My first taste of just-launched TSW5 hasn’t exactly inspired confidence. Over breakfast I had a wander around Euston Station – the London end of the sim’s fairly short stretch of West Coast Main Line – and chanced upon a couple…
Decades of playing games that strive to replicate real vehicles and real battles has rewired my brain in ‘interesting’ ways. The other day, while pushing a wheelbarrow down a garden path, I found myself mentally interrogating the realism in Star…
I’ve just learned that Ilan Papini, the chap behind thoroughly likeable sims such as Virtual Sailor and Vehicle Simulator, died in February from injuries sustained in a plane crash. The ICP Savannah piloted by the 60-year-old developer, suffered a bird…
Me and Roman spent a small portion of last weekend in a thorny corner of Wessex, chucking plastic platters at chain-draped metal baskets. We’d decided to give disc golf a try after enjoying the demo for FLEX Disc Golf. Has…
Isla, THC’s accountant, can’t grumble about my game expenditure this week. Assuming I don’t purchase anything tomorrow, I’ll have spent a piffling £1.79 on interactive entertainment over the past seven days. Although I already own Bus Driver Simulator – one…
A is for Abbreviated digest of game news. The only thing the following stories/games have in common is that they rubbed shoulders on the Corner on a breezy August day in 2024.
A comment posted below this recent piece opened my eyes to the wonderful world of Armoured Commander 2 modding. Not that you’d know it from perusing AC2’s Steam page or forum (the modders share their wares via Discord) but Sudasana’s…
As the sellotape used to attach this demo disc to the THC front cover is specially designed to be impervious to scraping fingernails and to deface the glossy cover art when removed, we recommend you enjoy what you can see…
Since her birth late last year, Ada, my Cornerite-specced PC, has hosted around sixty different games and game demos. Of that sixty, I can’t think of any that have entertained me as consummately as the astonishing Rush Rally 3.
Four things you possibly didn’t know about Hakodate. 1) It’s a port city on the island/prefecture of Hokkaido. 2) In 1934 it was devastated by a fire that killed 2166 people. 3) In 1976 a MiG-25 Foxbat piloted by Soviet…
Seldom mentioned in reviews, main menu screens are, of course, the most important aspect of any game. I’m sure I’m not the only one who instantly uninstalls a new purchase if I don’t like the main menu artwork, then hunts…
Thanks to a gifted layout artisan called Rinston, owners of railway modelling sim Rolling Line can now drive Lilliputian locos around a stylised recreation of Half-Life 2’s City 17.