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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Mushroom Wars 2 Review for Nintendo Switch

Posted By: Alex - July 13, 2018

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Mushroom Wars RTS on Switch

Last week we got our hands on Mushroom Wars 2 for the Nintendo Switch. As one of the only RTS games on Switch we were excited to get our hands on the game and play.

Mushroom Wars 2 has a beautiful art style with some fantastic mushroom-themed characters, pretty loading screens and lovely cut scenes of static images. The game was pulling my heart strings with the stylistically cute character imagery and supporting sound effects and music. I was instantly prepared to get behind the story and lore.

My First Few Hours.

The story fell a bit flat with a basic approach, but this is something I can forgive as it was the gameplay that lifted my hopes high.

Initially I jumped into the campaign, and was met with a lovely tutorial which slowly introduced me to the concepts. I felt the initial levels did the game a disservice, as after my first 12 matches I had still only had a basic introduction to the movement and initial three build types. It was in the twelfth mission where the terrain started to look interesting and I began to develop an understanding of how to employ different building types.

After this I was introduced to Morale and Powers, which rekindled my excitement for the game. Something needed to seperate it from feeling like a simple mobile game and make it feel more like a game with strategy.

Gameplay

The basic concept is simple: you have mushroom people, and your opponent has mushroom people. You capture buildings to generate more mushroom people. Some buildings increase the value of said mushroom people by a percentage, some are turrets that shoot mushroom people, and you have powers which can do unique abilities on a cooldown timer.

It breaks down to a numbers game, where 20 mushroom people will beat up 10 mushroom people, and suffers from a snowball effect, where if you are winning there is no comeback room... unless you employ a sneaky well-timed hero power.  Buildings can be upgraded, abilities and units can be manipulated, and the game quickly melts into quick reactions and attacking and sending hordes of mushrooms to the right place at the right time. I learnt quickly how to react and move about the targeting cursor.

The campaign was fairly interactive, taking me through various battles against the AI, introducing me and allowing me to replay the levels on harder difficulities to earn more stars. The campaign map was a simple road with the occasional branches off for extra tutorials and information. As I mentioned before, It took me 12 missions before I started getting shown more interesting maps and being introduced to more concepts. I think the campaign suffered a little from bloat.

The level types came in three modes: Conquest, where it was about killing everything and capturing everything on the map, Domination, where special buildings were key strategic points, and King of the Hill, where you take mushroom buildings and earn points. First to X points wins.

Another fun part was the crazy maps with "monsters" or "bosses", which changed the battlefield by adding a third-party challenge, such as huge frogs that sat on the map slurping up mushrooms and causing the entire map to suffer attrition. This was a great addition that kept the game fresh and reduced the repetitiveness of play.

The multiplayer mode offered both random matches and ranked play, which quickly revealed to me the tactics, tricks and mind games you could play against your opponent in the form of movement, heroes and planning, such as baiting the enemy to send their shrooms out in a panic reaction while planning a multi swift attack across all buildings.

I thouroughly enjoyed my online matches, but must admit I lost more than I won as I went through my learning process of heroes, abilities and what to expect. You can play 1v1, 1v1v1, 2v2 and free-for-all 4-player. What i enjoyed most was the free-for-all 4-player games where chaos reigned.

Most games rotated around careful planning, building as many mushroom minions as possible and timing an attack to take out a building and expand. As you claim more buildings, you have a larger cap for more minions, which allows you to defend more places at once but also creates a snowball effect to win the game. Get the leverage, win the game.

Each game loads a varied map, and you can jump into games with ease.

Sounds and Graphics

I admit that I love the artwork of this game. I love the beautiful design based on mushrooms and the characters stand out as unique and fun avatars.

The gameplay screen is simplistic and clean. At a glance I can see what I need to know; with a few extra buttons I can see what I need for the game (like numbers and menus). The battlefields, layouts and buildings of different heroes all add a bit more to the world.

The sound effects are fun – they remind me of the early days of playing worms, but with less individual character and sass, and that's okay. The screams and shouts of all my mushrooms marching into war is almost soothing, and the pulsating sounds when you capture buildings make the sound support the gameplay and offer a thematic backdrop without being over-the-top.

The music was fun at first, but like all games when I play, it gets a bit much and, although I loved the music, I did end up turning it off.

Conclusion

Mushroom Wars 2 is a game I'd wholeheartdly recommend. It suffers from its hand-holding introduction and slow exposure to depth, but it charms almost instantly. If you are new to Mushroom Wars, get past the start, enjoy the campaign and prepare for the mind games of multiplayer.

See you on the battlefield!

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