Mafia 3 Launch Trailer, 30FPS and Mafia 2 Available with GamerDating

Posted By: GamerDating - October 07, 2016

Mafia III has launched and the series has progressed further along the timeline, now set in 1968 after Vietnam. It follows Lincoln Clay who knows this truth: family isn’t who you’re born with, it’s who you die for. Now back home in New Bordeaux, Lincoln is set on escaping a criminal past. But when his surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and wiped out by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family on th

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Stardew Valley Update 1.1 - The One Man Dev Does It Again

Posted By: GamerDating - October 04, 2016

Stardew Valley is an open ended country life RPG. It involves you, a city character come to the countryside to build up a farm. It features energy management, weather, seasons, relationships and is much more exciting than I've made it sound. You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the

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Amazon Game Studios Reveal Breakaway

Posted By: GamerDating - September 30, 2016

Breakaway is one of three games announced at this pre-TwitchCon reveal by Amazon. The idea behind the games are to incorporate Twitch into games, enabling content creators and broadcasters to interact with their viewers in a unique and supported way. Breakaway is a 4v4 moba with elements of rugby intwined. Multiple characters (Anne Bonny, Spartacus, Black Knight) with unique abilities. These characters are split in

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Minecraft Will Be The First Crossplay Game Between Xbox One And Ps4

Posted By: GamerDating - September 27, 2016

Minecraft has released a nice steady amount of information these last few days. Information about Minecon patch notes on the stream sharing new information on blocks, mobs, items and generation.  In addition the new Minecraft Realms for PC and Mac gives you even more control over your world and how you play and your friends up to 10 people. Start fresh on a brand-new world, upload an existing map, or get inspired by one of ou

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Rocket League Introduce Aquadome!

Posted By: GamerDating - September 22, 2016

Rocket League is at it again, and this October, they are releasing a brand new arena (for free of course) themed around the Ocean at the bottom of the sea. In addition Rocket League are introducing two premium aquatic-themed Battle-Cars, Triton and Proteus (USD $1.99 DLC) which will be available alongside the aquadome release.     Inspired by the seven seas, the creatures beneath the waves, and the machines we use to

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Star Wars Battlefront Death Star Launches Today

Posted By: GamerDating - September 20, 2016

The Death Star Expansion Pack takes the battle to space with a new game mode along with Chewbacca, Bossk and a collection of new weapons and powerups. Today those early DLC earns will have access, 2 weeks before everyone else, to the new DLC including space battles. “That’s no moon!” One of the deadliest weapons in the galaxy makes its debut in the Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Death Star digital expansion. Ta

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My First Date Was a Video Game - Relationship Stories

Posted By: Guest Writer - Emily Toye - September 15, 2016

You know that you’ve struck gold with someone when the first date they take you on is in a video game. I’ve been a gamer for most of my life, discovering new titles and series in the PC gaming area, as well as dabbling in a few console games here and there. Gaming is a big part of my life and it is a goal of mine to work in the gaming music industry. So I thought it would be perfect to have a Player 2 who also had a similar level o

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Battlefield 4 Opens All Expansions for Free - Road to Battlefield 1

Posted By: GamerDating - September 15, 2016

Battlefield™ 1 is coming next month, and DICE have decided to encourage some love by keeping the action going in Battlefield 4™ and Battlefield™ Hardline. For the past few months they've been giving away previously released expansion packs for both games to anyone playing on Xbox One, Xbox 360, Origin for PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 3. There are also new Community Missions and a whole lot more to get ex

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FIFA 17 Demo Release Date

Posted By: GamerDating - September 12, 2016

The EA SPORTS™ FIFA 17 Demo will be released on September 13 on Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC. This will be your first chance to experience The Journey and Own Every Moment with FIFA 17 Gameplay before the game launches on September 27.  You'll be able to experience a live story journey featuring Alex Hunter. The demo will limit your experience to Manchester United. While matches load the demo will feature 4 single

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Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon Will Take Place During Different Times of Day

Posted By: GamerDating - September 07, 2016

Pokémon revealed in the Japanese trailer and following English trailer that Sun and Moon will have towns progressing through the day, evening and night cycle. In addition the Moon and Sun versions of Pokémon will start with adjusted times of 12 hours: The two worlds of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moonare 12 hours apart and are tied to the actual time in real life. Pokémon Sun op

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Eve Online Introduces Free 2 Play Version

Posted By: GamerDating - September 02, 2016

CCP Developers, arguably the best developers of the best sandbox game, Eve Online, have announced a new type of gameplay experience. While not strictly Free 2 Play, the new clone system introduces a limited access game experience.  The full normal subscribed experience is still available and is known as the Omega Clone State. The new limited un-subscribed experience limits you to tech one Frigates, Destroyer and Cruisers allowing a

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Battlefield 1 Open Beta Kicks Off

