Happy Hitman Holiday Episode 1 Free For Everyone (Paris)

Posted By: GamerDating - December 14, 2017

On December 15th, ioi are releasing the Hitman Holiday Pack that will allow anyone on PC, PS4 or Xbox One full access to the full Paris destination. This FREE download will include the first major story mission from the game, ‘Showstopper’, plus all of the Escalation Contracts released for Paris, our ‘Holiday Hoarders’ mission plus the Paris Challenge Packs and achievements/trophies too! It will also allow you

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The Game Awards 2017

Posted By: GamerDating - December 08, 2017

The Game Awards 2017, the fourth event honouring the best video games and their achievements of the year. This year was hosted by Geoff Keighley, best known from GameTrailers TV and G4tv.com.  The event is life-streamed and often criticised for padding out trailers and awards with endless adverts, this year was no different but offered a huge array of awards, funny rants and interviews, even featuring Josef Fares, developer of Tal

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Civilization VI: Rise and Fall Expansion Announced

Posted By: GamerDating - November 30, 2017

Civilisation is one of our favourite series here at GamerDating. Nothing beats setting a new game up, local coop, Friday night and playing with your partner all weekend. Taking breaks for lunches, cuddles and tactics discussion ;) Anton Strenger, Lead Designer of Civilization VI: Rise and Fall shared the overview of the new expansion. The biggest, over-arching goal: dynamic empires. Civilizations will rise and fall through the course of t

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Heat Signature’s Fair Points Update: Reacting To Good Reviews

Posted By: GamerDating - November 23, 2017

Heat Signature, made by two-man dev team Suspicious Developments came out 21st of September 2017. The devs, well followed and liked had made the previous title Gun Point which was also a well-received indie game. Heat Signature took you into space, playing a contractor, fighting for the universe, in space, hijacking ships, assassinating big targets, CEOs and rescuing captured agents. The game features top down views, procedural gener

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StarCraft II is Now Free 2 Play With Patch 4.0

Posted By: GamerDating - November 15, 2017

Starcraft II goes Free-To-Play, bringing one of the best RTS games to your door. I mean, it's very likely you already have it. BUT if you do not, it is an awesome time to hop on and play.  SCII will be giving F2P access to Wings of Liberty campaign, Multiplayer, and some awesome Co-op gameplay, perfect for you game date ;) Beginning November 14, players around the world will get free access to the full award-winning Wings of L

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Blizzcon Overwatch Animated Short, New Hero, and Early Dev Footage

Posted By: GamerDating - November 06, 2017

The weekend saw one of the best animations, awesome eSport event, new awesome hero and some brilliant panels across Blizzcon 2017. While we saw awesome announcements, new World of Warcraft Expansion, Classic Servers to come, Heroes of the Storm Hanzo and new Healer; Moira for Overwatch. Overwatch was one of the fan favourites and the new 7 minute animated short "Honor And Glory" provoked more reactions from the crowds (check it ou

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Total War: WARHAMMER II - Mortal Empires Free DLC Available

Posted By: GamerDating - October 27, 2017

When Creative Assembly, Developers of Total War made TW: Medieval I turned to my friends and exclaimed: "If only they'd team up with Games Workshop and make Warhammer". We all laughed, what a dream that would be. Now, years later, after mods, support, and game accessibility the right people. at some point. got together and heard my pleas.  When they announced Total War: WARHAMMER I eagerly snatched it up. I missed t

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Destiny 2 - PC Launch Information

Posted By: GamerDating - October 17, 2017

Destiny 2 launched last month for consoles and is set to launch next week for PC. PC is going to be able to run Destiny 2 at 4K resolution with an uncapped framerate (if you rig can handle it) and they've released a trailer showcasing some beautiful graphics, check it out below. The beta was a fun little play, and I know a lot of people are excited to get involved. It's been a month since launch, so you can check out some youtub

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Loot Boxes Are Killing Games - The Backlash Begins

Posted By: GamerDating - October 10, 2017

It has been a long time coming with season passes, launch DLC, pre-orders and loot boxes slowly eroding the market and dropping those Triple AAA titles to yet another half-cocked content grab game. Thanks to the Star Wars BattleFront 2 Beta that passed us we saw some horrific Loot Box practices and it started a massive community backlash. OpenCritic announced in a tweet they were taking a stand against these practices, and are looking at in

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Star Wars BattleFront II Open Beta

Posted By: GamerDating - October 03, 2017

Star Wars Battlefront II Restricted Beta kicks off this week in two stages. October 4th for those who have pre-ordered the game, whether they did so online or in-store. It'll go live tomorrow, at the following times: PDT: 1am EDT: 4am BST: 9am CEST: 10am The next stage opens the beta up to everyone else, kicking off on Friday, October 6th at the same times listed above. It’ll run until 09:00 PDT (17:00 BST

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Perfect Profile: How To Improve Your Profile - The Words

