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Might and Magic: Elemental Guardians
Might and Magic: Elemental Guardians is an RPG game that is a lot of fun, when we say a lot of fun we mean alot of fun! Now I have never been a big fan of turn based RPG games myself, but I’ve always given them a go, and I’m glad that I gave Might and Magic: Elemental Guardians a go!
Why?
Addictive RPG!
As I cannot put it down, I’m always on it now! I almost missed my train earlier because I was too busy fighting the enemies and upgrading my little creatures! The aim of Might and Magic: Elemental Guardians is to battle your way through the various lands and elements to claim victory and rule over the land once more. You are tasked with taking hold of up to 4 creatures of your choosing, whilst utilising the mystic powers of your hero to help them along the way. Once you have chosen your creatures you are then tasked with choosing which magic that your character is responsible for. Furthermore, those House Magic choices are either Materia, Chimera or Anima. With each of them giving you an extra edge against your opponent be that extra attack speed, extra defence or even taking away an enemies ability. So, for example, making them more vulnerable to attacks!
Character Progression
Each character is able to be ranked up and leveled up, however, choose wisely as ranking up requires you to sacrifice other members of your team! Consequently this is where the replayability of this game comes into play, if you want to keep all of your strongest creatures. The task would be to rank up your least favourite creatures and then use them to rank up your favoured battle creatures! It’s a bit of a pain but, it allows you to keep playing for much longer! Each creature is able to hold up to 6 glyphs which allow you to increase the abilities of your creatures, so much like other RPG games you have to be tactical in what you upgrade as to best achieve success!
Furthermore with many games these days there are various tasks that you have to complete to earn achievements. Yet, this is where Might and Magic: Elemental Guardians separates itself from the pack. The achievements that you unlock unlock special tokens and other various magic elements to help you either upgrade your creatures or help them along the way to evolve into bigger better creatures! Yet, the evolving is a marathon more than a sprint as it takes A LOT to evolve them. Hence why this game is for the long haul and not for a quick 10minute play. Well you can play for 1o minutes but that 10minutes may turn into an hour. As I’ve found out more than once this week!
Might and Magic is out now! Please see below for more information and a link to download the game!
Game Info
Enter the world of Might & Magic: Elemental Guardians – a fast-paced strategy RPG based on the medieval fantasy realm of Might & Magic.
Journey through enchanted lands, collecting fierce and fantastic elemental creatures, and evolve a team of mighty warriors to summon to battle on the path to victory.
ENROLL IN THE ACADEMY OF MAGIC
• Create, customize and level up your own hero
• Choose a House of Magic: Materia, Chimera or Anima
• Use the mystic powers of your House to triumph in the arena
SUMMON A LEGENDARY TEAM
• Discover and collect hundreds of fantastic beasts and iconic creatures
• Watch their evolution from cute companions to legendary war allies
• Equip your team with arcane Glyphs to enhance their abilities
TRAIN & BATTLE
• Level up your creatures to unlock their true might
• Compete in the PvP Arena to rise up the league leaderboards
• Participate in Live Events to win epic prizes and rare items
• Ally with your friends in Guilds for mighty team adventures
LEAD YOUR TEAM TO VICTORY
• Face fierce opponents in fast and strategic RPG battles
• Use the elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth tactically to gain the advantage
• Cast epic spells and use magical abilities of different elements
BECOME A HERO OF LEGENDS
• Journey through the fabled fantasy realms of Might & Magic
• Complete diverse daily quests and earn special rewards
• Enjoy beautiful graphics and unique creature designs
This app contains In-App Purchases which allow you to buy in-game currency. In-game currency can also be collected by playing the game without requiring any purchase. [Apple/Ubisoft]
To download Might and Magic Elemental Guardians please click here Apple / Android
State of Decay 2: How will you survive?
State of Decay 2 is here and the Zombies are taking over. It is your job to help the world survive and destroy the zombie horde, build up homes and create antidotes to help heal the infected. State of Decay 2 is a RPG game that takes time and patience to enjoy it the most. State of Decay 2 is the ultimate zombie survival game in a completely open world, what’s even better is that you can work in a team of 4 to build up a community of survivors inside the post apocalyptic world of Zombie infestations.
How will you survive?
It’s your responsibility to establish a base and develop your characters’ abilities. However, manage your resources effectively to survive as a group where every decision has a consequence. Such as getting food, but make sure you use the food as otherwise it will rot! Each experience is unique to the player, the open world even responds to the decisions that you make. Developing in real time as you build your player as you demonstrate what you prioritise over other things to survive. As a leader, each decision affects your team too, send your scavenger across town to gather medicine, however, choose the wrong one and they may not make it back.
