GamerDating Patch - Advanced Matchmaking!

Posted By: Alex - June 27, 2019

The Advanced Matchmaking system With our new matchmaking update we have completely refactored the way matches are found, idenfied and presented to you. This was a feature delayed slightly from launch, because we wanted to gauge first: How people were interacting with our old system How many people you want to find every day How often you want to be reminded and emailed about having new matches It turns out, you want to meet as m

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Our June rewards for you

Posted By: GamerDating Team - June 14, 2019

Far Cry 5, Stardew Valley, >observer_, We Happy Few and even more of Borderlands 2 (GOTY edition) because you all love it! It's that time again! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription. With every first subscription you get to select a game, gift cards or games to bundle with your premium access. This month we've added even more games, restocked some popular choices like Borderlands 2 that seem

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GamerDating Updates - June Quality of Life

Posted By: GamerDating Team - June 03, 2019

June Update is here! This last month has been a busy one with our launch on May 1st, we had 15,000 people sign up in the first day alone with a steady increase since and your passion has not been unnoticed.   We have taken all your feedback, suggestions and bug reports to review to increase your quality of life when using GamerDating.com. As usual, each week, we take your feedback, bug reports and suggestions and plug them into our

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“Press F to Kick Door” - Door Kickers: Action Squad Review

Posted By: Craig - May 24, 2019

Door Kickers: Action Squad is what I imagine life would be like as an actual SWAT officer, only with less respawns and not in 2D side scrolling pixel art.   I want to begin by prefacing that I adore 80s action movies, with the bullets flying, blood splattering and explosions…exploding. So you can understand why I relished the opportunity to review Door Kickers for the site. I watched the trailer and it ticked a lot of boxes for

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Be Grateful, Biatch! How gratitude will reprogram your brain.

Posted By: Silja - May 15, 2019

This morning when I lifted my feet out of my bed I immediately cringed at the cold seeping through the window that was cracked open. Raised in Southern California, I’m no friend of the cold, and instantly my mood went from neutral to Minus 2. Grumbling, I headed to the bathroom to discover my partner had used up the toothpaste and not replaced it. Mood drop to Minus 4. In the kitchen I was confronted with the fact that my smoothie ba

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GamerDating will be your Shield!

Posted By: Alex - May 10, 2019

GamerDating's launch is here and above all, we want you to be safe!   We will be your tank class while you take the role of hero, dps and healer as we take the blows from spam/fakes and bots.   When we made GamerDating one of our core missions was to ensure we had a safe, secure and real place for our users.   We didn't want to create a place for avatars to find other avatars, but real people, real gamers.  

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GamerDating LAUNCH and $50K Giveaway!

Posted By: Alex - May 02, 2019

GamerDating is OUT of BETA! After seven years in beta GamerDating.com, the world’s first dating site dedicated to gamers, finally and formally launches on desktop and mobile web! But the development doesn't stop here. We have matchmaking queues, new email systems, game matches, profile updates and, of course, all improvements based from feedback you all sent in <3 Just as we bundle games into our subscription sig

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GamerDating Launch update is live!

Posted By: Alex - April 29, 2019

Introducing GamerDating.com We're so happy you joined us for Beta and finally we're stepping into the light of release land, and wow there were A LOT OF YOU! Here's to our 130thousanth active user on release!   It's been a-long-time, and no one at GamerDating is going to pretend there hasn't been ups and downs with our project to change the nature of relationships in gaming, but this stuff doesn't happen o

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GamerDating Updates Preview - Advanced Matchmaking, emails & activity labels.

Posted By: GamerDating Team - April 22, 2019

Coming Soon - Advanced Matchmaking, Matchmaking emails and new activity labels. This month we intend to roll out our advanced matching making system. After feedback and user suggestions we are pleased to announce that we have nearly finished our improved system to bring you more opportunities to find your special Player 2. Each week we take your feedback, bug reports and suggestions and plug them into our roadmap.   FINDING YOU M

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Warcraft: Orcs and Humans & Warcraft 2 available on GOG

Posted By: Alex - March 29, 2019

Warcraft: Orcs and Humans & Warcraft 2 Battle.net Edition is now available as a bundle on GOG.com (an its DRM-free). As the upcoming 25th anniversary of Warcraft looms, the community murmurs and we see the real-time strategy classics that started it all, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II Battle.net Edition, including both the original Tides of Darkness and the Beyond the Dark Portal expansion is now available, DRM-free over at GOG.

