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The Blackout Club PC Review – See With Your Eyes Closed

27Aug

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The Blackout Club PC Review – See With Your Eyes Closed

The Blackout Club is a first-person co-op horror game launched on July 30th on PC, Xbox & PS4 that involves a group of teenage friends investigating a monstrous secret in their town, sounds familiar right? *cough* stranger things *cough*. You and up to 4 players can explore and carry out missions against an enemy that you can only …...wait for it……..see with your eyes closed!!!! Let’s jump in and see what I thought of The Blackout Club. Gameplay “Every night, everyone in town gets out of bed and sleepwalks. In the morning, they wake up with no recollection of what happened or where they were.” The Blackout Club is set in a quiet modern neighbourhood full of houses, as you’d expect, but is situated around the edge of the woods but with a mysterious subterranean network ...

21Aug

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Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

I’m Hungry PS4 VR Review

I’m Hungry VR is the latest release from Winking Corp and was served upon Playstation VR on 8th July 2019. It vaguely resembles a first-person, VR version of Overcooked, with your task being to step into the grease-spattered shoes of an over-worked burger stand jockey and makeup food orders for a never-ending queue of wacky characters. Gameplay I'm Hungry VR follows a level-based format. Upon loading up the first level you'll find the tools used to prepare the various calorific nightmares on the menu line the cramped confines of your kiosk, with an ice cream machine, trays containing burger components, a soda dispenser and a chip fryer all within arm's reach. Preparing each item involves a couple of steps, requiring you to hit buttons, pull levers and wait for timers to expire. There ...

Graveyard Keeper Switch Review – That Sir, Will Cost An Arm And A Leg

16Aug

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Gaming, Switch Reviews

Graveyard Keeper Switch Review – That Sir, Will Cost An Arm And A Leg

Netflix documentaries about murders, or when people die never truly go into what happens, do they just use your ashes? are you dumped off by a donkey on a roadside and chopped apart to have your flesh used as meat? Instead of reading the usual celebrity books I would whilst I was sat on the beach I " switched " things up and took my trusty switch and dived into one of the greatest time-consuming games I have discovered yet. Graveyard Keeper is brought to us wonderful developers Lazy Bear games and publishers Tinybuild as they've already given us great games such as punch club, Pandemic Express and more including many titles coming onto the switch. Gameplay According to the cut scene, you're starting off in some kind of freak accident. Something that not only takes you away from yo...

Fade To Silence PC Review – A Game Of Solitude

15Aug

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Fade To Silence PC Review – A Game Of Solitude

Hi everyone. Today I will be letting you know about Fade To Silence, which has been developed by Black Forest Games and published by THQ Nordic GmbH. Fade To Silence is available on PS4, XB1 and PC. My outing will be done using the Steam Version with the PC Gameplay Fade To Silence is not a game for new gamers. It's a punishing game that does not forgive you for poor judgement. It will not hold your hand, so make sure you have your big boy/girl pants on. Fade To Silence is based in a post-apocalyptic frozen wasteland. You play a character called Ash. You have to gather resources just to stay alive. Fade To Silence sets you up with limited lives and permadeath. To those of you who don't know what that means, it's simple. When you run out of lives it's game over, no contin...

FIA European Truck Racing Championship PS4 Review – Precision Heavy Metal

8Aug

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Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

FIA European Truck Racing Championship PS4 Review – Precision Heavy Metal

FIA European Truck Racing Championship (ETRC) is available for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Windows PC and on Playstation 4 which will be my test circuit. BigBen Interactive are the publishers for this game, they certainly don't need any introduction unless you've been hiding under a rock. N-Racing has been developing racing games for some time now, although mainly arcade-style racers to my knowledge. Gameplay FIA European Truck Racing Championship is a mouthful so from here on I will refer to it as ETRC. This was a new one for me. Truck racing is one thing I've never had a lot of experience with. I know it exists but I'm more used to hypercars or F1 cars zipping around a track. ETRC is something I am quite intrigued about. Eagerly I hit the options button to get straight into the acti...

