The Final Nintendo Download Update Before Christmas

Posted By: Melissa - December 24, 2015

I know I'm not the only one who has fond memories of tearing into a suspiciously correctly sized box on Christmas to gleefully find a Nintendo console. This year, I'm sure there are thousands of kids doing just as I did on Christmas eve: scoping out the boxes under the tree and just slightly lifting certain shaped ones to check their weight. Since ours is already hooked up to the TV, instead of snooping under the tree, I ge

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Changes Coming to Diablo III Seasons

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 23, 2015

We are sure this comes as a huge surprise to anyone who has seen the site: we love Diablo III. There are a ton of new features coming with this next patch, an entire new zone, several new monsters as well as Set Dungeons amongst other things. This patch will also bring changes to Seasons just in time for the new one to start. For the full details, check out the First Look - Season 5 post on battle.net - we’ll give you the overview below.

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Awesomenauts Announces Expansion Coming Soon

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 22, 2015

Awesomenauts, the 2-D side scrolling MOBA, has announced an update that will be released in early 2016. While the user base of the game is smaller than its free-to-play counterparts, this one is definitely worth a try for anyone who isn’t a habitual MOBA player as well as those who enjoy the typical Dota format. The update will bring three new characters: time-travelling inventor Professor M. Yoolip, hyperbike-riding bounty hunter Chucho

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The Witcher 3 Wins GameSpot GotY

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 22, 2015

Adding another accolade to the long list, CDProjekt Red’s The Witcher 3 was awarded Game of the Year by GameSpot today. The global team of editors take months to collate the tastes, experiences and preferences of the communities they represent. Their final list of the top 25 games of 2015 spans everything from big AAA titles to small but impactful indie games. We explored political turmoil, civil war, supernatural elements, and a vibra

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We Now Have Way More Sympathy for Game Devs

Posted By: Melissa - December 19, 2015

Welcome to all the new members pouring in! First off, thank you to everyone here. This site is the dream of three gamers and it is incredible to share it with all of you. What started as an off-hand idea has bloomed into the work of our every waking moment and we are so grateful you are here. Some of you may have noticed the challenges we have had with our current version. Several members were magically transported to far away lands last mo

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Changes Coming to WoW PvP

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 17, 2015

We WoW fans have been eagerly awaiting the details of the new Legion PvP changes that were teased at BlizzCon. Blizzard put up a massively detailed post on their blog yesterday and while we admit that we were skeptical to begin with (aaaarg, change!), the updates look like they will breathe new life in to what some think is a ailing game. Hopefully, these changes will make it easier for good players who haven’t spent the past decade gatheri

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Halo 5 Update Brings Forge To A New Level

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 16, 2015

Halo 5: Gaurdians players are getting a holiday gift a little early. Today, 343 Industries released a free update for the Xbox One shooter, called The Cartographer’s Gift. This is the second free expansion, it follows Battle of Shadow and Light which was released in November. The Cartographer's Gift adds more maps - both Area and Warzone, new assassinations, new REQs and what we are most excited about: a massive overhaul of Fo

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The Final Announcements for Super Smash Bros Wii U

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 16, 2015

Masahiro Sakurai, Director of the Super Smash Bros. series, hosted the final presentation for the game today, announcing the last two additions to the list of fighters. Once they release, hopefully in February of next year, there will be 58 playable characters and 84 stages.  Corrin, from Fire Emblem Fates was announced first. The tactical role-playing game is due to be released for the 3DS in the west on February 19th. As you can choose

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Unravel Release Date Announced

Posted By: Melissa - December 14, 2015

Swedish studio Coldwood Interactive and EA have finally answered the burning question of release date for Unravel. The game will be released on February 9th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PCs. To celebrate the announcement, they have also released a beautiful story trailer; you can see it here. This is one of my most anticipated games of next year and I don't think I am going to be disappointed.  Unravel is a physic-based puzz

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Microsoft Adds More Support for Xbox Wireless Adapter

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 11, 2015

For those of you who prefer controllers to keyboards, today a is a great day. Finally, Microsoft officially introduced Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 support for the Xbox Wireless Adapter. When the dongle was released in October there was only support for Windows 10 - because loads of us were super keen on that update (and all of the auto ones that would come after), right?  Now that there is support for 7 and 8.1, we don’t mind the $25

