Friday Foxer #228
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a whizz at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not lend a hand.
Maziac
“I’m not driven by a profit motive” – Gregory Adam Scott on money, martial fatigue, and museum visits
Five years ago today, Early Access Armoured Commander 2 hit Steam. Part-time developer, full -time academic, Gregory Adam Scott promised “over a year of planned additions and updates” in his first post-launch communique. What he and his customers didn’t know…
Sling your hook, Ultimate Fishing Simulator 2
Too eager to please and blighted by buggy reflections, so-so scenery, and flawed cameras, Ultimate Fishing Simulator 2’s stay on the THC toe-warmer was mayfly brief. Within ninety minutes of making my first cast, I’d had enough and was reinstalling…
Angling for an armour sim angst alleviator
Tank Squad missions can be pretty intense. When you’re not scanning scenery for dialed-in AT guns, trading AP rounds with T-34s and KV-1s, or attempting to evade mortar barrages, you’re often dealing with aggressive enemy infantry, directing your own dismounts,…
Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Win action-packed Panzer sim Tank Squad
I spent yesterday evening in the company of Steam’s youngest armour game and during three hours of exciting Eastern Front action managed to engineer the downfall of numerous Tigers and Panzer IVs. If simcade Tank Squad was a T-34 or…
Friday Foxer #227
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.
VE Day freebie
To mark the 80th anniversary of VE day, 1CGS is giving away IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad’s first DLC and price slashing (-80%) the numerous add-ons that followed it. Available for nowt for the next 38 hours through il2sturmovik.com, Battle…
Review Reprise: The Mystery of the Druids
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…
London calling
If anything is guaranteed to make a patriotic English wargamer’s blood boil, it’s the sight of a Nazi flag flying over Buck House. Yesterday, a few hours after watching the Red Arrows stripe the sky over the King’s unpretentious London…