7Aug

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Wolfenstein Youngblood PC Preview

Wolfenstein Youngblood is a first-person co-op shooter game and a spin-off to the Wolfenstein series, developed by MachineGames and Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. One really cool benefit of Wolfenstein Youngblood is if you purchase the Deluxe Edition of the game it grants you the Buddy Pass which allows you to invite a friend to play through the entire game with you—for free! The game was released on July 26th on Xbox, PS4, PC & Nintendo Switch and will also be coming to Stadia in the future. Gameplay Your role in Wolfenstein Youngblood is to play as one of BJ Blazkowicz’s (the protagonist of the Wolfenstein series) twin daughters named Jess or Soph, which by 20 years have passed since the events of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. You begin the game by c...

Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis – Smothered With Grease

6Aug

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Switch Reviews

Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis – Smothered With Grease

Do you ever find yourself wishing there was another game out there which was in the mould of Broken Sword? And do also you wish it was not quite as good as Broken Sword? If the answer to these two questions is “Yes” then Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis could be for you. Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis was developed by Fusionsphere Systems and Animation Arts and was originally released in 2009 on various platforms to variable reactions. With the Switch selling like hot-cakes, every developer and their mother is looking to port their back catalogue over, and so, much like it's prequel Secret Files Tunguska, Secret Files 2 is back, sporting a few improvements but otherwise looking pretty similar to its late naughties progenitor. The plot of the game concerns the fairly nasty Puritas Co...

Rescue HQ Tycoon – PC Review – 911 whats your emergency?

6Aug

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Rescue HQ Tycoon – PC Review – 911 whats your emergency?

My childhood was very much similar to adulthood, my hobbies were games and one of the most memorable ones were Theme Hospital. i remember spending hours and hours pretending i was a doctor or a nurse building the perfect place where everyone was happy and everyone came out alive (oh my sweet child mind for believing this ) Given Rescue HQ Tycoon to review may just of brought back a whole ton of nostalgia. Rescue HQ Tycoon is brought to you by developers stillalive studios, the same guys who brought us other sim games such as Bus simulator 18. It is published by yet more people who made sim style games Aerosoft who gave us more fun games such as emergency call 112 and truck simulator Gameplay The mayor, a cute little fella with a double chin ( i had to check that it w...

Must Dash Amigos PC Review – Piñata Stampedes

31Jul

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Must Dash Amigos PC Review – Piñata Stampedes

Must Dash Amigos by miniBeast Games is a top-down battle racer for up to 4 players that is filled with avocados and pinata stampedes. You can play single player & local multiplayer of up to 4 players. The game has just been released on PC via Steam on 21st July and is aiming to be released later on in the year on the Nintendo Switch & Xbox One. Gameplay Must Dash Amigos is a fun and humorous game whereas the saying says “To survive in this world you cannot just run; you Must Dash Amigos!”. Your goal is simple, in “Race Mode!” you need to run, or should I say dash around the games 12 unique race tracks as fast as you can to the finish line, leaving your rivals behind you in a trail of dust. The controls are really simple in Must Dash Amigos so anyone of any age can pick t...

Diesel Brothers Truck Building Simulator PC Review – Look Mom, I’m A Mechanic

26Jul

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Diesel Brothers Truck Building Simulator PC Review – Look Mom, I’m A Mechanic

I often watch the 5 min creative videos you see floating around on social media and I think to myself "yep, I could do that, seems totally easy to recreate" and decided to watch a few Diesel Brothers shows myself which again I was like " looks hard, but I bet I could manage to build my own giant pink truck!" Turns out I'm an absolute wet wipe at building anything other than a lego figurine. Diesel Brothers; Truck Building Simulator is brought to you by developers Code Horizon the same guys who brought us games such as Gold Rush, It is published by both Code Horizon and PlayWay S.A The wonderful humans who blessed us with games such as house flipper and car mechanic simulator Gameplay The game is based off the actual television show Diesel Brothers which I have often found my...