HeliNews
The HeliNews theme tune is crafted from a selection of whirlybird sound samples. The HeliNews anchor sits behind a desk made from an AH-64 stub wing, and, after delivering his topical snippets, is winched out of shot by a Pegasus…
Maziac
Friday Foxer #195
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
63 Days, innumerable corpses
If plotting the demise of distractible Deutschlanders floats your Schwimmwagen, an already great year is about to get even better. In a couple of hour’s time, 63 Days, the Warsaw Uprising-themed sequel to War Mongrels, sidles onto Steam.
The Burden of Command demo is just days away
I’ve been writing about Green Tree Games’ WW2 “leadership RPG” off and on for over seven years. Yesterday, I finally got to try it.
OVRLRD isn’t quite ready for keyboard mechwarriors yet
When developer Niall Slater fixed the bug that was preventing me and other keyboard & mouse users from starting up OVRLRD’s bipedal steeds, I jumped straight into a clickable cockpit and hotfooted it to the weapon range. Unfortunately, I’d only…
Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 6
Mars, Ares, Odin, Huītzilōpōchtli… I’ve been fortunate enough to interview quite a few gods of war during my time as a wargame correspondent. While most of them seemed to respect bravery and self-sacrifice, to a man/deity they all sneered, sniggered,…
Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Thoughts of the Thankful: EU grant recipients defend the programme
Having spent the last two Fridays mercilessly lambasting the EU’s attempts to boost the game development sector, I feel it’s only fair to let some beneficiaries of Creative Europe grants tell their side of the story today. Below the break,…