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Sennheiser Launch The Season Of Giving Charity Program

11Dec

By DanNo Comments

Sennheiser Launch The Season Of Giving Charity Program

Sennheiser has today unveiled its latest charity program The Season Of Giving. This program will see Sennheiser donate large quantities of their special edition GSP 305 gaming headset to 7 charities across the world. In addition to this, Sennheiser has also confirmed that 150 headsets will be donated directly through their own social media channels. This is an initiative designed to spread the joy of gaming, by giving back to those who need it. The charities that Sennheiser are working with are: Special Effect - United Kingdom Child's Play - United States Female Legends and Pink Orange - Sweden Gamer Aid - Australia Your Corps - New Zealand Andreas Jessen, Senior Director, Product Management & Marketing from Sennheiser commented - “The holiday season is the ti...

10Dec

By Dan2 Comments

News & Updates

The Surge 2 – Jericho’s Legacy Gear Pack Now Available

Today, we have had some news that the action-packed RPG the Surge 2 from Deck 13 an Focus Home Interactive has some new content! The highly anticipated game is growing and growing. The new pack is called Jericho’s Legacy Gear Pack. Jericho’s Legacy Gear Pack brings three brand new gear sets to the game. The add on is available as a standalone item on the store or as a part of the season pass. The new pack is out today and is available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The gear pack includes The BEAST Tank Buster, this is for pushing back your enemies. You also have the Kyoko Hacker Suit which gives you extra range on horizontal attacks. And last but not least Jericho's Firetails Mascot, encouraging a block and attack playstyle. Jericho's Legacy Gear Pack is the second maj...

10Dec

By CraigNo Comments

PC Reviews

Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries Review – All Systems Nominal

Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries is a game that I have been waiting for since about 2005. The Mechwarrior series has been all but dead since the last iteration released in 2002, aside from the online multiplayer-only Mechwarrior: Online. There hasn't been a single-player entry in the series since Mechwarrior 4 launched on PC in 2002. Now, finally, Piranha Games is bringing us giant stompy robots in a single-player game. Originally slated for release in December 2018, Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries was met with a slew of delays, pushing it back to December 10th 2019. Now the time is here to hop in our BattleMechs and take on the review. Reactor: Online. Sensors: Online. Weapons: Online. All Systems Nominal. Let's do this, Pilots. Gameplay Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries is a first-person BattleMech...

Steambirds Alliance Review – Bird Rebels Vs The Feline Empire

10Dec

By DanNo Comments

PC Reviews

Steambirds Alliance Review – Bird Rebels Vs The Feline Empire

Have you ever wanted to be a part of an alliance? Now is your chance to partner up with your feathered friends, take to the skies and end the reign of the evil boss Meowza in Steambirds Alliance. The title is brought to you by co-developer of Realm Of The Mad God, Spry fox, and is available for free on the Steam Store. So what are you waiting for? Set the game to download and continue reading! Gameplay Steambirds Alliance is a top-down MMO where you control your chosen aircraft to defeat the enemy armies. The aim of the game is to complete all the missions set (at the local pub in the game). By completing the missions you earn XP and level the aircraft you are using up. Along the way you collect power-ups, upgrades, and matter that you can recycle, all this helps upgrade within the g...

9Dec

By DanNo Comments

News & Updates

2K Announces Newly Formed Studio – Cloud Chamber

2K has made a huge announcement today! They have founded a new wholly-owned game development studio under the Company’s publishing label. The new development studio is called Cloud Chamber. The studio will have a team of collective storytellers over 2 locations. The first will be at 2k’s San Francisco Bay areas HQ in Novato, Cali. Cloud Chamber will also be based in Montreal, Quebec, this will be the first-ever 2K studio opening in Canada. So here comes some even more amazing news for all you gamers! Cloud Chamber has already started to work on the next iteration of a game many of us put hours into. That title is the globally acclaimed Bioshock, however, this will be in development for the next several years. It is safe to say we are looking forward to more information on this as it evo...

