren&rsq

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Emotional Intelligence and Gaming

Posted By: Silja - July 11, 2018

Emotional Intelligence – the Secret Formula of a Successful Relationship

Emotions aren’t talked a lot about in game, it’s a toughy. Games are mostly competitive, but even co-op at times can become heated right? Ever wondered why some people react differently compared to others? How about why you were totally level headed in one situation, while your co-op partner lost it?

Hopefully this short read will give you some insight, its a little talked about topic but a profound one.

We have known for some time now that emotional intelligence profoundly affects all aspects of our life, and for anyone who games, controlling that urge to rage at your team you already know often makes the difference between success and failure. In gaming this is known as morale. In love this is known as respect. Research showed that people with high emotional intelligence (EQ) have better job performance, and if you’re trying to co-op successfully that means you too, and develop more successful relationships. In other words, emotional intelligence is the secret formula of thriving relationships and a successful life in and out of game.
 

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Maybe you could find someone who doesn't bring witches into multiple choice conversations, but you can decide which is best for you (ha).

You may have come across highly successful people who weren’t necessarily the smartest ones you have ever met. On the opposite, some people may have extremely high IQ and yet fail both in their relationships and at work.

What is Emotional Intelligence?

According to the most common definition of emotional intelligence, EQ reflects our ability to recognize, understand, and manage our own and other people’s emotions. High EQ increases your awareness of your feelings and how your feelings affect other people. In addition, being emotionally intelligent means that you can understand and predict other people’s emotional reactions and answer them appropriately - whether that means, support, stepping back, or stepping up.

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Sometimes you've just gotta pick the healer (no offense to all the actual healers out there, you're doing stirling work).

What Makes our EQ so Powerful?

Being smart about feelings can help a relationship thrive. It can also benefit your professional success. Finally, high EQ can help you walk through life more confident, more composed, and happier. But what is the secret of high EQ and can you boost your EQ skills? Totally.

Emotional intelligence is commonly described by the following attributes:

Self-awareness

Self management

Empathy (social awareness)

Relationship management

 

Polishing these skills might be your secret formula for relationship success, lets discuss them more below.

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Basically do exactly what gamer wolf girl says...(lol).

Self-awareness

To be self-aware means that you have a good understanding of your emotions. It also means that you know very well what your strengths and weaknesses are – you are able to recognize when you are right but also ready to admit when you make a mistake. Furthermore, highly developed self-awareness enables you to clearly understand and process how a certain situation makes you feel. But not only that. To be emotionally aware also means you can successfully recognize and acknowledge your partner’s feelings and reactions.

Self-management

Self-regulation or self-management describes your ability to manage your emotions. Advanced self-management means that your self-regulation is excellent, that you can connect emotions and then apply them to reach your goals, and that you can successfully influence other people’s feelings.

What does this mean in a relationship?

Our ability to regulate our feelings strongly affects our relationships. Research shows that relationships benefit from our self-regulatory strength. If your conscientiousness is high, which means that you can successfully direct your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors towards reaching your goals you will have a greater life satisfaction and more successful relationships.

How? Firstly, self-regulation means your ability to act towards achieving your long-term interests and deepest needs, and secondly, it represents your ability to calm yourself down when you are upset. It also means your ability to communicate constructively and successfully solve conflicts.  In other words, emotional regulation helps avoid conflicts, communicate positively, create more enjoyable interactions, and make deeper bond in your relationship.

Empathy

Awareness and understanding of your partner’s feelings allow you to use this acceptance to interact with your partner more positively. Recognizing how your partner is feeling leads to emotional resonance – feeling what your partner is feeling. Likewise, being empathetic means that you are fully mindful of your partner’s feelings in the existing moment – recognizing those feelings, acknowledging them, and feeling them without judgment.

Furthermore, being empathetic also means that you will be able to catch your partner’s bids for emotional connection on time and turn toward them. According to Dr. Gottman’s research, turning towards each other’s emotional bids is essential for lasting, successful relationships.

Relationship Management

Mastering your relationship management skill will help you bond with your partner and nurture a healthy relationship. This skill includes your ability to understand your own and your partner’s verbal, and, more importantly, non-verbal communication – gestures and body language. In addition, a good relationship management helps you communicate clearly, listen actively, inspire your partner, and manage conflicts effectively.

Understanding your emotions and how to control them, enables you to understand how others are feeling as well. This gives you the opportunity to improve your communication and develop stronger, meaningful relationships.

How to Enhance your Emotional Intelligence

Our EQ skills are definitely something that we can master. Here are a few tips on how to enhance our emotional intelligence.

Practice Mindfulness

The practice of purposely focusing your attention on the present moment without any judgment can help you shift your attention from your thoughts toward a gratitude for the moment. Mindfulness helps you stay present at the moment, relax, and focus on your feelings. Additionally, mindful exercise makes you more self-aware and boosts your social awareness.

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Stay peaceful and GL HF.

Silja

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