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Call of Duty: Attack on Titan Mastercraft Bundle

28Feb

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Call of Duty: Attack on Titan Mastercraft Bundle

Following on from January's initial collaboration with Attack on Titan. Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone fans will be delighted with the release of the new Mastercraft Bundle! Available from the 22 February the Tracer Pack: Attack on Titan - Armoured Titan Mastercraft Bundle comes with 10 items as follows: Armoured Titan Operation Skin Armoured Strength Assault Rifle Blueprint, showing a nice skeletal flesh skin and red tracers A Legendary "Colossus" Sniper Blueprint Anti-personnel Pistol Blueprint "Paradis Lost" Emblem "Titan Serum" Charm "Wall Titan" Spray A "Die-urnal" Watch "Thunder Spears" Calling Card Unstoppable Force highlight intro The Mastercraft bundle comes just as the anime series reaches its epic conclusion. If you have the COD p...

17Jan

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Xbox Reviews

Before We Leave Review

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a remote corner of the universe. Developed by Balancing Monkey Games and published by Team17, it sees you rebuild your civilisation and settle on new lands, with the goal to leave one planet and travel to the next whilst avoiding the mythical hungry Space Whales! Skies the limit! As a fan of the original Age of Empires games, I was keen to get stuck into this twist on the genre. Check out what I thought of Before We Leave below, and follow it up by reading some of the TC Crew's previous Xbox game reviews here. Gameplay Before We Leave is a non-violent settle game, where you build cities on various planets across the universe, with the main goal to build successful and safe settlements for the Peeps, the in-game inhabitants of the unive...

13Jan

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News & Updates

McLaren 765LT speeds into Rocket League

Big limited time news for Rocket League fans! Following a successful partnership between McLaren and Psyonix that bought the McLaren 570S to Rocket League way back in 2018 (there's been a few re-releases of one of our favourite DLC cars ever). They have finally teamed up again to bring us the quite beautiful and incredibly fast McLaren 765LT. The bundle, purchasable via the Item Shop for 1100 Credits, includes the following: 765LT Car 765LT Engine Audio 765LT Wheels (Standard) 765LT Wheels (Black) 765LT Decal (Silver) 765LT Player Banner You are going to have to be quick off the mark to get this, quite frankly, stunning car to spin around the Rocket League arenas as it is only available until the 18 January 2022! The Thumb Culture crew like nothing m...

Kirby & the Forgotten Land – Release Date

13Jan

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News & Updates

Kirby & the Forgotten Land – Release Date

Nintendo has announced that Kirby and the Forgotten Land will be released on the 25th March 2022. Gone 3D for 30th Birthday This is the first time that Kirby has gone 3D and the new trailer shows off the games co-op features and powers you can draw from the lands flora and fauna. The two new abilities showcased are the Drill and Ranger. Drill allows Kirby to dive underground to dodge attacks and pop-up on enemies from below. Where as the Ranger ability equips Kirby with a blunderbuss so he can snipe enemies from afar and whilst airborne. Kirby and the Forgotten Land sees Kirby travel to a mysterious land, covered in deserted buildings and rusty cars, to investigate the mass kidnappings of the Waddle Dees. He is joined on his journey by his trusty blue sidekick, Elfilin. Toge...

12Jan

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Attack on Titan arrives in Call of Duty

Fans of the Call of Duty and the iconic and best-selling manga series Attack on Titan will be pleased to hear that Daniel Yatsu is coming to both Vanguard and Warzone Pacific as part of the games first major update of 2022! This collaboration becomes officially available on 20 January, following the midseason update that also includes a new operator, a new SMG, additional Zombies content and a whole host of bug fixes (please, please fix the tier 100 skin you cant see past 35meters!!) The Vanguard update will be available from 12 January at 5am (GMT), whilst the Warzone Pacific update follows at 5am(GMT) the following day. All ready for to go live on at 5pm (GMT) on the 13 January 2022. Get your COD Points Ready! The only way to obtain Daniel Yatsu is by purchasing The Tracer Pa...