Posted By: GamerDating - September 25, 2017

The profile can be one of the most daunting first impression someone will have about you. The photo, the words.  Here are some top tips how to fill out your profile to get the best engagement. First of all, and most importantly, FILL OUT YOUR PROFILE.  Having a blank or near-blank profile is just as bad as not uploading a profile picture. No one is going to try to contact you because no one will know anything about yo

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Nintendo Switch gets Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Posted By: GamerDating - September 14, 2017

Bethesda released in a surprise announcement today. Doom and the upcoming shooter Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is coming to the Nintendo Switch alongside Skyrim. Doom is intended to release this Christmas. Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus will be out late on the Switch in 2018. Bethesda also confirmed the date for Skyrim, which is out on November 17th. Seeing Bethesda turn to the Switch and start releasing games is a mas

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Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Feature Breakdown

Posted By: GamerDating - September 07, 2017

Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series created Stellaris, a mix of grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core. With deep strategic gameplay, masses of alien races and an awesome emergent story, the interstellar exploration as you build your empire across space is brilliant. Now after the success of the initial launch and expansion Utopia, Stellaris boasts the new AI. Ste

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Destiny 2 - New Legends will Rise

Posted By: GamerDating - September 01, 2017

This week we've seen Destiny 2 open beta hit Blizzard Battle Net and opened up to millions of gamers to try out Bungie's follow up to the successful Destiny. Bungie has confirmed the servers go live 6th September, at 12am (of your country).  Bungie also confirmed when Destiny 2's first Nightfall strikes, Raid, and Trials will begin. The Nightfall strikes will be available right away, while the Raid kicks off at 10 AM PT / 1

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Rainbow Six Siege Free Weekend on PC, PS4 and XBone!

Posted By: GamerDating - August 23, 2017

Rainbox Six Siege is a FPS, team tactical shooter where you play a role of agents with all differing skills to rescue hostages, disarm bombs and be bad ass special forces. R6 launched at the end of Decemeber 2015, has had 6 expansions (DLC's) release (free) with the next expansion set to hit very soon. This weekend, PC, PlayStation®4, and Xbox One you will be able to play Rainbow Six Siege, for free!  Hav

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Destiny 2 PC Beta Coming in 2 Weeks

Posted By: GamerDating - August 17, 2017

Destiny 2 PC Beta is just around the corner and you can already pre-order via Blizzard Battle.net Do make sure you are eligible for beta on your Blizzard Batte.net account, and then get ready for the Open Beta hitting at the end of the month. You can pre-order to get in early, but hey, I wouldn't pre-order even if its Blizzard. Destiny 2 Open Beta opens on the 29th August and closes on the 31st, so it's only for the weekend! C

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No Man's Sky Update 1.3 - Atlas Rises!

Posted By: GamerDating - August 11, 2017

It has been a while since Hello Games, Devs of the colossal flop No Man's Sky spoke publicly. First we saw the Pathfinder and Foundation updates earlier in the year but now, on the one year anniversary, we see the latest update. Update 1.3 - Atlas Rises. Atlas Rises brings a brand new and overhauled central storyline, portals, a new procedural mission system, trade improvements, system economics, and multiplayer exploration. Sto

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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands Release 5 Hours Free!

Posted By: GamerDating - August 07, 2017

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands is a military shooter in a massive open world that you can play entirely solo or in four-player co-op. While they claim a unique play experience it is the standard ubisoft open world experience, with a modern military twist with an awesome 4 player coop bolted on. The Free Trial will provide you with full access to the content of the main game until you reach 5 hours of playtime. Once you hit this

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PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Monthly Update 4

Posted By: GamerDating - August 01, 2017

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has been steadily praised, worshipped and already crowned as one of the great Early Access games, with a solid team and developers pushing the game to be great. Their communication, development schedule and acceptance for feedback for future patches has put similar games to shame. Since the launch of Early Access, PUBG has since climbed to the highest played non-valve game on Steam, knocking Fallout 4 fromitss

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TitanFall 2 Coop Horde Mode Live - Operation Frontier Shield

Posted By: GamerDating - July 26, 2017

The latest DLC for Titanfall 2 is now available as FREE DLC. You can download the Operation Frontier Shield pack on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The main focus of Operation Frontier Shield pack is the mode "Frontier Defense", a four-player cooperative horde mode where you and your buddies defend against waves. Frontier Defense is the only way to get a new ranking, Aegis Rank, which can be used to get Titan upgrades. The DLC

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This Navi finally gets her Link - Gaming Couples Cosplay

Posted By: Melissa - July 13, 2015

Growing up, I thought to be or date a gamer girl was simply socially unacceptable.  In direct opposition to what the stereotype of the response to gamer girls claims, all I got was “friend-zoned”.  In high school, I wanted to date and specifically wanted to date a gamer so that I wouldn’t have to worry about all of the traditional date night rigamarole - the nails, the hair, the small talk, the stress of coming up with something interesting to talk about.  

I figured dating a gamer would be like hanging out with the guy friends I was with all the time - except with cuddling.  

