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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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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