Think about how you help your neighbors, are they allies or enemies? Or are you the bad guy, you may decide you need the food more than they do.
How you decide to survive may surprise you!
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5 Ways to kill time in the summer in London
So, Summer is just around the corner and there are a lot of things that you can do to in your spare time. Many of which not a lot of people know they actually exist. Yet, we originally didn’t know they existed either, but that’s why we’re here to bring cool things to do, to you, our audience, so you don’t have to go and research them yourselves. We pride ourselves on finding cool things to do and we have the definitive list of activities that you can do this summer in London! Therefore, without further adieu, here are 5 things to do in London that we think are absolutely amazing!
Predator Adventures
Why not go at high speed this summer in London?
Based at the Royal Victoria Dock in Central London, users are put into a super speed, high powered half-submersible speedboat that sends you through the water at an incredible rate. Ducking in and out of the water, just like a killer whale. Did we mention that the high speed powered vehicle that you’re strapped in, is shaped and designed to look just like a Killer Whale? No? Well it looks awesome! So, we’re implore you to try it out!
Jack The Ripper Tour
Intrigued by Jack The Ripper? Why not go and scare yourself silly this summer in London?
For those who love a horror story, Jack the Ripper Tour is for you!
The tours starts in the heart of Jack the Ripper, at Aldgate East Station, 7 days a week. The tour is led by Jack the Ripper enthusiasts.
“London’s latest and most unique tourist attraction”
Jack the Ripper Tour prides itself on realism. Consequently, you get to visit the ACTUAL places where the victims were murdered. While handheld projectors are used to help re-enact the story on the tour.
Time Run
Since we do live in Britain, therefore Summer doesn’t always mean ‘Summer’. As a result, if the weather is typically British this summer in London, why not head down to an escape room? An Hour To Kill An Hour favourite!
This is Time Run, an escape room that takes you through a range of time periods, imploring you to complete tasks and get back to modern day! Time Run captures your imagination right off the bat by having the entire experience take place with everyone in character.
Everything and anything is told to you by a cast of whacky characters who make up the Time Runner team, the best of which is your robot companion Babbage.You and your team get to venture between a multitude of time periods, solving a wide range of puzzles that range from ones that’ll give you a nice mental workout, to ones that will have your team crying out in confusion over how impossible it seems.
Hot Tug
…..or take a break from all that running and chill out in a hot tub this summer in London?
Hot Tug is a very unique experience in Regents Canal, Islington, London, to ride a Hot Tub! The experience lasts 90mins with 75mins worth of relaxing along the canal, in the beautiful picturesque centre of London.
The water within the Hot Tug is heated to 38 degrees and is controlled by a wood burning stove at the front of the vehicle, you can choose from a range of accessories such as a Captains hat! Steering the Hot Tug is very easy and is used via a rudder at the back of the vehicle. Once your time is up the water is then cleaned and prepared for the next lot of ship mates!
Big Smoke Scavenger Hunt
…….or have fun taking pictures this summer in London?
The Big Smoke Scavenger Hunt is an exciting, fun filled day out in London.
The challenging and unique experience consists of completing tasks set by Big Smoke. These tasks require participants to take photos of them undertaking said tasks. For example with 10 different places or things, standing upside down or with a dog. You may be required to take videos too depending on the challenge! As the name suggests you may end up running around London scavenging for various different items scattered around town!
While, you have 2 hours to complete all of these challenges, the team with the most completed tasks, wins a trophy!
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So, there it is the definitive How To Kill An Hour list of the 5 things that we think you should check out this summer! What else is happening this summer? The World Cup! We’re super excited! However, if you don’t like football, we have just the list for you, the top 5 things to do if you don’t like football. Therefore, another 5 things to do, we hope you check out some of them that you like the look of! Also, don’t forget to let us know what you think by contacting us via our social pages (@howtokillanhour) or via the contact page!
5 alternatives to the World Cup
It’s about to be Summer 2018 and what does that mean? The World Cup 2018 in Russia! Most people cannot wait to cheer on the lads to hopefully bring back the trophy. What if you are not one of these people and want alternatives to the world cup? Well, we’re specialists in finding some super cool things to do! So we have another great list for you guys to check out. This time it’s all about great things to do if you’re not a football fan.
