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Le Tour De France 2017 Review – Cycling Got Tactical

19Jun

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Le Tour De France 2017 Review – Cycling Got Tactical

Le Tour de France 2017 is developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive and attempts to bring the excitement of the event to consoles. Having never played a Tour De France game before I was intrigued to see what the appeal was. I mean they release them pretty much every year so somebody is buying them somewhere. If you are unaware of this annual cycling event then you probably aren't reading this review, but for those of you who want to know, let's get stuck in. The Tour de France is an annual multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. The race was first organized in 1903 to increase sales for the newspaper L'Auto; which is currently run by the Amaury Sport Organisation. The race has been held...

Conan Exiles Hits Xbox One On August 16th

14Jun

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News & Updates

Conan Exiles Hits Xbox One On August 16th

With E3 in full swing, how about something a bit different. Conan Exiles by Funcom is hitting Xbox One users with its flacid members on August 16th. Along with its expansion pack due out the very same day. Conan Exiles is a survival game and quickly became a hit amongst the genre's fans. Selling almost half a million units in its first month. In the game you get to build anything you dream from small homes in the countryside to giant cities. Team up with other plays, or take them on in the brutal combat. Check out a few screenshots as well as a teaser trailer for the upcoming expansion pack. Disclaimer: A code was received in order to write this review. YouTube | FaceBook | Twitter | Instagram| Twitch | Discord | Podcast

Marvel Heroes Omega Releases on Xbox One

9Jun

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News & Updates

Marvel Heroes Omega Releases on Xbox One

Marvel Heroes Omega is getting released on the Xbox One on 30th June as opposed to the previously announced release date of the 20th June. Offered as a free download, Marvel Heroes Omega combines the core gameplay of action-RPGs and MMOs with an expansive library of heroes from the Marvel Universe. Take on the role of your favorite characters, including Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Defenders, the Inhumans, the X-Men, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and more! With thousands of hours of character progression, hundreds of costumes, and an ever-growing roster of playable heroes and rewards, Marvel Heroes Omega comes packed with tons of replay value and a steady stream of new challenges coming in regular updates. Along with the release of the free to play game, there are Founders Packs whic...

Farming Simulator 18 Review – Now Then That’s A Fine Looking Tractor

6Jun

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PlayStation Reviews

Farming Simulator 18 Review – Now Then That’s A Fine Looking Tractor

Farming Simulator 18 hits the handheld market this week, this review in particular focuses on the PS Vita. Released by Giants Software the game brings a scaled down version of last years release. However with the scaled down version it leaves a couple of features out. Gameplay Farming Simulator 18 has a generic gameplay engine and it's back in force on the handhelds. Take control of a number of tractors, combine harvesters and forestry equipment and head out into the fields. To give you a summary of what you will spend most of your time doing. You cultivate fields, then seed them, wait a little while and then go and harvest the crops. Then you can either store them in your silo's or you can sell it all straight away and make money. Essentially this is one of the main ways you earn mon...

Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator Review – Words Hurt

31May

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PC Reviews

Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator Review – Words Hurt

Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator has hit consoles, and with it comes insults so cutting that you will feel like a paper snowflake at Christmas by the time you are finished. The game is developed by Vile Monarch and published by Gambitious Digital Entertainment. Coming in at only ~350MB you would be entitled to think that this game was light on fun, and you would be wrong! So what exactly is Oh...Sir!! well its exactly what its title suggest, an insult simulator. You take the reigns of one of many characters, each with their own personalities and sore spots and head out on a short journey to insult people and defeat them. Gameplay Its straight forward 1v1 gameplay, set out like a fighting game with a health bar at the top of the screen. With a few games modes available including a tourn...

PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds Could Get A Campaign

30May

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News & Updates

PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds Could Get A Campaign

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds has taken the world by storm, even though the game is still in early access over on Steam its amazing at the popularity of the game. Well Brendan Green the creator of PUBG told Game Informer about his dream of a campaign based around the island and it's history. Lore is important for creating it, but we don't have any serious lore there... if we were going to do a single-player campaign then maybe the history of the island would come into it, Originally I thought, because we have this Russian island and there's evidence of a military occupation there, it'd be fun to have a Watch Dogs kind of game based on the island. Where it's a bustling island with military occupation and you and five or four friends can play a single kind of multiplayer campaign set ...

Dead Alliance – Seize The Dead Announcement Trailer

24May

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News & Updates

Dead Alliance – Seize The Dead Announcement Trailer

Now who doesn't love a nice bite of zombie games? See what we did there? Maximum Games has announced Dead Alliance, an inventive take on zombie games and team-based first-person shooters expected to launch Aug. 29 on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One and Windows PC. Zombies in Dead Alliance are not just the enemy; they are weapons that can be strategically used to distract and destroy unsuspecting human foes in combat. Seize the dead – or find yourself counted among them. Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where military bases are humanity’s last city-states, Dead Alliance pits warring teams of players against each other for survival in a world ravaged by the zombie plague. It features a variety of single-player and 4v4 multiplayer modes, including Team D...

24May

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News & Updates

DiRT 4 Gets A New Rallycross Trailer

DiRT 4 saw a new trailer drop this week, and this time showcasing the Rallycross feature in the game. Rallycross if you weren't aware is thrilling multicar, circuit racing on mixed surfaces made up of both dirt and asphalt. The short, quick-fire races take four to six laps and each car must complete at least one ‘Joker Lap’ which is longer than the traditional lap leading to tactical, enthralling wheel-to-wheel racing. Drivers compete in four qualifying races before the top drivers make the semi finals and final. The supercar class in the FIA World Rallycross Championship are 600bhp beasts that accelerate from 0-60mph in under 2 seconds – faster than a Formula One car. If you have played the previous DiRT Rally then you will be aware of the Rallycross areas of the game, but in DiRT 4 Co...

Friday The 13th: The Game Releases This Week

22May

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Friday The 13th: The Game Releases This Week

Jason Vorhees comes smashing to our game screens this week in Friday The 13th: The Game and with it comes some big promises. Can the game deliver on those? Or are we going to see it sink to the bottom of Camp Crystal Lake? So what do we know about this game? Well from the videos that have been doing the rounds for a while, we know that the game is going to be brutal! Im not messing about there when I say its brutal. Just check out this video and see for yourself. So you made it back after that? See, brutal! In fact brutal doesn't cover it, we need something far more accurate of a description. GRUESOME! If you haven't seen any information about The Game, let me lay you down some of the details. Gameplay Friday the 13th: The Game is a third-person horror, survival game whe...

DLC – Dirty Lying Cheats, The Good The Bad

17May

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Features

DLC – Dirty Lying Cheats, The Good The Bad

Ok, just a quick rant about DLC and how it has shaped the way we buy games these days. First off, DLC actually stands for Downloadable Content, not the title above...but this is how people feel about the companies that bring out this DLC. DLC can be both paid for, and also free, even though both come with their pros and cons, all I'm going to do in this article is give you a brief overview of them all and how they affect the way we play games. So onto the first one FREE DLC!!! WOOO!! everyone loves something that is free right? Well, not when it comes at the expense of an incomplete game. For example, Rory McIlroys PGA Tour Golf by Electronic Arts, this was meant to be the game that brought back the PGA tour franchise, however, it got released with so small courses and players, even ...