Posted By: GamerDating - August 30, 2016

Battlefield 1 will be entering an open beta phase on August 31 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Dice has not yet confirmed when the beta will finish. Confirmed on the Battlefield Twitter account earlier today, players on the PS4 won't need a PS Plus subscription. Xbox One players will need to have Xbox Live Gold for multiplayer.  Those who signed up for the free Battlefield Insider program will receive codes to start playing a day e

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Titanfall 2 Developers Respond To Feedback

Posted By: GamerDating - August 25, 2016

Titanfall 2 hit the PS4 and Xbone last weekend as the mutliplayer tech test was released and the criticism just did not stop rolling in. Titans are harder to get, and they aren't as powerful or fun. Taking down Titans isn't as interesting or fun with the tier step approach. The AI soldiers have been removed from most game types, removing that elite feel. The mobility options feel more limited and feel slower due to the map design.&nb

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Rocket League Season 2 Kicking Off - Get In With GamerDating!

Posted By: GamerDating - August 22, 2016

A few weeks ago the first Rocket League Championship Series came to a close with over one million viewers tuning in to watch. The next season is ready to kick off but with new changes and we at GamerDating have you covered. A perfect time to grab Rocket League! Rocket League Season 2 will have a streamlined process. Gone will be the two-split system and the weighted points, and moving to something a little more standard. He

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World of Warcraft 7.1 Legion Patch: Return to Karazhan!

Posted By: GamerDating - August 18, 2016

Gamescon keeps on giving, as livestreamer Slootbag had a small interview with Ion Hazikostas about the first patch for Legion. Patch 7.1 will be titled Return to Karazhan and it will hit the PTR shortly after Legion releases featuring: Karazhan will be a large 5-man dungeon, almost a 5-player raid with 9+ bosses. The old raid will still remain, they do not want to remove that piece of history from the game. A small raid between

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High Bandwidth Servers Rollout In Progress

Posted By: GamerDating - August 15, 2016

Overwatch launched with a very low 21 updates per second, one of the lowest in the FPS competitive scene. Blizzard responded with introducing a custom mode game with 63 updates per second which was met with a fairly good response. Now this has now been announced as the standard for all and will be rolled out over the next few weeks..  In Overwatch, our high bandwidth option adjusts the game’s client update rate (the freq

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Witcher 3 Game of the Year Edition Release Date Announced

Posted By: GamerDating - August 11, 2016

CD Projekt Red has confirmed the release date for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition as 30th August. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Game of the Year edition brings together the base game and all the additional content released to date. Hinting that the package comes with the expansions Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. Also reportedly included in the bundle are the 16 free DLC offerings that CD Projek

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Dota 2 - The International 2016 Starts With $20,000,000 Prize Pool

Posted By: GamerDating - August 09, 2016

Yesterday the main event day 1 kicked off, DOTA 2's main major tournament with daily matches till the 13th August. The International - Main Event is at the Key Arena in Seattle, with a HUGE $20,148,430 prize pool. Meaning the first prize will be taking just under $9.000.000 for the first place spot. Check out the prizepool here. The first BO3 matches yesterday kicked off with OG and MVP Phoneix. The matches are

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Evolve Stage 2 (F2P) Release: Quantum Caira

Posted By: GamerDating - August 04, 2016

Evolve Stage 2 Beta, Free 2 Play was launched and has had a spike of players return as Turtle Rock Studio announce 1 million players jumping on and hunter, or monstering their way to success. While only on PC, Turtle Rock have confirmed that once the beta period is over on the PC, they'll roll out the Free 2 Play version to consoles. A new patch was release today, announcing the patch "Shear Madness: Quantum Caira" T

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Olympic Themed Overwatch Skins

Posted By: GamerDating - August 02, 2016

Olympic themed Overwatch skins were leaked today on Reddit, with a line of text which has sparked questions from all. "There are more than 90 Summer Games items to collect -- they're not available to purchase with in-game credits...Loot Boxes are the only way to get them! The Olympic themed skins are available only for a short period of time, and you can only earn them by opening Loot Boxes, in which you have a random

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Gabe Newell's AMA Round-Up

Posted By: GamerDating - January 18, 2017

Gabe Newell nicknamed Gaben, is master and founder of Valve Corporation. We all know him and we all love the products he gave, Steam, Half-Life, Portal, L4D and DoTA2. Throughout the years Gaben has retained an odd legendary status, becoming a meme with the popularity of Steam and has his own fan made website where he offers sales in the guise of a saint.

Gaben, the voice of valve, came to Reddit and offered to do an AMA after a certain amount of money was raised in a charity he supported.

Here are some of the best questions he addressed, including Portal love, HL3 news, and changes in Steam.

Q: What do you think steam needs to improve?

A: I'm thinking about how machine learning applies to connecting users and content (and users in optimal ways). Support has been a big focus for the last while.

Q: What is your favourite non-valve game of 2016?

A: My co-workers just told me it's Plants vs Zombies, and then they laughed at me.

