June 2018

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker Review – You Believe Me, Don’t You?

29Jun

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker Review – You Believe Me, Don’t You?

A FMV murder mystery with a bit of a twist. Are they the insane ones? Is any of this real? Whats really going on? Thrust into a new world by the death of a doctor, can you handle the patient load as things appear to change all around you? Are you sure they are the crazy ones? D'Avekki Studios developed The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, a FMV Lovecraft mystery, back in 2017. FMV, meaning Full Motion Video, where the characters you interact with are real people, its almost like watching a movie that you control the narrative to. You can type out your questions and answers to which there are 1600+ full screen HD responses the characters can use to continue the conversations. This sounds great in theory but I found my self typing multiple questions and phrases just for them to be con...

Can We Loot Box This? – The Fine Art Of Monetization

27Jun

By Alex1 Comment

Features, Gaming

Can We Loot Box This? – The Fine Art Of Monetization

In a world where everything has been monetized by loot boxes is it necessary to just pat the back of a studio for just making a game. When did this become worthy of praise and headlines. How did we get here and how can we go back to just having good games. Well tune in and get ready cause I believe I have the answers you seek. Battlefield V recently announced that it wouldn't have loot boxes or season pass. I had to do a double take because I was sure that the lords of monetization and dumb choices (looking right into your eyes EA) couldn't have let this happen. I mean the FIFA game series literally brings in millions of dollars from their loot box system. EA has systematically destroyed both studios and game series all the while raking in heaps and gobs of money. Now they announce no ...

16Jun

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Features, Gaming, Gaming For All

How Video Games Saved My Life And Helped My Mental Health – The Healing Power Of Gaming

We've heard it time and time again, "Video games make people violent", "Video games aren't a productive use of your time" and "Video games are a negative and angry place". These words are usually spoken by people who don't know a lot about the gaming world, who fear the unknown and adhere to all the misconceptions, typically brought to the world via the media or frustrated parents. All of these words you have undoubtedly heard, couldn't be further from the truth. How do I know that? Well, because I am a gamer and If it wasn't for video games I wouldn't be here talking to you today. In essence, gaming has saved my life and I'm here, thankfully, to tell you why. I would say that throughout my life Ive always been a very sensitive soul, prone to taking matters to heart hence leaving me quite...

Shadow – Does More Power Come With More Problems?

15Jun

By John2 Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Shadow – Does More Power Come With More Problems?

UPDATE: Blade updated something which affects the freezing issue you experienced when the TV was on: Using the beta apps, you can use H265 and greatly reduce bandwidth without affecting quality. Blade also pushed a massive update 3 days ago that vastly improves fluidity. Hey there fellow Gaming Enthusiasts! Any of you that know me know my PC gaming pretty much died out back in the 90’s and I’ve only just started to dip my toes in the water with Steam more recently thanks to being part of this group. This means that my PC equipment itself is a little dated and makes some of the gaming a little frustrating to use with higher-end specs and can be a little more troublesome at times to run at all. Enter Shadow from Blade, the answer to all my problems! Access to more powerful hardware...

Floor Kids Review – Floor Rocking Or Wack?

15Jun

By JasonNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews, Switch Reviews

Floor Kids Review – Floor Rocking Or Wack?

Floor Kids by Canadian based MERJ Media is a break-dancing battle game available on Nintendo Switch and PC with Playstation and Xbox in the near future. Floor Kids lets you learn skills, build a crew and find your style. Are you the next Ashley Banjo? or maybe you fancy yourself as an extra from that Run DMC music video! Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme! Get on up, it's Floor Kids time! Gameplay With a GTA intro style beat playing in the background I was optimistic how Floor Kids would play out. The only dancing games I have ever played have either been down the arcades (back in the day) or behind closed curtains using the Playstation Camera to track my silky movements across the living room floor. The fun and rewarding aspect of your physical movement being in time with the be...

House Flipper PC Review – If Only Housework Was Really This Easy!

12Jun

By John1 Comment

Gaming, PC Reviews

House Flipper PC Review – If Only Housework Was Really This Easy!