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>Observer_ Review

Posted By: Ryan - March 21, 2019

>observer_ is a cyberpunk marvel built on the little stories of its all too human cast. Told through the eyes of KPD officer Daniel Lazarski (voiced by none other than Rutger Hauer himself), >observer_ is a short horror game drenched in the atmosphere one would expect from the minds behind Layers of Fear. The 8 or so hours it took me to complete the main story (as well as some side cases) raised many questions concerning the nature of hu

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Back 4 Blood: Left 4 Dead Devs return with this spiritual successor

Posted By: GamerDating Team - March 18, 2019

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Turtle Rock Studios today announced Back 4 Blood, from the creators and development team behind Left 4 Dead. Back 4 Blood is designed from the ground-up as an original, premium title and marries the best of what made the co-op zombie shooter so successful with new features and state-of-the-art technology. And yes.... it has PVP! While actual juicy news is limited about Back 4 Blood with no images,

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Popularity killed our email server - Fixed!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - March 14, 2019

Sorry, we had to add this beautiful image from Halo, but we're just so excited about the MCC coming to Steam too! Consider this server report our tribute. Hopefully, we will have our revenge on the covenant for blowing the damn thing up (It wasn't them, we're just a little popular right now - this is great lol). Earlier today our email server clogged up and stopped sending out emails, confirmation emails, notifications and message

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Our March rewards for you

Posted By: GamerDating Team - March 13, 2019

BattleTech, Jurassic World Evolution, War for the Overworld and Company of Heroes 2  to name just a few. It's that time again gamers! Each week we add new games that are available with your subscription. With every first subscription you get to select a game, gift card or games to bundle with your premium access. This month we've added even more games, restocked some popular choices and added a collection of new games across b

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GamerDating Patch 25th February - Anti-Spam and Bot Tools and General Improvements

Posted By: GamerDating Team - February 25, 2019

Spammers, Bots lose with our new anti-spam system. Huge bug fixes roll out for QoL. So far in 2019 we have rolled out a few stealth bug fixes to address reported bugs, but overall we have been working on fighting the spammers and botters. Each week we take your feedback, bug reports and suggestions and plug them into our roadmap. In the last few months we've been in a full war with spammers, and you can read more about our spam war h

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Our February rewards for you

Posted By: GamerDating Team - February 20, 2019

Fallout 4, Post Scriptum, The Bard's Tale: Remastered and Resnarkled, >observer_ (OBSV) and Vampyr to name just a few. It's that time again gamers! Each week we add new games that are available with your subscription. With every first subscription you get to select a game, gift card or games to bundle with your premium access. This month we've added even more games, restocked some popular choices and added a collection of ne

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Mini Metro - Review

Posted By: Ricky - February 06, 2019

Mini Metro is billed as a strategy game and while there might be some strategy involved it plays more like a sometimes frantic puzzle game. With many game modes and a variety of maps this charmingly simple game will provide entertainment for your own train journeys. Visuals The first thing you’ll notice is that Mini Metro is graphically simple; a small pallet of flat colours and icons keep it crisp and clear. At times however the u

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Mages of Mystralia - Review

Posted By: Jennifer - February 01, 2019

Sassy spell books, grumpy mentors, and goblins galore. Welcome to Mystralia! Mages of Mystralia is a bright, colourful single-player adventure, with an engaging story, memorable characters and tricky puzzles that challenge the player to think creatively. Join Zia, a novice mage in a world where magic is outlawed, as she sets out on an epic quest to learn more about her gift and save Mystralia from the forces of evil.   Combining the ta

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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 - Grim Dark Review

Posted By: Dan - January 26, 2019

As a twenty year fan of the Warhammer 40k universe, It was with great pleasure and excitement that I was recently offered the chance to write a review on the upcoming release of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2. Whilst I never had the pleasure of playing the tabletop version of Battlefleet Gothic, the upcoming PC game is, as expected set in the same rich, gritty dark and terrifying universe as the parent tabletop miniature wargame from which it evolv

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Book of Demons - Papercuts and Dungeon Runs - Review

Posted By: Lily - January 18, 2019

Book of Demons, Smarter than the Average ARPG Recently out of early access (December 13th). Book of demons is an interesting take on the hack and slash genre, where equipment, spells and abilities come in the form of upgradable cards that you find as treasure as you progress through the game. This mix of deck building, hack and slash and roguelike elements gives Book of Demons its unique selling point. The story sees yourself, a veteran ad

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Superliminal Review - A puzzle game with vision

Posted By: Ryan - November 09, 2020

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A puzzle game with vision

Superliminal is one of those rare gems: a puzzle game that doesn’t outstay its welcome and leaves its mark in the form of a lasting message. Following the grand tradition of games like Portal that slowly and, more importantly, clearly introduce game mechanics and The Stanley Parable that use narration from external sources to offer a commentary on the world around the player rather than the character, Superliminal is a short, sweet game full of inventive puzzles and crisp visuals.

Superliminal review - stanley parable type game shows here the visual illusion

This corridor is not all it appears to be.

Whilst gaming in general has had a big push towards photo-realism over the last few years, I have yet to play a game where the clarity of graphics and the tone of the art design is as important as it is here. Colours are vivid, but never distracting, the 3D models are smooth and easily readable, and the limited tutorials are delivered via in-world prompts rather than floating text boxes. More impressively, however, is the ability to rebind all of the movement and interaction options to a mouse, keyboard or both, meaning those gamers who may be forced to use one or the other can still experience this great game.

