January 2018

BANDAI NAMCO are added to Snakebyte’s GameStore

31Jan

By StuartNo Comments

BANDAI NAMCO are added to Snakebyte’s GameStore

Snakebyte® group, industry leaders in gaming hardware and software solutions, announced today that BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. will be bringing a selection of their legendary gaming catalogue to GameStore™, a new Android® based, gaming subscription service, designed to revolutionise the world of mobile gaming. GameStore offers Android users a new way to enjoy gaming, serving an ever-expanding catalogue of new and retro games, available to play on or offline for a low monthly fee. With no oppressive contract to sign, gamers are free to come and go as they please, all safe in the knowledge that they will never need pay for in-game purchases, be saddled with adverts, or subjected to damaging virus’s or malware. Starting today, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. will be brin...

The C64 Mini Due to Arrive 29th March 2018

31Jan

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

News & Updates

The C64 Mini Due to Arrive 29th March 2018

Retro Games Ltd have unveiled another C64 console to join their two previous consoles. Before the C64 Mini, back in 2016, an IndieGoGo campaign started up for the development of the 64 Computer, a modern recreation of the Commodore C64. It also had the 64 SX, a handheld edition of the Commodore. Fast forward to 2017 and Retro Games Ltd pushed a trailer of the C64 Mini. This is followed after Nintendo's success with the Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES, so there's already a demand for mini versions of consoles.+ The C64 Mini is going to be arriving on the 29th of March 2018. It'll be half the size of the original and have 64 games built into the console. The console supports HDMI with its output coming at 720p in an 4:3 aspect ratio. It has two USB ports with the option of plugging in ...

Nantucket Review – All Aboard to Discover the World

31Jan

By KevinNo Comments

PC Reviews

Nantucket Review – All Aboard to Discover the World

Picaresque Studio bring us Nantucket, a game all about hunting whales. This is the first offering from Picaresque Studios and a niche market seems to have been aimed for. So time to learn some sea shanties and set sail into a voyage of discovery and find out if Nantucket is worth getting on board with, or if it's just the start of a bad limerick. Gameplay Nantucket is a point and click game, so check out the tutorial to see where to point, and where to click. You start out in Nantucket as the captain of a small boat with no crew. The premise of the game is quite simple. Hire a crew, go whaling and sell the spoils. Get rich, get a bigger boat, hire more crew, kill bigger whales, sell more etc... All seems pretty simple, so how have Picaresque Studios made such a simple concept into...

Dragon Ball FighterZ Available for £15 with Limited Time Arcade Fight Stick Controller Deal

30Jan

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

News & Updates

Dragon Ball FighterZ Available for £15 with Limited Time Arcade Fight Stick Controller Deal

Dragon Ball FighterZ is about to get a touch of retro love embedded within itself with a limited time only deal that see's the Arcade Fight Stick being available to purchase with the title. A controller that's set to bring back the classic controller layout to the title. Developer, Arc System Works and Publisher, Bandai Namco, launched their title, Dragon Ball FighterZ this month for the PS4 and Xbox One. The two have teamed up with, Venom to bring a fancy new deal for their lovely looking, Venom Arcade Fight Stick controller that will be available to purchase alongside Dragon Ball FighterZ for a limited time at Argos. The controller originally launched in 2017, and after doing some looking around, the Arcade Fight Stick as a standalone sells for about £50 -or at least according to A...

Accounting Plus PSVR Review – Insanity by the books?

30Jan

By JohnNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Accounting Plus PSVR Review – Insanity by the books?

Accounting + is an updated version of the HTC Vive VR game Accounting from Crows Crows Crows & Squanch Games. Squanch Games was founded back in 2016 by Rick and Morty Co-Creator Justin Roiland. The studio was quoted as saying it’s dedicated to creating “Funny, Imaginative and Story-driven VR Content” When first approaching this title I had read the above information and honestly had no idea what to expect. Having never played the original on the Vive, and never watching Rick & Morty. The questions that instantly came to mind were: Was it a full on VR Game? Was it just a Comedic VR Experience in the style of Rick & Morty? Let’s see what I found out… Gameplay When I first put on the PSVR headset, was greeted by the title screen (as shown above) and saw the ‘Logo N...