House Flipper is a Casual DIY / building sim from Empyrean. Basically you’re a one man renovation machine. Working from doing odd jobs for people who need repairs etc. all the way up to flipping houses for a profit (Guess the title makes sense.. although not going to lie I was imagining flipping houses like burgers, with a giant spatula). The biggest question for me was, Can Virtual house work actually be fun? Let’s find out… Gameplay Let’s be honest, you have to be a pretty ‘special’ person to enjoy doing house work or DIY, I’m sure 99% of people would much rather have someone else do it for them (or else why would house keepers and repairmen have jobs?). Well at the start of House Flipper you’re basically a housekeeper. You need to do odd jobs to earn cash to take on and unlock t...

BenQ EL2870U 28-Inch 4K TN Monitor Review

7Jun

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

BenQ EL2870U 28-Inch 4K TN Monitor Review

As with any maturing technology, 4K monitors are slowly starting to go down in price since they’ve been around for a while now, but 4K monitors that also come with built-in HDR support are still pretty rare, making BenQ’s brand-new EL2870U something of a specialty. Without further ado, let’s see just how good this product, realistically, fairs. About The EL2870U comes as a 28” screen with a 4K TN (Twisted Nematic) panel, boasting HDR, Freesync and a 1ms response time to boot. On top of that there’s a pair of anaemic built-in speakers, a couple of HDMI 2.0 ports, a single DVI 1.4 input and BENQ’s eye care tech for those who spend their life in front of their monitors. In case you aren’t sure what HDR is, this next part is lovingly just for you - HDR, or high dynamic range, is a ...

ROCCAT Vulcan: New Mechanical Keyboard, New Design Story

7Jun

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

News & Updates

ROCCAT Vulcan: New Mechanical Keyboard, New Design Story

Computex, Taipei, 6th June 2018, ROCCAT introduces a brand-new design story with its new Vulcan mechanical keyboard, combining striking aesthetics and powerful mechanics. Featuring the self-developed Titan Switch Tactile, the addition to ROCCAT’s portfolio not only stands out by its appearance, it also offers the most swift and responsive keyboard in ROCCAT’s line-up. “The most important thing about a mechanical keyboard are its switches, we wanted to showcase them” says Andreas Jost, Head of Industrial Design at ROCCAT Studios. Design played a decisive role in the development of the switch, with a transparent housing offering insight on its mechanism in combination with ultra-light keycaps. The Titan Switch Tactile is also the perfect companion for ROCCAT’s latest RGB lighti...

5Jun

By JasonNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Stay Safe Review – Insane In The Membrane!

Stay Safe is a crazily fast 3D futuristic racing game for PC by new French developer Atomic Raccoon. Touting themselves as being "half human and half raccoon" they are pleased to "make pretty hard games based on anarchy and chaos." In terms of hardness, how tricky can a racing game really be? especially when you compare it to today's offerings such as WipeOut where scraping a wall merely leaves you with a slight deceleration to your ship. Well in the words of Rocket Raccoon, "This is frickin' ridiculous!" Gameplay It has been along time since I have played a game so menacing, so frustrating, so ARRRRGGHHHHH!! yet it makes me want to hit that restart key and try the level over and over again. Stay Safe, yeah you just try and do that, is a series of short timed levels where the goa...

4Jun

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Gaming

Vampyr Review – Where Will Your Moral Compass Take You?

How refreshing is it to see something other than zombies in a game? Don’t get me wrong, I love zombies, but a bit like the Battle Royal epidemic that’s taken over the world, you do get a little tired of seeing the same thing all the time, right? I'm pretty sure this is exactly what the developers Don’t Nod (geniuses behind Life is Strange) had in mind, when they created this dark, blood thirsty, RPG – Vampyr. Even with this fairly ‘newer’ concept in games of today, is it actually good and should I spend my hard-working cash on it? That’s why you’re here, after all… Gameplay You wake up in a pit of dead bodies, what do you do? This is the very situation Dr. Jonathan Reid, a well renowned doctor, was faced with as he entered a very different world to which he was previously used ...