I’ve written hundreds of reviews, previews, and retrospectives during my twenty-odd years as a games inspector. As many of these appeared in the British version of PC Gamer magazine and nowhere else, now and again something from my archive may…
The warriors that traverse the rail bridge during Turn 8 are all sprinting Tommy infantrymen. The munitions that whip across its mossy stonework are far more diverse. Speeding 9mm, .303, .50 cal, 20mm, 40mm, and 95mm rounds ensure the south-west…
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Sometime in the early Noughties a bright spark at Activision realised flogging (mostly) mediocre PC games at budget prices would be slightly easier if the boxes the mediocrities came in were emblazoned with ‘The History Channel’. By chance one of…
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…
V is for Very well received Fulcrum. It’s not often a new DCS flyable gets a reception as warm as the one the new MiG-29A has received. Perusing the forums, praise of the flight model and framerate impact is particularly…
Q is for Quick trade card. The collectible shown below was disgorged by a coin-operated railway station weighing machine some time in the 1950s. Small compared to most cigarette and tea cards, the 24 cards in the British Automatic Company’s…
L is for Lacking linesmen. Football Referee Simulator almost earned itself a Police Week article. Until Referee Simulator and Football Referee Simulator 26 arrive, Vladimir Pilashkun’s 2D effort has the ref sim genre pretty much to itself. Because you don’t…
Volkssturm militiamen biding their time in camouflaged foxholes close to the rail bridge espy an irresistible target early in Turn 7. Unfortunately for Sergeant Venison, the target in question is him and his bank-traversing half-team.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.