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Axiom Verge Review – Beautifully Nostalgic
8Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Axiom Verge Review – Beautifully Nostalgic

Here at Thumb Culture, we're reviewing more indie games than ever before. The hightened focus on helping small developers has brought in lots of titles and can I just say, keep them coming! But, in the gigantic ocean of software, it's rare that an indie is as well-designed as Axiom Verge. Developed and published by Thomas Happ games LLC who has worked on many different "triple-A" games for both PC and consoles, such as Grey Goo, Tiger Woods, and NFL Street, to name a few. I would just like to mention that BadLand Games is donating 75 percent of its share of sales of Axiom Verge to a special fund dedicated to the ongoing healthcare costs of Tom Happ's son, Alastair, who suffers from Kernicterus, a bilirubin-induced brain dysfunction which is caused when new-born jaundice isn't treated in a ...
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Release Date for Layers of Fear: Legacy Announced
7Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Release Date for Layers of Fear: Legacy Announced

Layers of Fear: Legacy has finally had an official release date confirmed for the Nintendo Switch version of the horror title. Developed by, Bloober Team, Layers of Fear: Legacy will be arriving this month to the Nintendo Switch. It's a horror title that finds you controlling an artist who slowly descends further, and further into madness. The title takes you around a fairly large house in which all manners of items begin to move, and even paintings come to life as you proceed to lose your mind. The Layers of Fear: Legacy edition will not only include the base game, but it'll also include the Layers of Fear: Inheritance DLC. It focuses on being more of an immersive, atmospheric environment rather than throwing monsters at your face. Layers of Fear: Legacy will be available on Nintendo S...
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Create Your Shoppekeeper In Shoppe Keep 2 Ahead Of Launch
5Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Create Your Shoppekeeper In Shoppe Keep 2 Ahead Of Launch

With Shoppe Keep 2 on the way this year, players can get a small taste of what to expect by creating their Shoppe Keepers for free! Before I waffle on about Shoppe Keep 2, Shoppe Keep was a first-person shop management title by Strange Fire, and published by Excalibur Games in 2015. The title finds players running their own shop in the middle of a fantasy town with heroes, and heroines flocking to your store to buy weapons and more. Shoppe Keep 2 follows on from the success of the first and includes more elements, such as Online play, and free-roam allowing players to go out and find items to sell, rather than just ordering them in. The players can also equip the armour and weapons that they sell in order to protect them when they're on their quests to find items to sell. The Charact...
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Thumb Culture Retrospective – The Beatles Rock Band
5Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Thumb Culture Retrospective – The Beatles Rock Band

There's nothing I love more than The Beatles, well, apart from David Bowie, Pulp and actually come to think of it there are quite a few things I love more than The Beatles. When it comes to me and Rock Band, I get on quite well with it. My main issue with the games has always been my below average health, specifically my wrists, it makes it pretty hard to play Rock Band for long periods of time. Still, that didn't stop me from putting the disc in and not stopping until I'd played through the entire story mode. What I do regret is playing every single song in one go in one day without a break. Writing this review currently is about as easy as coaxing a meerkat out of its hole with car insurance. I'll just preface this review with a note. I do in fact really enjoy The Beatles, and I play ...
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Her Majesty’s SPIFFING Arrives on Nintendo Switch
3Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Her Majesty’s SPIFFING Arrives on Nintendo Switch

The point-and-click title, Her Majesty’s SPIFFING that finds players establishing a new Galactic British Empire in space has been launched for the Nintendo Switch on the 2nd of February 2018. Developed by Billy Goat Entertainment, Her Majesty’s SPIFFING originally succeeded on Kickstarter and began development in 2014. It's also available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, iOS, Android, and now the Nintendo Switch. Her Majesty's SPIFFING finds, Captain Frank Lee English and his colleague, Aled on board the HMSS Imperialise. They'll have to solve puzzles in classic point-and-click style. The trailer can be found below, and the title is currently available in digital format from the Nintendo eShop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-FTph5Cvo Disclaimer: A code was received in order to write thi...
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Set up Shop in Shoppe Keep as the Title Arrives on Xbox One Soon
2Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Set up Shop in Shoppe Keep as the Title Arrives on Xbox One Soon

