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We just revealed the name of #secretproject2 on its brand new Facebook page. Please give it a like and follow us on twitter for more exciting news!

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WE MADE IT! Thank you everyone for voting, sharing, retweeting. Words can describe how overwhelmed and happy I am right now. Thank you so much for all your support.

There were over 4000 entries this year and I’m  beyond delighted to be one of the very few who made it through to the finals! What a great way for us to start 2018!

I promise that I will work extra hard to deliver more exciting and exclusive content for you all.

As you know we are also working on something major and huge and this will be revealed later this month.

Once again, thank you for all your support and votes. Thank you for reading Tomb of Ash, following us on social media, commenting, tweeting, liking. 

Now to book that trip to London…

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When I moved to Manchester, I realised that I couldn’t take my Virgin Media fibre contract with me, as Virgin doesn’t cover this area. As such, I decided to switch to Sky Broadband (not much of a choice, as there was no alternative). Sky offered “super-fast” ADSL that would take a day to download the latest update for ARK – in theory. In reality, it took three days, since the connection would drop every time someone else in the building used the lift. No, really; this is a genuine problem.

It took me over a month of constant calls with Sky, and going through this stupid “turn it off and turn it back on again” procedure with their customer service (who also kept referring to Megabits as Megabytes), before they actually sent around an engineer who confirmed that poor wiring in the lift shaft was the problem.

One day, I noticed a Telcom Velocity poster in the hallway of our apartment block. I wrote their website address down, did some research, and eventually signed up for a contract with them. Needless to say, I terminated my Sky contract.

Telcom turned out to be even better than Virgin Media. I won’t even compare it to Sky’s broadband. We get a stable 150 Mbps for download and upload; while Virgin caps your upload speed to about 7Mbps. Telcom’s routers are also super fancy, it’s a Tp-Link Archer C5 with USB ports and excellent coverage that is all included in your monthly bill (with Virgin, I had to pay extra for Superhub 3.0).

The router manages to handle two hard drives, and a Smart bulb hub on top of many other devices that connect via WiFi. I even run an ARK server on this router, with no issues for me or for other players!

Another great thing about Telcom? Their customer service.

When I joined Telcom, they ran a competition on Twitter, asking people to tweet them a photo of black cabs with Telcom promotional vinyl on them. I participated and got this, delivered personally by a member of their own staff to my door:

In November last year, Manchester was hit by some serious storms and floods. On the 17^th of November, we had lights flickering and the Internet went down for approximately 30 minutes. I didn’t even consider complaining; the power outage was quite understandable, and their service had always been exceptional anyway. But, as it turns out, I didn’t even need to complain, as I received this email the next day:

 Telcom is a prime example of how a company that cares about its customers should be run. I’m looking to buy a house next year, and I dread the thought that I might need to switch to another provider as Telcom currently covers only a few areas around Manchester.

PS. I wasn’t paid to write this review

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Simply head on over to the UK Blog Awards website and give us a quick vote by filling in a short form with your name and email at the bottom of the page  

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Tina performed various themes from games and films including Uncharted, Skyrim and Tetris! The latter was absolutely superb by the way, my inner Russian was dancing! 

Here we have a collection of photos from the show. 

Peter Connelly, our friend and composer for Tomb Raider, kindly gave us the tickets.

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We were taking pics with Core Design at the end of PLAY Expo weekend last year and I noticed that quite a few fans were still around and were looking at us; I then quickly invited them to join our pics. What a crazy weekend it was. This is how memories are made  

Our first annual Tomb Raider meetup is happening this year at PLAY Expo. Check this link for details.

Missed our 20 Years of Tomb Raider at PLAY Expo coverage or feeling nostalgic? 

GO HERE:

https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/20-years-of-tomb-raider-at-play-expo-2016-a-recap/ 

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