Here’s our Top 5* alternatives to the World Cup:
Pubs that are more than pubs
ABQ London
ABQ is described as the world’s first ‘immersive molecular cocktail bar’ – Attendee’s are there to make and infuse your own drinks inside a Motorhome. All the while listening to some hip hop and gangster rap. They started up in 2015 and you’ll be working various different molecular techniques to cook and make your own cocktails. Then of course you can drink up! Plus there’s alcoholic options available for those that wish to.
Four Thieves
Four Thieves is like no pub you have seen before! It’s unlike anything we have seen before, we’ll say that much! If you want fun on a Friday night head down to the Four Thieves pub as we can guarantee if you’ll have fun! There is so much to do there besides drink copious amounts of alcohol. So much more, if you’re a big kid, you’ll love it. Ok I’ll stop hyping it up now and actually tell you why we think that it’s so good. It’s impressed us. Can you tell?
This pub has a lot of games inside it, there’s a whole room dedicated to it! There’s Moonshine Racing which is remote controlled car racing, Virtual Reality Booths, Mini-Golf and Retro Arcade games! The beers that the guys sell here are all brewed from their own on-site brewery. Great food available, lots of different events on weekly, it’s no surprise that the pub picked up a best pub nomination from Time Out just two weeks after opening!
Alcotraz
This bar is a lot of fun, it’s definitely something different than what we have experienced before. It’s an immersive theatrical experience that gets you from the second that you arrive at the destination.
Alcotraz bar is inspired by Hollywood movies that have brought to life one of America’s most infamous prisons. Right in the heart of London. The bar is London’s very first immersive theatrical cocktail bar. It’s not an experience that stops once you get to the end, it’s a fully functional bar once it’s over. If you manage to escape the guards that is.
Crazy Golf
Junkyard golf
Four nine hole crazy golf courses of weird junk, mad holes and bad puns.
Encounter UFC bear cages, scrapyard slides, creepy clowns and treehouse bars in search of the perfect round. Not to mention the mind-altering UV garage section.
Choose to play one of FOUR courses PABLO (Polluted Paradise), BOZO (Circus Freaks), GARY (Scrapyard Challenge) or BRUCE (Old School Movie Mash-Up).
FOUR bars, serving banging cocktails, like the Golf Lundgren or Who’s Your Caddy and tasty snacks including hot dogs, nachos and popcorn.
Swingers Golf
There’s quite a few golf pop ups in London and Swingers is one to take note of, as it incorporates drinking into the mix too! Swingers is a crazy golf venue that is located both in the city and also located in London’s west end. To show how crazy this venue is there is only a limited amount of walk up tickets available to punters. For the most part, it is a booking only venue, so make sure you book your tickets to avoid disappointment! One thing to note is that Swingers is an 18+ venue as there is alcohol served on the establishment.
Swingers is a crazy golf club that turns the traditional crazy golf ideology and turns it on it’s head. It has regular crazy golf of course, but it also has street food available to it’s punters and amazing drinks to create one incredible social experience.
VR
Anvio VR
Unlike a lot of VR games or events this is an experience in which you’re allowed to play! Hence why they’re describing it as a playground! What we mean by play is that you’re free to move around. As you’re not confined to a small play area. So you get to run around a HUGE room and experience, quite literally, a whole new world!
In the worlds that Anvio VR have created you can run, jump and even wave to your partners whilst in the game, all that and much much more! Their play area is also fully wirless so there’s no worry about running into a wall or falling over wires. Thus creating a much more realistic and immersive experience. Plus there’s guides in the room, who are there to help prevent you from crashing into any walls, if you do manage to find your way to a wall that is!
Star Wars VR
Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire is a full sensory immersive VR/AR experience that takes you inside the action. Literally! It’s location based, so the sets are interactive too, there’s also real time effects that help to heighten your experience. They really go ALL IN, in trying to make your experience as real as possible.
You really have to experience yourself to truly understand what we’re talking about. (It’s THAT GOOD trust us!) Plus we’re really not allowed to delve into too much as the experience is all about discovery! We wouldn’t want to ruin the secret for you either!
Quirky Things in London
Ballie Ballerson
An adult ball pit is open for a limited amount of time, so get there quick! It’s based in London and called BallieBallerson, it’s filled with 20,000 balls and the venue has two floors, one which offers alcoholic drinks and food, while downstairs is where the nostalgia happens!
