In Real Life

The Pokemon-Powered Pick-Up Line

Will the Pokemon dating advice ever stop? We can’t recommend this technique, because we don’t know how it turned out. [Via Twitter, Thanks Xris]


May 29, 2010
News

Star Wars: The Old Republic Offers Friendship, Romance

Han had Chewie. Luke had R2-D2. Who will you have by your side as a Companion Character in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic, and will you be able to sleep with them?


March 27, 2010
In Real Life

A Weekend Getaway For A Man And His Xbox

We’ve all thought about it, setting aside an entire weekend to recharge the recently rocky relationship with have with our console of choice… right? Or is that just me and this guy?


October 10, 2009

A Light-Gun Shooter Built For Romance

While we’ve misplaced the video evidence, senior editor Michael McWhertor and I recently pretended to go on a date. For work purposes.


October 14, 2008
Uncategorized

A Proposal Of Marriage… via LBP

A gamer known only as DimmuJed used LBP’s level creation tool to propose to his girlfriend.


July 14, 2008
Uncategorized

Gaming for Love: Finding Love in MMOs

There’s a more or less constant trickle of mainstream articles discussing people ‘finding love in all the wrong places’ — but Tom Francis has a hilarious look at his attempts to play the dating game in MMOs. He tracks his progress in EVE Online, WoW and City of Heroes. The CoH section is my personal favourite, featuring Francis’ trenchcoated character, ‘Manley Power,’ whose bio page read “Power’s two favourite things are commitment and changing himself”.: