Category: Business of Gaming
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Time to Set Up the Booth at Supercon!
South Beach, we haven’t met yet. We’re LFGdating, and it’s so nice to finally be here in person. 20 hours from right now, doors open to the public for the 2016 Florida Supercon. Over 55,000 people are expected to attend. We can’t wait to start our contests, give away free stuff (who doesn’t love free […]
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How LFGdating Started 6 Years Ago
Six and a half years ago, my phone rings. Patrick is calling from his station near a Marine base in Hawaii. “You said you could make a dating site for gamers right?” I didn’t tell you that this call came in late on a Tuesday night. “Yeah. I’ll need your help, but yes – we can do […]
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We Just Landed on CNET Magazine!
CNET Magazine, summer edition, hit the shelves earlier this week. Ian Sherr’s article, Love Match? surveys several niche dating sites, and LFGdating made the cut. The content describes Jaime, a 40-year-old woman who wants to find a man who is more than ok with her playing World of Warcraft 10 plus hours per week. Sherr writes, “Her previous relationship ended […]
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Florida Supercon, Here We Come!
Supercon. That’s the name of it. It’s not ironic. It’s spot on. It’s Supercon! This July, LFGdating will have a booth at the Florida Supercon. Last year, over 51,000 people attended South Beach’s finest comicon, and we’re looking to surpass that number this year. We can’t wait to meet all the lovely folks down in […]
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LFGdating is Gamer Dating – On the Go
Dating someone new may be the single most fun moment in a person’s life. It also may be abject terror. Waiting for a text or a call can be torture. On the other hand, seeing your new person log into your favorite game and say “hi!” is instant euphoria. We’ve all (hopefully!) been there before. […]
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These Scripts Keep Getting Better
We’re filming a commercial this Saturday, and we couldn’t be happier. What we thought would be nerve-wracking and infinitely tough became one of our most fun projects yet: writing a script for our first ever commercial. The first one was good. We laughed a little bit. Then we saw an opening into something greater. The […]
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World of Warcraft Movie Has One Chance to Deliver
We want the upcoming World of Warcraft film to be the bees’ knees. Actually, we want it to deliver more than the final Hobbit installment delivered. The problem, though, isn’t that the film should be great. The problem is that films adapted from video games are a tough sell. Remember Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? […]
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How Much Does a Twitch Streamer Make?
Ah yes, the grand old question that every gamer wonders, because it would undoubtedly be the best job on the planet: how much does a Twitch streamer really make? Just recently I came across a very intriguing blog post from Daniel Fenner, an Australian gamer who not only answered that question, but did it with […]
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How to Make Money on Twitch (with LFG)
Is there anything cooler than Twitch? I mean, except for LFG of course? We don’t think so, and neither do the millions of video game streamers that use the service daily to not only broadcast their favorite video games, but to make money from the hundreds to thousands of people that stream them every time they […]
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New WoW Patch Allows For Deleted Character Resurrection
Okay okay. We get it. We post a lot of World of Warcraft topics. But the game still is entirely relevant today and we’re watching a company deal with a beast much bigger than it ever imagined it being. With an upcoming patch set to download before the WoD expansion, players will be able to […]