12Jan

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News & Updates

Fortnite – Todays Forecast Says

In the Chapter 3 trailer, Fortnite teased players with large tornadoes and lightening storms across the map. Now, after a couple of minor hotfixes, they have been released onto the Chapter 3 island, making full use of the Unreal Engine 5, to cause mayhem, destruction and potentially assist you in your quest for a Victory Crown. Don't Run! In most games, at the first sign of a massive tornado or lightening storm heading towards, your instinct would be to run in the opposite direction. However, what Fortnite have cleverly done is given these weather elements features that can assist your gameplay. Tornadoes will pick you up and spin you around until you either glide out, or get hurled out (no fall damage!) a great way to escape a fire fight or quickly move aro...

Warzone: Ricochet Anti-Cheat goes global

16Dec

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Warzone: Ricochet Anti-Cheat goes global

The Warzone: Ricochet Anti-Cheat has finally gone live globally this week, hopefully signalling the end of the hackers and cheats that have blighted Warzone over the last few years. Included within a 20GB Warzone update, the kernel level driver was tested in the Asia-Pacific area to begin with to help identify how current hackers were manipulating the game. Will it stop the cheaters? Quite simply no. Just because we now have a kernel level anti-cheat doesn't mean we will no longer see cheating within the game. What will begin now is a game of cat and mouse, between Ricochet and the hackers, to exploit gaps in the driver and then fix those gaps quickly. Kernel level drivers aren't a catch-all device so we won't see players being banned immediately. What we will ...

6Dec

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Xbox Reviews

Klang 2 Review

Klang 2 is a indie game developed solo by Tom-Ivar Arntzen, also known as Tinimations and published by Ratalaika Games. It follows on from 2016 release of Klang, which received generally positive reviews and award nominations. For those that didn't play the original, Klang 2 is a psychedelic rhythm-action game with a pulsation Electronic Dance Music (EDM) soundtrack to power you through the combat. Klang 2 - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (Blade?) Gameplay The gist of the gameplay is to aim your magical tune-blade and strike the visual enemy in accordance with their shape, either Strike, Dash or Hold, to achieve a euphoric state of trance! Strikes are the most common and allow you to fast attack the enemy, Dash makes you dodge counterattacks, and Hold releases a lightning bolt that ...

6Dec

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Fortnite Chapter 3 Flips In

Fortnite Chapter 3 dropped over the weekend with a mass live event bringing to an end Chapter 2. A very quick summary of the live event goes as follows: The Cube Queen attempted to end the Last Reality, but thankfully The Foundation (aka The Rock) appeared and along with Jonesy helped to defeat both the Cube Queen, her minions, and UFOs by effectively flipping the Fortnite map 180 degrees. After a bit of server downtime, Chapter 3 was finally available to the public and taking full advantage of its migration to Unreal Engine 5. The move to Unreal Engine 5 has allowed Epic to not only up the visuals but also bring more mechanics into the game. Just Flip It As with all new Chapters and Seasons in Fortnite players are keen to see what changes have been made to the map. Chapter 3 do...

16Nov

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Xbox Reviews

BPM: Bullets Per Minute Review

Bullets Per Minute (BPM) is a 90s inspired dungeon game developed by Awe Interactive and published by Playtonic Friends. Initially released in September 2020, we take a look at the latest release for Xbox. Bullets Per Minute - "Live Fast, Die Fast!" With the main gist of the game to shoot down the hordes of demons in time with the music, we thought it best to hand it over to our in-house drummer to see what he made of it. Gameplay At its heart Bullets Per Minute is a Doom-inspired FPS rhythm game. Everything you do as a player must be in time with the music; shooting, jumping, reloading you fail to do this and your gun will jam and the hordes of demons will quickly strike you down - they also attack to the rhythm. I'll admit it took quite a long time to get used to the movement ...