Corner Confessions is for sharing guilty gaming secrets. Secrets like… I yearn for the days when graphics options screens consisted of nothing but a resolution selection, and a detail slider with three choices: low, medium, and high.
Want to turn a green lane into a brown lane, tow a Gulaschkanone across a snowy field, or roam the Western Desert trashing Axis airfields? Get a 4×4. Want quick introductions to games of interest to realism relishers and old…
Dagger Directive is retro done right. I came to this conclusion weeks ago, but last night’s gripping airfield infiltration mission underscored it. Between me and my goal – a Prighozin-type mercenary leader and a batch of nicked Novichok – were…
Corner Confessions is for sharing guilty gaming secrets. The series will, I promise, contain the odd bombshell, but I’m going to kick it off with a thunderflash: Although I’ve been playing truck sims for nigh-on twenty years I’m still pretty…
A is for Awfully big snap. In 2006 six artists turned an abandoned USMC hangar in California into the world’s largest pinhole camera and used it to create the world’s biggest print photograph. While free sim The Great Picture doesn’t…
Derelict factory environment? Check. Container-cluttered port? Check. ‘Woodpecker’ over-the-horizon-radar array? Check. Three of Early Access Acrodrift’s half-dozen drone playgrounds are a little hackneyed. Fortunately, a couple of the others are unforgettable.
I wish my two current squeezes, Dagger Directive and Infinite Orienteering: The Hiker’s Path, could get together and produce a kid. As gratifying as it is to round a boulder or barge into a clearing and find the orange-and-white control…
U is for Undeserved neglect. Sometimes I’m so busy searching out the obscure and quirky, I fail to give the megafauna of the sim and wargame fields the attention it deserves. SCS Software, the studio that almost singlehandedly created the…
La Forge du Code doesn’t seem to have profited greatly from a week-long advertising stint on the Corner (After an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign the French dev behind the unusually foggy Kriegsspiel ~ 7 Years’ War is now considering his options).…
Yesterday evening command of the Sabre-rattling 12th FBS squadron passed to Major Furnace Amberwick after Major Terence Torrance, my alter aero for much of the past week, failed to return from a bomber interception mission near Old Baldy. The fact…