Today’s off-topic articlette is inspired by a recent comment from an Italy-based Cornerite. If you visit THC regularly, chances are you have an avid interest in history, and, like Nutfield and myself, have at least one found, inherited, or purchased historical artefact in your home. Below the jump I describe a few of my ‘treasures’ in the hope that some of you follow suit.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Choosing winners in the TFA screenshot competition proved harder than expected, but the Hanging Committee (myself, Amiral Crapaud, Julien, and Reis) did eventually manage to skim the double-cream from the cream. The four fab images that bagged prizes are displayed below along with some of the other rectangular reasons judging was so difficult.
I’ve written hundreds of articles during my twenty-odd years as a games inspector. While some make me cringe with embarrassment when I read them today, a few like the 2011 Eurogamer piece posted below, arguably warrant a second airing.
Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers. All are welcome to participate.
Pinch me. Almost nine years after I first got wind of it, Burden of Command is finally trickling onto my PC. As I’m not permitted to share opinions until the day of release (April 8th) and feel a game this long-awaited and this groundbreaking deserves a bit of prep on my part, I don’t plan to start playing the moment that button up there changes colour. Before diving in I’d like to play a few of the hex wargames that BoC most closely resembles, and read and watch my way into a frame of mind appropriate for computer wargaming’s first…
V is for Vintage vroom. If anything is likely to lure me back to open wheel sim racing, it’s the work of Assetto Corsa enrichers, Historic Sim Studios. Using their payware and gratis race cars and circuits, it’s possible to recreate the wild youth of the sport that eventually became F1.
Some forgotten PC games deserve eternal obscurity. Recently winched from the Russian bog where it’s sat for the past sixteen years, WW2 RPG Partisan is just such a game.