Overcooked

Move aside, Cooking Mama! Team17 Digital Ltd.'s OVERCOOKED is the most fun you'll have with a cooking game, yet! Available on Steam, XBox One, PS4, and most recently on the Nintendo Switch!

Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Wednesday, 16 August 2017

Chefs, welcome to Overcooked! The Onion Kingdom is a rich world full of cruel and unusual kitchens for you to conquer. Take part in an epic journey and tackle an increasingly challenging and bizarre gauntlet of kitchens which will push your skills of co-operation and co-ordination to the very limits.

Each level brings a new challenge for you and your team to overcome, whether it’s sliding around on a pirate ship, moving between speeding trucks, cooking on an ice floe or serving food in the bowels of a fiery underworld, each level will test the mettle of even the bravest chefs.

Play solo or engage in classic, chaotic couch co-op for up to four players in both co-operative and competitive challenge modes. You’ll have to cook a range of different dishes and work together in order to become the most effective and ultimate team! (Team17 YouTube Description)

To buy Overcooked please click here!

Naruto to Boruto Shinobi Striker

We just got our hands on Naruto to Boruto Shinobi Striker: when we got to pop into Bandai Namco’s london offices.

You can go head -to-head in 4v4 samurai fights, yes that’s 8 swords flying through a map at the same time!

The full game boasts a ‘virtual reality story mode’

Order it here!

Gundam Versus

We recently got our hands the mecha-madness that is Gundam Versus.

The fifth generation in the series promises new kick ass moves such as ‘Boost Drive’ making last minute drops on to your enemy very easy and hundreds of unlocks/ upgrades that will mean you can custom build your mecha warrior to unleash unique style of ass whooping that is unique!

Order Gundam Versus here!

Ni No Kuni II

Could this be “Zelda for the PS4”?

We recently got our hands on Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom when we got to pop into Bandai Namco’s london offices.

It’s an upcoming role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.

The game is a sequel to Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, and is scheduled to be released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 on January 19, 2018.

Order Ni No Kuni II here!

Dragon Ball Fighter Z

We recently got our hands on next installation of the hugely popular Dragon Ball Fighter Z!

With a fluid fight mechanic with 3 vs 3 tag team battles and super Saiyan Moves that put you right in the middle of literal earth shattering battles; there is a lot to see in Dragon Ball Fighter Z! With anime graphics it looks like you are fighting from right within the cartoon Dragon Ball world!

To Pre-Order Dragon Ball Fighter Z click here!

2017’s Most Famous Meme

The years most famous meme, you know the one with the disapproving girlfriend scoulding her boyfriend for checking out another woman. No one is more suprised that it’s been memefied so to speak than the photographer that took it. Antonio Guillem a 45 year old photographer from Barcelona.

He usually takes stock photos and most of his porfolio consists of exaclty what we see in the meme, a man and two women in a situation that provokes a reacitve pose in one of the models.

Speaking to Wired.com Guillem said that he wanted to step away from what he usually does and produce some imagery that represents ‘infidelity concept in relationships in a fun and playful way”

Thus the years most famous meme was born! “Disloyal man walking with his girlfriend and looking amazed at another seductive girl” became to be famous for the reason that not what it was intended for but we all love it anyway.

 

Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite – Hands on!

 

We recently got our hands on next installation of the hugely popular Marvel Vs Capcom series: Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite!

The fight mechanic that we all know and love is back, tag team battles and fast paced movements, lots of lights and sounds illuminate the screen to cause fast paced, crazy, mayhem and not forgetting a lot of fun!

The Marvel vs Capcom series puts two of your favourite gaming and movie franchises up against one another in a frantic and colourful battle to determine once and for all who is the better franchise! Take on the Hulk and Iron Man or even team up and take on each other with both franchises able to team up with a member of the opposing clan!

We only got to check out multiplayer & battle mode but there is a story mode whereby you can team up and take on a series of challenges and bosses to save the world!

To pre-order Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite please click here!

 

 

Hot Tug

We recently sent Producer Molly out on the road, along with her friend Steph to find out exactly what driving a Hot Tub around Regents canal on a summer’s evening felt like. Find out how everything went down here:howtokillanhour.com/events-activities/hot-tug Marcus Bronzy Funk Butcher DJ Ace Nick Bright HotTug UK

Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Thursday, 7 September 2017

We recently sent Producer Molly and her friend Steph along to 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!

It costs £220 for the whole HotTug (fits up to 7 ppl)

Our experience lasts for 2 hours, with 90 minutes of time in the water. After a greeting by one of our captains who will run through a safety and instructional demonstration, you will then have 90 minutes sailing time on the water. An amazing chance to relax and unwind. 

This is an incredibly relaxing and fun experience in the centre of London, it is truly unique.

On site we have lockers for storage, along with basic shower and changing facilities. Please bring towels and swimwear, although these along with robes can also be purchased or rented on site. Our site offers privacy for when you board the boat. (Hot Tug UK) 

 

Footballers Wages: How Long Would It Take?

Footballers wages are an incredible amount of money and would take the regular person like you or I hundreds of years to earn the amount of money they earn annually. For example Neymar the world’s most expensive footballer earns £775, 477 A WEEK! A WEEK! (Think I need to sit down!)

According to a report by Sporting Intelligence the average wage for a Premier League footballer was £2.4m annually, which is £46k per week, that is more than the average worker in the UK earns in a year! (BBC)

The guys over at BBC sport compiled a handy sporting calculator to figure just how long it would take for us to earn the same amount as your favourite footballing superstars. (Remember, this is without spending a penny to you know, actually live)

App To Help Discover Cancer?

Pancreatic cancer has a very low survival rate with just 9% of patients surviving 5 years or less. A large contributing factor to this is that there is no visible symptoms and by the time it is discovered the cancer is already very advanced. But researchers at the University of Washington have hopefully invented an accurate way to test the early signs of cancer, by themselves.

An app called BiliScreen may well be the way to discovering pancreatic cancer early, by using a smartphone’s camera, it uses computer vision algorithm to detect the chemical bilirubin in the whites of a persons eyes.

This is important because with pancreatic cancer, bilirubin levels start to increase and eventually turn a persons whites of their eye turn yellow, in which case the cancer is already highly developed. Cheaper and a lot easier than a blood test, BiliScreen is able to detect the levels of bilirubin and warn a user if their levels are abnormally high.

The app must be used in a special box to block out ambient light, or paper coloured glasses that the app is calibrated too. Biliscreen is said to be 90% accurate as a blood test, in identifying concerning levels of bilirubin when tested with a 70-person clinical study.