March 9, 2022

9Mar

By StuartNo Comments

Streamplify Streaming Kit Review

At Thumb Culture this year, we are looking to bring back more content to our video channels. Whether that be streaming or video content, this could be Twitch, or this could be Youtube. It could quite easily be a mix of both! The awesome team over at Streamplify have sent us some of their newly released streaming equipment to put to the test. Keeping Streaming Affordable And Simple Streamplify is not the word that entered anyone's mouth last year. However, this year with the launch of their range of streaming equipment many gamers are wondering just how much Streamplify could help them. So join me as I take a look at some of what Streamplify have to offer the streaming community in 2022. Overview As mentioned above the team at Streamplify sent us over some kits to check out. But what is...

9Mar

By JasonNo Comments

Hardware & Tech

AnkerWork B600 Video Bar Review

AnkerWork has been at it again. Their R&D department just seems to carry on endlessly seeing how far they can push their tech. Having reviewed the PowerConf C300 in the past, the B600 Video Bar is certainly the beefed-up bigger brother! AnkerWork B600 Video Bar - Beeeeeefcake! Touted as an "all in one" package, can this fulfill all your webcam and conferencing needs? Design The concept of the B600 is to have a peripheral that has everything you could ever want in a webcam. Rather than just a camera, maybe a mic, this unit comes in as a full-blown package, capable of being extremely versatile. Weighing in at a whopping 465g when compared to the C300's 130g, I was a little apprehensive at first due to my monitor bracket being wall mounted on drywall. Ok, the drywall is a coupl...

9Mar

By Tony CNo Comments

News & Updates

Lost Ark hits massive milestone

Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG have announced that Lost Ark has exceeded 20 million users globally. Did anyone inform Noah? The free-to-play fantasy MMOARPG was released in North America, South America and Europe on Feb 11th 2022. In its first 3 days of launch, it garnered over 4.7 million new users. The game remains unavailable in Belgium and Netherlands due to some of the in-game reward systems not meeting legislative criteria in those countries. Lost Ark Milestones The critically acclaimed Massive Multiplayer Online Action Role Playing Game (try saying that 3 times in a row) has an 81 on Metacritic. Was well received in the west and it has steadily grown its player base with over 10 million of its players coming from Australia, North America, South America and Europe. The ...

9Mar

By Tony CNo Comments

News & Updates

New GTAV Next Gen Details

Rockstar has announced some more details about the upcoming next gen versions of GTAV and GTA Online. "I Said Something Nice, Not Expensive." - Trevor Philips Those who have pre-ordered can now pre-load the game so it's ready to jump into for launch. Here's what you can look forward to when the upgraded versions of GTAV and GTA Online arrive on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on March 15th: Visual Upgrades These new versions of the extremely popular game will feature new graphics modes with resolutions up to 4K and frame rates up to 60fps. The graphical enhancements also include improved texture quality, ray tracing and HDR. Players can choose to tailor the experience to their own taste by selecting from one of these graphics settings: Fidelity Mode: Full 4K @ 30fps PS5 & Xbox S...