Author: Patrick
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How to Land a Date for Valentine’s Day, If You’re a Gamer
In just 31 short days another Valentine’s Day will be upon us, and LFGdating is already matching thousands of single gamers together like crazy as the calendar races towards the single biggest day of dating of 2018. The main purpose of this guide isn’t to push you to create a profile here at LFGdating – […]
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2018 Dev Update: Apps, Web, Features, and More
These are my favorite posts of the year – not just because we get to pull the curtain back a bit to show the LFGdating community what we have in store for the upcoming year, but because we get to look back and see just how far we’ve come since our beta. And oh man […]
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The LFGdating iOS App Is Coming
When we began with our web beta back in 2012 and 2013, the thought of gamer dating or a dating site for gamers was largely met with laughter and quick dismissals: after all, this was an online dating niche that contained some gamer dating sites that were more a joke than anything else. But then […]
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Find Your Next Twitch Sponsorship at LFGdating
You might not have noticed it, but as the calendar struck 2017 LFGdating unveiled a brand freakin’ new Twitch Sponsorship program to sponsor as many quality Twitch streamers as we could get our hands on. Looking for quality over quantity, and to create an absolute army (as a Marine it pains me to say that, […]
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Matches, iOS Apps, and New Features Galore
Although it’s been about a quarter since our last formal (blogs are formal, aren’t they?) web development update, PHP and Swift 3 code has been being written basically around the clock since January 1. And yes, you read that correctly – I did say Swift 3, as in Apple’s official iOS mobile app development language. […]
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4 Gamer Stereotypes that LFGdating Has Helped Obliterate
While our core mission at LFGdating is to help gamers find love, obliterating what have now become laughable gamer stereotypes is undoubtedly one of our critical secondary purposes. You know what I’m talking about: the myth of the “gamer girl”, or how only guys play video games; how all we all are overweight and forever […]
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2017 Online Dating Price Guide for Gamers
Does that picture scream George Costanza or what? Sorry, I digress, but you know you thought of Seinfeld – at least you should have if you didn’t. Alright, with Valentine’s Day behind us and dating season in full swing as we head into warmer months, it’s time to roll out our official 2017 Online Dating […]
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26 Things That Will Happen Before Half-Life 3 Finally Gets Made
Back in late 2004 I was into my senior year of college, and reviews of the newly released sequel to the critically acclaimed Half-Life were off the charts as expected. After countless all-nighters studying tearing through HL2’s amazing scenery with easily one of the coolest video game weapons ever created – the gravity gun – […]
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Looking for Group? Welcome to LFGdating
When Casey and I are out and about in IRL and LFGdating comes up, our non-gamer friends and folks we meet sometimes raise an eyebrow with our iconic brand: “LFG? What’s that?” While the gaming community has known what LFG means since the spawn of MMORPG’s, it further confounds our listener when we tell them […]
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19 Nerdy Pick Up Lines for Gamers (Memes Included)
Let me be exquisitely blunt, friends: pick-up lines don’t work. Sure, sometimes you may garner a laugh, but you’ve probably got a better chance beating Contra without the Konami code than landing a phone number with a pick-up line – and NO, if you get one of these numbers it doesn’t count (thanks Buzzfeed!). So […]