AVICII Invector Review – Rhythmic EDM Awesomeness

9Dec

By JasonNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

AVICII Invector Review – Rhythmic EDM Awesomeness

AVICII Invector is a rhythmic action music-based game created by Swedish devs Hello There Games and published by Wired Productions. It is released for Playstation, Xbox and PC on 10th December 2019 and on Nintendo Switch in early 2020. The late artist AVICII (Tim Bergling), was a legend to me when it came to electronic dance music as he brought a very distinct uplifting melody and beat to each song that he created or remixed. His sudden death back in 2018 was gutting not only to his friends and family, but also to his fans around the world. For developer Hello There Games, they were in the middle of creating Avicii Invector with him, with development starting back in 2015. What began as a collaboration has in fact now become a legacy to AVICII. So what was this game they were creat...

Drown Tactile Headphones Preview – Audio Supercharged

9Dec

By StuartNo Comments

Hardware & Tech

Drown Tactile Headphones Preview – Audio Supercharged

While running the site here at Thumb Culture we have been lucky enough to get our hands on some great technology from some of the tippety top companies out there. From headphones to mice, we have sampled a very wide variety of hardware. In general you know kind of what to expect when something new comes onto the desk. Yes, there are different innovative technologies at work, but generally you know how to approach the review. Well, the innovative thinkers over at Drown may have just changed the headset/headphones game completely! Introducing the Drown Tactile Earphones! How are they different, I hear you asking? Well, let me try and explain in the most simplest to understand way. The Drown Tactile Earphones allow a higher level of precision when it comes to locating sounds relative to...

Arizona Sunshine The Damed DLC PSVR Review – I’ll Be Damned!!!

6Dec

By TristanNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Arizona Sunshine The Damed DLC PSVR Review – I’ll Be Damned!!!

New from Vertigo Games and Jaywalkers Interactive comes some further DLC for their Zombie shootem up /survival game Arizona Sunshine. The Damned is the second DLC released for the game and acts as a prequel to both the game itself and the previously released DLC Dead Man. So is this extra slice of Zombie slaying DLC worth a look? Read on to find out..... Gameplay First of all Vertigo Games must be congratulated on a puntactic game title as The Damned takes place, yes you've guessed it, on, in and around a huge hydro-electric dam in the Arizona desert. The game opens with you in the familiar airstream trailer from the main game and The Damned is started by inserting the appropriate named videotape into the VCR. This can be a mission in itself as you need to get to grips with how the c...

Trover Saves the Universe Review – Surreal Space Odyssey

6Dec

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Switch Reviews

Trover Saves the Universe Review – Surreal Space Odyssey

If you’re familiar with Rick and Morty, Accounting or anything else by the extremely talented Justin Roiland, then you know exactly what to expect from Trover Saves the Universe: a crazy nonsensical adventure. As soon as the game starts, a giant Abstainer named Glorkon steals your puppies and inserts them into his eyeballs in order to destroy the universe. As a result of this, you befriend Trover, and together you have the task of hunting down the psychopath in order to save the universe and more importantly, your puppies. From that paragraph alone, you should know whether or not this is the type of game for you. At the forefront of the game is the humour. Trover and the range of bizarre secondary characters’ ad libbing will keep you laughing, chuckling and sniggering through...

5Dec

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Uncategorised

SuperEpic Nintendo Review – Supergood

SuperEpic, developed by Undercoders and published by Numskull games, is an action platformer with strong Metroidvania elements... wait, come back! Yes, Metroidvania games are ten a penny at this point, but SuperEpic innovates with its intriguing "cross-media" features, taking the experience beyond the console. Gameplay SuperEpic is set in an alternate reality in which a greedy company called RegnantCorp, which is literally run by pigs, have brain-washed the world's population into constantly playing terrible, loot-box and microtransaction-ridden games. You play as TanTan, a household object-wielding raccoon who rides atop a llama called Ola. I was initially put off by story of SuperEpic, which I found a bit too memey and ham-fisted (pardon the pun). These reservations melted away...