A is for Alphabetised wargame, sim, and site news. Now and again, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a few days scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories with…
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…
Today’s article is inspired by an eye-opening conversation I had with a developer pal recently. My friend creates bespoke business software and over the last year has become a firm fan of AI-assisted coding. His enthusiasm got me thinking. Are…
Grunts don’t give armour enough respect, tinned tuna is too common in inventories, and the Gurkhas don’t carry kukris. If you held a Luger to my head I guess I could come up with a few criticisms of Easy Red…
A is for Alphabetised wargame, sim, and site news. Now and again, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a few days scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories with…
Computer wargames and combat sims are dab hands at history dissemination and tactical instruction, but how well do they teach the rules of war? Let’s find out. Beyond the break are twenty questions designed to test your knowledge of International…
It’s rare but not unknown for the work of one studio to appear on two Stone Tablets – the A4-sized sandstone slabs upon which my personal ‘Top Fives’ in various game genres are engraved. Graviteam, for example, feature on both…
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…
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…
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…