Superliminal puzzle 3D optical illusions offers a great tutorial

Would that all games hide their tutorials as smoothly as this one does.

The separate chapters of the game all feel distinct and the behind-the-scenes areas that you regularly come across are as gloomy and atmospheric as the bright hallways the game sets up to be the intended experience. At no point did I struggle to see what the game wanted me to see; unless, that is, the game WANTED me to search for it. Mazes are hidden in total darkness, only to be revealed when picking up a light source, and doorways are hidden in pure white walls in a design choice that would verge on annoying were it not for the fact that it is used so sparingly. Everything is perfectly lit and laid out for the player to discover (including a handful of hidden areas) and, in a game that relies exclusively on visual puzzles, the absence of a UI (save for the highlighting of held objects) is barely noticed.

Superliminial was also known as Museum of Simulation Technology game

The industrial areas of the game are as much a treat to look at as the sumptuous hallways.

The clarity of the art design extends to the sound as well. The ambient music that plays throughout is the piano equivalent of lo-fi (for younger generations), or lounge music (for older generations), and wonderfully enhances the calm, thoughtful atmosphere of the game. The handful of sound effects used throughout follow the same pattern; they blend perfectly with the world and serve to improve the gameplay experience, rather than detract from it. This is true even of the two voice actors who deliver the story of the game. The audio levels are wonderfully balanced meaning that each word is clearly understood and, thanks to the voice direction/talent, beautifully delivered.

Superliminial Video game review where perspective is everything

Some of the VO can be skipped by ignoring the radios scattered around.

Comprised almost entirely of perspective-based puzzles that involve enlarging/reducing objects (based on where you are in relation to them) in order to weight down a wide variety of buttons, jump over several walls or otherwise find your way through a complex of lovingly-crafted, if eerily empty hallways, Superliminal has no real need of a story. I’m happy that it has one though. As the game goes on, it becomes apparent that something is wrong with the dreamworld you find yourself in (the framing device of the game is a lucid dreaming study) as you are unable to wake up, despite both the VO and environmental clues telling you how to do so. The deeper you dream, the more bizarre the world around you becomes until the end section of the game where everything is pulled together in a beautifully delivered monologue that imparts lessons that will (probably) stick with you long after the game has finished. As the game is so short (I finished it in less than three hours) I cannot really go into the specifics of the story more than this without spoiling anything, but please believe me when I say that it is satisfying and provides a great accompaniment to the striking visuals that the game indulges in as it progresses. I would add, however, that Superliminal doesn’t strive for the philosophical grandness of games like Pneuma: Breath of Life, instead it grounds everything in a sense of realism that is enhanced by the dreamlike puzzles it subjects the player to.

Superliminial game was nominated for "Game, Puzzle" at the NAVGTR Awards

That’s not the best place to keep consumer electronics.

I’ve personally never played a game that executes its puzzles in quite the same way, and I didn’t quite realise how much the perspective of an object can play into how it can be manipulated even after getting through the opening section. On several occasions I found my progress blocked by my own pre-conceived notions of what could, and could not, be used in the area around me or where I could, or could not, go which made working out the solutions a rewarding experience, save for one particular puzzle, the mechanics of which were not as clearly explained as those in the rest of the game. The developers are not above the odd practical joke either and on a few occasions what I thought would be a useful item to interact with, or the path to take, turned out only to be a clever visual illusion. If you have any interest in visual arts and how they can be used to fool the eye, this is almost certainly the game for you.

Superliminial video game uses the forced perspective idea like tourists with the leaning tower of pisa

It took until the second loading screen for me to realise something was weird with the loading screens themselves.

My enjoyment of the puzzles, and the scattered ‘collectibles’ (they serve no purpose save for advancing an achievement tracker), as well as my innate desire to improve upon previous performances will keep me coming back periodically but, if replaying games isn’t your thing, there is only three hours of gameplay here. The in-game achievements do have a few time-based challenges, as well as the aforementioned collectibles, but with such a short, initial completion time, I find it difficult to recommend at the full price of £15.99 (the price on the Epic store at the time of writing) if you aren’t planning on replaying it.

Superliminials tech demo climbed to fast on reddit in 2013, now developed to a full game

A handful of these are hidden throughout the game, as well as the more plentiful fire alarms and fire extinguishers.

I would recommend it, however, if you are a fan of simple and well-executed puzzle games with a great sense of identity. Superliminal is definitely one of those games that will stay with me long after I finish it and keep me coming back for more, if only to find that last collectible or shave a couple of seconds off my time. If you’re looking for complex, mind-bending puzzles or elaborate world building (or even a longer game), you might want to look elsewhere.

This puzzle game has been bundled in with games like Portal

The true horror of this game is the lack of trick hallways where entering one door forces you out of another. This is one of the few examples.

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