Q: What sparked your interest in video games?

A: Playing Trek on a mainframe using punch cards.

Q: If you could go back in time, what would you change about Steam?

A: Biggest issue has been how we structured support.

Q: Does Valve have any plans on making customer support better? And did you ever think of making it into live support?

A: Yes! We are continuing to work on improving support.

Since the last AMA, we've introduced refunds on Steam, we've grown our Support staff by roughly 5x, and we've shipped a new help site and ticketing system that makes it easier to get help. We've also greatly reduced response times on most types of support tickets and we think we've improved the quality of responses.

We definitely don't think we're done though. We still need to further improve response times and we are continually working to improve the quality of our responses. We're also working on adding more support staff in regions around the world to offer better native language support and improve response times in various regions.

Q: Do you have any tips for people like myself who want to design games, both independently and with established teams in the industry?

A: The most important thing you can do is to get into an iteration cycle where you can measure the impact of your work, have a hypothesis about how making changes will affect those variables, and ship changes regularly. It doesn't even matter that much what the content is - it's the iteration of hypothesis, changes, and measurement that will make you better at a faster rate than anything else we have seen.

Q: What is your personal favourite Valve game/series?

A: I think Portal 2 is our best single-player game. I play Dota 2 the most of our multiplayer games.

The issue with Half-Life for me is that I was involved in a much higher percentage of the decisions about the games, so it's hard for me to look at them as anything other than a series of things I regret. There's no information in my response about what we'll do in the future. It's simply easier for me to be a fan of things that in which I was less directive.

Q: GabeN, how do you like your steaks?

A: Medium rare

Q: Does Valve plan on doing anything with Source 2 in the coming years? If so, what?

A: We are continuing to use Source 2 as our primary game development environment. Aside from moving Dota 2 to the engine recently, we are are using it as the foundation of some unannounced products. We would like to have everyone working on games here at Valve to eventually be using the same engine. We also intend to continue to make the Source 2 engine work available to the broad developer community as we go, and to make it available free of charge.

Q: Just a question out of curiosity really, but interested in seeing what your view is on the direction that valve as a company should take in the future? Such as what would you like to see the company achieve/what improvements would you like to see valve undergo/what role would you like to see valve serve/undertake in the industry as it evolves etc. and if any, have you made any past decisions that you look back on now that you regret/could've handled differently? 

A: The big thing right now is broadening the range of options we have in creating experiences. We think investing in hardware will give us those options. The knuckles controller is being designed at the same time as we're designing our own VR games.

Much more narrowly, some of us are thinking about some of the AI work that is being hyped right now. Simplistically we have lots of data and compute capability that looks like the kinds of areas where machine learning should work well.

Personally I'm looking at research in brain-computer interfaces.

Q: Are you planning on continuing the Left 4 Dead series?

A: Products are usually the result of an intersection of technology that we think has traction, a group of people who want to work on that, and one of the game properties that feels like a natural playground for that set of technology and design challenges.

When we decided we needed to work on markets, free to play, and user generated content, Team Fortress seemed like the right place to do that. That work ended up informing everything we did in the multiplayer space.

Left 4 Dead is a good place for creating shared narratives.

Q: What is Valve's take on quality control? Does it feel the current state of affairs is good?

A: There's really not a singular definition of quality, and what we've seen is that many different games appeal to different people. So we're trying to support the variety of games that people are interested in playing. We know we still have more work to do in filtering those games so the right games show up to the right customers.

Q: What is the status of Half Life 3/Half Life 2 Episode 3?

A: The number 3 must not be said.

Q: Is Valve still working on any fully-fledged single player games?

A: Yes

Q: An unidentified anonymous source at Valve has said that Half Life 3 has been cancelled. Is that source legitimate?

A: I personally believe all unidentified anonymous sources on the Internet.

Q: Why does Valve not talk to its community about the games/apps its developing as much as other companies?

A: We prefer to communicate through our products. We are all pretty devoted to reading and listening to the community - everyone here believes it is an integral part of their job to do so. And when it comes time to respond, we generally use Steam - shipping updates that address issues or add functionality. Obviously this doesn't work for everything. Working this way imposes latency on our communication - it takes longer to ship and update than to do a blog post. This can lead to the feeling of an echo chamber, where it seems like Valve isn't listening. We’re always listening. So sometimes the latency is rough for everyone, including us when we want to address issues quickly. On balance we think it's usually worth the trade-off.

Q: Any chance of a new IP that takes place in the half-life/portal universe?

A: Yep

Q: The question I want to ask: Why Steam Flash Sales is not part of the Steam store anymore?

A: We found that really short discounts made it difficult for many people to participate. By removing the flash sales, users can count on finding the best deals whenever they are able to visit the store during the sale.

So in round up, new IP coming based in the Half-Life/Portal universe, Steam support improvements, fantastic answers how to approach development and VR coming.

You can read the entire AMA over at Reddit.

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