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EVE: Valkyrie Announced as Oculus Rift PreOrder Bonus

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 10, 2015

It has been several years since the Oculus Rift was introduced as the next big gaming experience. With still frustratingly few real details about the some time in Q1 release date, new and actually exciting info has been announced. Those who pre-order the device will get EVE: Valkyrie and an Xbox One controller so they can dogfight their way through space without leaving the living room - or your bed, no judgements.  CCP Games, best k

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Elder Scrolls Online F2P Weekend and $1M Giveaway

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 10, 2015

Elder Scrolls Online is free to play this weekend for PC/Mac and Xbox One. Beginning at 8am GMT on Thursday and ending on Monday at 8am GMT, players will have full run of the game. Check out their announcement for details on downloading. PlayStation 4 wasn’t included, but ZeniMax is “working with Sony on a technical solution.” We hope that has something to do with the just announced free PlayStation Plus weekend that just happen

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System Shock 3 Leaked

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 08, 2015

Earlier, on their Facebook, OtherSide Entertainment posted a link to a site: https://othersidetease.com/b645gt.php . Following the link takes you to a mostly black page with only an ominous count down and a glitchy animated ’s’. Of course gamers weren’t going to leave it there and a user at RPGCodex dug into the source code and posted a confirmation of what we all were hoping for: System Shock 3. System Shock and its sequel a

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Minecraft Finally Confirmed for Wii U

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 07, 2015

In a live podcast on Saturday for Nintendo World Report, Damon Baker - Nintendo of America Senior Manager of Licensing and Marketing - teased an announcement coming on Monday. A big announcement. Fans spent the weekend speculating everything from new Super Smash Bros. news to details about the NX.  Today, Nintendo and Mojang announced that despite doubts, Minecraft will be coming to the Wii U as a digital release on the 17th of this month

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The Leaked List of Games Probably Coming to Steam

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 06, 2015

NeoGAF has leaked a list of games possibly coming to Steam. Some were added as potential topics in the Steam Help Desk while others were found through SteamDB. Both are relatively reliable ways of predicting what games are planning to release on the platform. There are some fantastic games on the list, previously only available on console:     •    Everybody's gone to the rapture     

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PlayStation Experience Kicks Off With Exciting Keynote

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 05, 2015

Sony’s second annual PlayStation Experience kicked off with a keynote filed with tons of announcements and trailers. It continues later today with panels from some of the largest franchises on PlayStation such as Uncharted and Call of Duty. Here are the parts of the keynote speech we are most excited about: The new Final Fantasy 7 remake gameplay trailer was shown and it looks fantastic. While we wait for that, the PC port of the

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Amplitude Soundtrack and PS4 Release Date Announced

Posted By: Melissa - December 02, 2015

Today, Sony and Harmonix announced the release date of an updated version of Amplitude. On January 5th, PlayStation 4 owners can get the game through the PlayStation Store for $20. No word yet on the PS3 version. The Kickstarter backed update was originally slated to come out in March of this year and continued to be pushed back as Harmonix added new features. The original is one of my all time favorite games and I can't wait to share this

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Bloodborne Servers Down For Emergency Maintenance

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - December 01, 2015

If you were planning on playing some Bloodborne this week, perhaps trying to climb the leaderboards with your friends in recently added patch: The League -- you are going to have to wait. Sony announced today that the servers are down for “emergency maintenance”. We are currently conducting emergency maintenance on the game servers. The maintenance should be complete within a few days. We will update you again once

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Interactive Loading Screen Patent Expires Friday

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - November 25, 2015

Something great is happening this week. Though, yes, our American team members are pretty stoked to eat their weight in turkey and stuffing, what we are all really excited about this week is the end of US patent 5718632.  While that may read as just a bunch of numbers, the patent they represent has had a profound impact on gamers. Filed on November 27th, 1995 by Namco - this patent stopped all other game devs from including interactive

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New Game From Makers of Retro City Rampage

Posted By: The GamerDating Team - November 25, 2015

PlayStation and Vblank Entertainment announced a sequel to Retro City Rampage today. The 16-bit follow up, called - Shakedown Hawaii - takes place 30 years after the previous game and follows The Player as he is forced out of retirement to save his "neglected corporate empire". There aren't a lot of details in either the blog post or the trailer, but we do know it will release for the PlayStation 4 and Vita and that the first g

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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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