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Dad, gamer, husband, and sometimes.. a noob.

Gamebreak: January 2015 with Brian – HTG

(HTG) Brian takes a few minutes to talk upcoming games, Lego Harry Potter, HTG Tshirts, Facebook contests and Channel support which is a new feature that YouTube offers. Grab a chair and hang out for a few, and let us catch you up on what has been going on with HappyThumbsGaming. Make sure if you […]

Plantronics RIG Headset Review – HTG

MSRP: $99.99 Unboxing & Packaging: The Plantronics RIG Gaming Headset comes in a display box that showcases the headset in a sturdy box that actually has a swinging cover to enable a consumer to view the headset directly without even having to open the box.  Inside the hard shell box, the RIG is tightly fastened, but easily removed […]

Gamebreak: Weekly Update w/ Mal Oct 11 – HTG

(HTG) Mal breaks down what has been going on and encourages you guys to connect with us on our other social pages found below. Mal also talks about OctoberTest and explains a few tests we are running including Twitch streams. If you guys have any suggestions or requests for us, please drop a comment below […]

Plantronics RIG Headset: Unboxing (First Look) – HTG

(HTG) Brian unboxes a Plantronics RIG Headset in preparations for a review. We met up with Plantronics at PAX Prime 2014 and smoozed our way into a RIG for review! These headsets are MSRP $99.00 and can be found at most retailers. We will be doing a full review on the Plantronics RIG Headset in […]

Loot Crate: September Unboxing with Rhyse – HTG

(HTG) Rhyse unboxes the September LootCrate which featured a “Galactic” theme for the month. Watch Rhyse open up the Galactic LootCrate featuring all things Space, including Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, E.T., and more! Have you signed up for lootcrate yet? If not we have you covered. How does 20% off your first order sound? […]

Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor: PAX 2014 Interview with Lead Designer Bob Roberts – HTG

(HTG) Brian gets a quick (and borderline painful) interview with Monolith Studios lead game designer for Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor, Bob Roberts. Brian lets Bob take the lead and talk about the soon to come Middle-earth Shadow of Mordor which has been one of our most requested up coming titles to date! Hopefully this […]

The Golf Club: Video Review – HTG

(HTG) Brian reviews The Golf Club out now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The Golf club gets a full video review to go along with the written golf club review which can be found on our main website (link below). TGC is a golf simulator and captures the realness of the game by […]

The Golf Club Review – HTG

The game of golf to many is an up and coming sport, while others have been at it for years. I myself have roughly 30 years of golf experience under my belt, and as someone who has been around the game their entire life, I always like to check out new golf IPs. The Golf […]

Chaos Heroes Online: Closed Beta Footage – HTG

Link to Chaos Heroes Online Beta: http://bit.ly/1qc204T (HTG) Brian takes you into a match of Chaos Heroes Online which is a new MOBA from Aeria Games. Chaos Heroes Online is a spin off from Dota: Chaos and proves to bring similar art and concepts, but with greater precision. Game play focusing on consumables, Map Mobility […]

Chaos Heroes Online: First Look (Tutorials 1 and 2) – HTG

Link to Chaos Heroes Online Beta: http://bit.ly/1qc204T (HTG) Brian takes a First Look at Chaos Heroes Online which is a new MOBA from Aeria Games. Chaos Heroes Online is a spin off from Dota: Chaos and proves to bring similar art and concepts, but with greater precision. Game play focusing on consumables, Map Mobility and […]

An interview with a real life “LEGO Master Builder” – HTG

It’s no secret that LEGO has taken over the world! The LEGO phenomenon has been growing right before our eyes more and more each year. More than likely you found HappyThumbsGaming from some of our LEGO Trophy/Achievement Playlists that we offer on our YouTube channel. So we have been trying to expand our overall LEGO […]

H-Hour World’s Elite gets major makeover! – HTG

So as most of you know, SOF Studios has been working hard for quite some time now to bring back tactical based gameplay with H-Hour World’s Elite. Recently it was revealed that the “Proof of Concept” had reached its limit and most if not all accomplishments had been reached, and that it was time to […]

Lego The Hobbit: “Team Building” Trophy/Achievement – HTG

Trophy/Achievement: “Team Building” (Bronze)(10G) – Use every Dwarf from Thorin’s Company in a Buddy-Up Attack (see list below) Location: Anywhere, but we suggest FREE PLAY mission The Battle of Azog – “Battle of Azanulbizar” section due to amount of enemies. (HTG) Brian shows you how to ring off the Team Building trophy/achievement for Lego The […]

Watch Dogs: “White Rabbit Object” Trophy/Achievement (Method for 15 easy escapes) – HTG

Trophy/Achievement: “White Rabbit Object” (Silver)(30G) — Escape 15 police scans Location: Anywhere, but we suggest The Loop area at Tobias’s shop as a great starting point (HTG) Brian shows you how to ring off the White Rabbit Object trophy/achievement for Watch Dogs from UbiSoft. The White Rabbit Object Trophy/Achievement for Watch Dogs requires you to […]

No more next gen ports !! – HTG

Next Gen porting has seemed to become the new standard, and I think it is time that somebody says something about it. I am in no way stating I don’t enjoy a classic being remastered that was possibly an all time favorite of many, but re-doing or remastering games that are less then 18 months […]

YouTube and meta-tags (what is a spam tag) – HTG

  Hello again everybody, today I wanted to talk about something that is actually effecting a ton of current YouTubers out there. This of course would be the dreaded excessive meta or “spam tags.” Why do we feel we should touch on this subject? To be honest we had heard of 100,000+ subscriber channels just […]