The original Shoppe Keep is due to arrive on Xbox One this March ahead of the sequel's launch. Shoppe Keep, a title by Strange Fire and Published by Excalibur Games is heading to the Xbox One on the 2nd of March 2018. Shoppe Keep allows players to manage their own shop within a fantasy fuelled town. Heroes and heroines travel far and wide to visit the town and it's your job to make your shop as appealing to them as possible to generate sales. You get to set the prices of various types of equipment, and murder those who attempt to steal from you. It originally launched back in 2016 and was available on PC, and PS4. Shoppe Keep will now be available on Xbox One as of the 2nd of March 2018, and just round the corner is Shoppe Keep 2 that's due to launch this April. Shoppe Keep 2 aims to...
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Delay And New Screenshots Teased
1Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Delay And New Screenshots Teased

Red Dead Redemption 2 by Rockstar Games had a trailer back in 2016 with the outro title stating "Fall 2017". Then a second trailer that was released in September 2017 announced that it'll be arriving in Spring 2018. Well Spring is nearly here and Red Dead Redemption 2 is now delayed until the 26th of October 2018. In Rockstar's latest blog post they state that they are delaying it to give the final game "some polish". No further details for the delay were given, but instead they bombarded us with a bunch of juicy screenshots to get us teased and kind of...forget that October is ages away. YouTube | FaceBook | Twitter | Instagram| Twitch | Discord | Podcast
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Portable Horror As, The Town of Light: Deluxe Edition Heads to Switch
1Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Portable Horror As, The Town of Light: Deluxe Edition Heads to Switch

The Town of Light: Deluxe Edition is heading to the Nintendo Switch this Spring.Wired Productions released details today that The Town of Light: Deluxe Edition is to arrive on the Nintendo Switch this year sometime around Spring. The title, developed by LKA, follows who appears to be an ex-patient returning to the Asylum and recalls memories as she wanders further and further in. The Town of Light: Deluxe Edition will build up on the console edition that launched back in 2017 and will include a collection of documents that detail more information about the hospital, and even the patients that went there. The game has a strong focus on mental health, and back in September 2017, both Wired Productions, and LKA took part in the, "You Are Not Alone" campaign and throughout the campaign, ...
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First of Four Major Updates Arrives for Early Access Title. Fade to Silence
1Feb By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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First of Four Major Updates Arrives for Early Access Title. Fade to Silence

Fade to Silence got its first major update with another three to follow suit during its time in Early Access. Fade to Silence is a survival horror set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun with Eldritch monsters, and players take control of, Ash, a survivor, and leader of a growing camp. Ash is also possessed by an Eldritch monster spirit that awaits his eventual death. The Early Access title by Black Forest Games, and published by THQ Nordic, has received its first major update out of a planned four. The first update, titled, "Hope" addresses the difficulty some players may face, by introducing a "Catch-up Mechanism". During the game, the player has a set number of lives, if they die on the last life then it's permadeath. The Catch-up Mechanism is designed to allow the player to catch...
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The C64 Mini Due to Arrive 29th March 2018
31Jan By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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The C64 Mini Due to Arrive 29th March 2018

Retro Games Ltd have unveiled another C64 console to join their two previous consoles. Before the C64 Mini, back in 2016, an IndieGoGo campaign started up for the development of the 64 Computer, a modern recreation of the Commodore C64. It also had the 64 SX, a handheld edition of the Commodore. Fast forward to 2017 and  Retro Games Ltd pushed a trailer of the C64 Mini. This is followed after Nintendo's success with the Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES, so there's already a demand for mini versions of consoles.+ The C64 Mini is going to be arriving on the 29th of March 2018. It'll be half the size of the original and have 64 games built into the console. The console supports HDMI with its output coming at 720p in an 4:3 aspect ratio. It has two USB ports with the option of plugging in ...
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