There’s even an option for bottomless spaghetti and meatballs! You can even go one step further, for £35 you get bottomless spaghetti and an hour in the pool and if that wasn’t enticing enough you are also allowed unlimited prosecco! (Just don’t go throwing up in the pool, ok!)
Tech Travel
Go to the Arcade hotel
First and foremost it’s a hotel and comes with a wide range of rooms to suit your needs. Perfect alternatives to the world cup eh?.The Arcade Hotel caters for singles, couples and groups and they all have their own unique gaming related nickname. There’s of course, lots of games available to play and there are a few rooms all set up differently for you to enjoy them! There’s a retro room, a multiplayer room and a HUGE gaming room that you’ll never want to leave! We had lots of fun here and we would like to maybe go back some day! Check out the video to see more or read more for a detailled analysis of our visit below.
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So, there it is the definitive How To Kill An Hour list of alternatives to the world cup that we think you should check out if you don’t like football this summer! Enjoyed all of those? Well, we have just the list for you, the top 5 ways to kill time in the summer in london. Therefore, another 5 things to do, we hope you check out some of them that you like the look of! Also, don’t forget to let us know what you think by contacting us via our social pages (@howtokillanhour)
Auto Focus Glasses
If you need glasses you may not need to in the near future! (Kind Of) If you wear glasses you know about the time and hassle it usually takes to get your eyes tested every few years to see if you got to pay loads of money to get your glasses replaced if your eyesight has got worse.
Well, scientists from the University of Utah have created some prototype glasses which could make progressive lenses obsolete for the older folk. These glasses have electronically activated lenses which use infared to judge distance – then the glasses focus automatically and within 14 milliseconds, on whatever it is you’re looking at, regardless of distance. Once the glasses are ready for commercial use they could eliminate the use of multiple pairs for different uses for example instead of 1 for reading and 1 for driving, you’d only require one pair of smart glasses.
To get the right setting for everyday use, the users upload their prescriptions to the glasses by pairing them with a smartphone over bluetooth. You still require to charge the glasses but, at least it saves you a lot money in the long run!
What happens if you run our of battery mid use or while driving?
What can’t be ‘smart-ified’
Would you use these?
What do you think is the danger for these?
Are these a better version of getting bionic eyes?
Raging Justice – Be prepared for a nostalgia rush!
Raging Justice is back and it’s coming to the modern consoles and getting a HUGE update!
From MakinGames, an independent studio comprised of old school Rare Studio veterans. The new version of Raging Justice plays a lot of homage to the original. It’s nostalgic and has a lot of 8-bit sounds to take a user back into the arcades where you put money into a machine to play for a until the sun went down.
For those unaware of what Raging Justice is, you take on hordes and hordes of thugs. (Much like Horde modes on Call of Duty or Gears of War) Once you get to the end of the level, you as a user will be tasked of whether or not to arrest the thugs or to destroy them. Are you a bad cop or a good cop?
Depending on what you choose throughout the game will determine what ending you get once you complete it.
Raging Justice: Features
There are a range of different things at your disposal to complete levels, such as a range of weapons. These aren’t just guns, pick stool and throw it at your foes. Choose a baseball bat to knock some blocks off or even use the deadly pigeon! Furthermore, there is even a range of vehicles you can jump on to run down your enemies. Not just a regular vehicle either. Jump on a tractor or a lawnmower to run them down. Furthermore, you’ll be untouchable but if the vehicle runs extremely low on health you better jump out buddy as no one is saving you!
We don’t know about you but we’re very excited for this game!
Raging Justice will be released in 2018 and feature on Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and XBox One
To listen to the guys discussing this on the podcast please click here! We have since played this game and reviewed it on the show which you can listen to here! (Link LIVE from May 31st)
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Live-action Detective Pikachu movie!
Details are scarce but Detective Pikachu will be on your screens and solving crimes in 2019! The movie will star Ryan Reynolds doing the detective part whilst Pikachu will be his trusty sidekick. Whilst surprisingly he will also voice everyone’s favourite pokemon! (Deadpool esque Detective Pikachu won’t appear, sadly!) The movie is based on a popular Nintendo 3DS game of the same name in Japan and we cannot wait for it!
Detective Pikachu: When can I see it?
Universal Pictures are hoping to start showing the live-action Pokemon film outside of Japan on 2019’s Mothers Day, May 10th 2019. Disney’s Avengers will be released a week prior. Which is smart from Universal because the sales will be disastrous for a Pokemon movie the same week as Avengers. Sorry Pikachu!