I always had an awesome time gaming with my guy friends and occasionally considered what it might be like to be with any of them but they each made it clear that they thought of me as a sister, so I never tried.  Soon after the start of freshman year, what was a few times a week ritual of soda, potato chips and maybe ice cream if we were at certain houses, slowly dwindled to the sporadic invite to a “real party”(when we stood around pretending to have fun with non-gamers, wishing we were playing video games).  When I got to college, the guys around me were almost exclusively playing Halo and there was no possible amount of convincing them that I did actually play video games after my consistent inability with FPSs.  (Still don’t like shooters, but it wasn’t the game - those guys were jerks.  Ah, college)  There were no gamer dating sites and comic con was not even remotely cool to the general public.

By the time Jordan and I first met, I had done a pretty good job of learning to cover my geeky side in public.  It wasn’t until he came over for what I call a party - I cook and we play video games - that he began to grasp the depths of the nerdiness concealed beneath my attempt at a cool exterior.  My boyfriend looks like several of my childhood fantasy crushes because of his long, blond hair and elvish build.  When my friends meet him for the first time there is almost inevitably a joke made about me having a type, followed by some embarrassing story of me being an adolescent far more capable of writing an epic imaginary relationship with Link, Legolas or the middle Hanson brother than convincing a local boy to think of me as something other than the dorky science bowl captain.  Extremely lucky for me, Jordan thinks even some of my more socially awkward moments are cute and has never batted an eye when I emerge from our festival tent in some new concoction of fabric, yarn and glitter. 

That didn’t mean I wasn’t a little nervous about asking him to cosplay Link for Portland Wizard World.  

Jordan and Melissa as Link and Navi with another couple at Portland Wizard World 2015

Like I often do with conversations I am worried about, I spent a few days gathering positive points to help me in case of a debate.  Things like helping me destress with sewing and our friends want to, I even considered pulling the “I work for a gamer website” card.  I’ll be honest with you here gamers, how amazing he would look was my biggest reason but I was sure that it wouldn’t be enough.  Sometimes, I really annoy myself with how much I overthink things.  When I asked, his reaction without blinking was, “that would be fun to do together.” 

The first thing we had to do was decide on which Link we were going to emulate.  After some rummaging around and deciding we didn’t have enough time before ComicCon to make our own weapons, we settled on Ocarina of Time which has tons of ready made replications available.    We purchased a steel and wood sword online for about $30 and found a matching wooden shield.  That sentence makes it sound so simple — in actuality, we spent at least five hours cuddled in front of my laptop to choose the best ones.  With three weeks to go before Wizard World, I figured I could probably pull off a pretty decent Zelda costume but there wouldn’t be much sleep involved.  Jordan pointed out that many of the pictures of Link we were looking at included Navi and my hair was a glowing shade of blue.  In another perfect example of how much Jordan loves me: he easily listed off the costume components I had that would work and asked, “weren’t you looking for an excuse to add to your blue tutu?”

If you have ever worked with glitter tulle, you know this question is loaded with thousands of impossible to exterminate sparkle bugs.  I can’t believe Jordan doesn’t complain more, let alone him suggesting I bring more in.  Best. Boyfriend. EVER.

Melissa took over the living room with costumes

For the next three weeks we spent about every free moment together.  After we finished work, we would hunker down in the living room surrounded by scraps of leather and random vintage patterns I cobbled together to make some of the pieces.  It was some of the most fun we have had together.  Every day there were new opportunities to be impressed by each other and to laugh with if something turned out funky.  It gave us something to do together that wasn’t just the normal stuff and even better, it gave us something tangible that we could accomplish.

The day of our Wizard World was freezing.  Portland gets a pretty early one, I guess they didn’t get the memo that we are kind of weird and are pretty excited about anything a bit on the offbeat.  Lucky for us, the day looked pretty clear and I had saved money for a taxi.  Frankly, I have zero problem wandering the streets of Portland in my faerie wings - there was just no way I was going to deal with the wind in that tutu.  My favorite memory of the day came before we had made it ten minutes in the door.  Walking hand in hand, trying to figure out where to go first, a little boy of maybe 7 years pointed at me, “Hey!  Listen!”  Guys, Ocarina of Time came out in 98.  This kid was about half my age when that game came out.  Parenting - someone is doing it very right.

Well, that or the collective memory of all the women who stopped Jordan to get his picture.  And the many who didn’t bother asking but stood back and attempted to be sly with their phones.  Yes, ladies, this amazing gamer guy is taken, but you can always find your own!  Amazingly enough, gamers come in every way and sort - maybe your game crush cosplayer is looking for you too.

There isn’t a ton that I can say this about, but kid me was right - dating a gamer guy is great.  

As expected, while many of my friends put a lot of pressure on date night, we are just more happy side by side slaying.  I remember the years of dating guys I thought were “so cool”, all the time worrying that I was never going to be cool enough, that my suggestions of things I wanted to do with them were going to be laughed at.  When I stopped trying to date the “best score” and simply allowed a similar minded guy into my life, suddenly I had found what I always knew I needed.

Melissa, Jordan and Lacey at Portland Wizard World

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