29Jan

By StuartNo Comments

Features, PC Reviews

Thumb Culture Retrospective – Prey

For gamers of a certain age, the names Shodan and Xerxes are likely to trigger the urge to smash the nearest computer with a wrench. Long before Amazon’s Alexa was around to remind us to buy toilet roll, the megalomaniacal Artificial Intelligence of System Shock and its sequel ran amok in deep space, causing sleepless nights and the occasional nervous twitch for the players who stood against them. Xerxes did not care about your bathroom essentials; Xerxes wanted to eject you from an airlock and laugh as you crystalized in space. Not only a masterclass in sci-fi survival horror and storytelling, the System Shock games are also the spiritual predecessor to games such as Bioshock, Alien Isolation and Bethesda Softworks’ 2017 blockbuster, Prey. To say that Prey’s creation has been influe...

Railway Empire – A Trip Down Memory Lane

26Jan

By KevinNo Comments

PC Reviews

Railway Empire – A Trip Down Memory Lane

Gaming Minds Studios have brought us a trip into the history of the train and how it transformed North America. The question is, did it make the nation bloom or did it sink into a great depression? I once again tackle a great railroad, but this time from the safety of the owner's office. Railway Empire, here I come. Gameplay Railway Empire is a classic point and click construction game, not a lot can go wrong really. There are a few modes, Campaign, Scenario, Free mode and Sandbox. Start with the campaign as this will guide you through the basics of the game. It's the 1800s and you need to build a successful railroad company. Build stations, build trains, build track. That's the game in a nutshell. Obviously there is more to it than that, I'm just making it sound easy. You need to su...

Razer Thresher 7.1 Review – Is it a cut above the rest?

24Jan

By Stuart2 Comments

Hardware & Tech

Razer Thresher 7.1 Review – Is it a cut above the rest?

After taking the delivery of the Razer Thresher 7.1 Wireless headset I was excited to see what they sounded like. Along with the quick facts on the box promising up to 16 hours of charge, lag-free wireless and a retractable boom mic I was excited. Was my excitement short lived or did Razer deliver a great headset, lets find out Build First off the bat lets talk about the construction. Taking the unit out of the box I was surprised at how light the headset was, compared to my current headset (Turtle Beach Stealth 520) it feels a crazy amount lighter. The construction is mostly plastic, but this doesn't mean that the product feels cheap, quite the opposite in fact. It looks premium, it feels sturdy and I didn't feel that at any time the plastic would snap or shear off. With noise-isolating...

Purrfect Date – Will You Get The Right Pussy?

22Jan

By Kevin1 Comment

PC Reviews

Purrfect Date – Will You Get The Right Pussy?

Bae Team have decided to give a spin on the dating sim by adding furry felines to the agenda. The question is, will Purrfect Date be the cream of the crop, or pussy whipped into oblivion? Gameplay Purrfect Date, as the name suggests is a cat dating simulator. I know what you are thinking, why? Why would anyone create such an experience? Well unfortunately I cannot answer that question without a little time playing with my ....... cats. I started as a human. I chose a name. I wanted to be called Dick Whittington, but that was too long. So Dick began his adventure with the famous Professor Pawpur. Dick gets shown the famous Cat Island and to his tent and then his equipment. Have a drink? Don't have a drink? What drink to have? The sense of realism and decision making was finally upo...

Genital Jousting Review – An Obviously NSFW Article!

18Jan

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PC Reviews

Genital Jousting Review – An Obviously NSFW Article!

Every now and then a game comes out that is just incredibly bizarre. A game that you don’t understand why it is a thing, but it is. Genital Jousting is one of these type of games. Genital Jousting, developed by, Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital, hit Steam as an Early Access title back in November 2016. Originally, players were able to play the title as a penis, with the goal being to penetrate one another, either offline against computer controlled giggle sticks, or Online against other one eyed snakes. 2018 has arrived, and with it we see the story mode being introduced to the title. Gameplay In Genital Jousting’s story, you take control of John. A lonely ding-dong who is looking for a date to join him to his high school reunion. It’s not a long story, and John isn’t ...