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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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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