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Finally, A Dating Site For Us?

UK-based publisher launches dating site aimed at game players.

By Jeff Gerstmann  |  Jan. 20, 2009

Future Publishing has a little something for everyone. Want to get your highbrow British game writing on? You should probably spring for a subscription to Edge. Want all the top MMO stories, as voted on by users? There's Massive Blips. But what if you're tired of reading all of Future's publications and websites by yourself? Well, they've got your back there, too, as they've gone ahead and launched a dating site specifically targeting people who play video games.

The site's called Game 4-A-Date, and it's set up to help you "find that someone special who shares a zeal for games." That's almost totally ridiculous for a number of reasons, the chief one being that females who openly play games are probably already inundated by hundreds of ham-fisted requests for dates, friendship, and/or sex from a bunch of guys who never bothered to learn the right set of social skills. I can't imagine a dating site focused on people who play games will help those poor girls weed out the crazies unless the girls are simply after the low-hanging fruit of guys who think it's "so hot" that they play games. But those girls wouldn't need to go pay for a dating site. They should just go register a MySpace account like everyone else. Either way, this raises my annoying and self-righteous "indignant disgust when people who play games are lumped together unfavorably" ire.

This actually looks more like a partnership or some other sort of weird affiliate deal than a full-on Future site launch. Clicking beyond the "Game 4-A-Date" homepage takes you to a page hosted on WhiteLabelDating.com, which boasts that it "provides the dating software, membership database, payment processing, customer support, hosting infrastructure, tax processing and much more. You provide your brand, website design and marketing and we do the rest."

Hey, that means we could all just go start our own dating sites! They say they can set one up in minutes! Here, I'll post my own dating site profile here so we can all get inspired. Let's go find some LOVE, people.

HEY LADIES LET'S DO THIS
HEY LADIES LET'S DO THIS
Me:

NAME: [PDA] Sn1p3rk1lla420NYC
AGE: 33
STATUS: Single
DRINK: Y
SMOKE: N
GENRES: Anything that isn't team sports, I guess?
RELIGION: Whatevs
PLATFORMS: All
POLITICAL VIEWS: I vote for no pants.

What I'm Looking For:

A female between the ages of 18 and 80.
Must love Points.
Should be way totally awesome.
Felons OK!
119 Comments
Meltbrainon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:14 p.m.
Hahahahahaha.
insanejedion Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:15 p.m.
Damn Jeff! You look hot!
snide staff on Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:15 p.m.
Dude, wtf, they totally beat us to the punch developing this one. All those months of work down the drain!
Smallville123on Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:15 p.m.
Jeff you such a ladykilla!
RHCPfan24on Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:16 p.m.
Hilarious post Jeff. The motion blur in that photo is totally smexy. 
JJOR64on Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:16 p.m.
Female that's 80?  I have lost faith in you Jeff.   lol j/k   NO PANTS FTW!
JackiJinxon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:17 p.m.
FELONS OK!

Then do *I* know the lady for you...wait, are kids OK? =P

This reminds me of www.soulgeek.com

I'm done with internet dating. DONE. DONE DONE DONE!

*checks out link anyhow*
RawSharkon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:18 p.m.
Fucking Future. Fuck them. And fuck Edge. Pretentious bullcrap. Now they try and lump us all together as being unable to socialise?

As almost-correct as they are, this still makes me RAEG!
MrMiyagion Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:19 p.m.
LOL'D
Kontrapunkton Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:19 p.m.
Jeff, we love you and damn the UK's putting Dave out of a job.
Meteoraon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:19 p.m.
Lookin' good Jeff! Show those cats how it's done!
bshirkon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:20 p.m.
Jeff, I'll hook you up with an 80 yr old.  My friend's grandma is available.
DauntlessFinchon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:21 p.m.
Well, I dunno if my Fable wives would agree with this, I mean I have my bigamist achievement and all already.
 I don't  think its worth it.
Scooperon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:22 p.m.
I'd tap that.
RVonEon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:24 p.m.
Awesome post. Your dating name is hilarious.
lodar011on Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:25 p.m.
I love how his picture is just a random picture of him walking up the stairs
Cheapozon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:27 p.m.
PDA CLAN FTD!
(for the date?)
ArbitraryWateron Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:29 p.m.
To quote the excellent Giant Bomb Theme Song by Evan Brass "I would date them If I was a girl!"
Impossibiliumon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:34 p.m.
I'm not falling for that. That's obviously a fake personal ad. Everyone knows that the real online singles are all models. Some are so desperate for boyfriends that they have to post their photo in lots of places under different names.

What a shame. Poor girls.
ZmillAon Jan. 20, 2009 at 5:34 p.m.
Thats actually not a bad picture, gives you a kinda "cool guy" look
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