Apologies, I was too busy glugging Lemsip and mopping up snot in late December to put together the usual end-of-year digest. As my sinuses no longer feel like treacle-soaked sponges, my throat like a frogspawn-filled flute, here’s a belated look…
…will you show me yours? My Steam ‘Year in Review’ for 2024 contained a few surprises. For instance, I was somewhat taken aback to discover that I’d fired up Tabletop Simulator 208 times last year, and, for 49 consecutive days…
Recent forum posts and Steam news items indicate Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts and Ultimate General: American Revolution will get no further updates. As eagle-eyed genre analyst The Historical Gamer noted in a Boxing Day video, the fact that pivotal GL personnel…
In the past I’ve asked Cornerites and Flareopaths to choreograph CM scraps set in France, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, North Africa, and the Middle East. Something I’ve never done though, is supervised a game inspired…
That rumble you can hear is the sound of Drydock Dreams Games’ aft elevator lifting a public TFA demo into the sunlight. If all goes according to plan, by this time next month the ascender’s wings will have been unfolded…
Quite a few articles on this site could legitimately begin with “You’ve probably never heard of this game before” but until today I don’t believe I’ve ever had cause to commence one with “You’ve definitely never heard of this game…
Last night one of my Armored Brigade II BMP-2s had a very lucky escape. Cluster-bombed by a marauding Phantom, it would have been dead as a doornail if the bomb in question had been a standard CBU not a training…
Fellow passengers in Train Sim World rarely make eye contact let alone start conversations. Last Wednesday, however, while riding the virtual 15:11 from London Victoria to Epsom, my daydreams were interrupted by a cheery “Hello Tim!”.
In my part of the world, roe deer are the undisputed contour kings. They know their territories intimately, and when surprised in open country invariably dash for the nearest hollow, or retreat behind the closest LoS-breaking rise or hillock. To…
Typical. The day after I send Slitherine a slew of questions, I think of another I really should have asked: “Now you own Battlefront, why not put together a small team and start releasing new CMx1 instalments?”. How many nostalgic…
If you’re a regular wearer of cargo pants you’ll know the importance of a thorough pre-laundry garment frisk. This morning while searching the numerous pockets of my battle breeches in preparation for a forty degree Easy Care cycle, I came…
Not inappropriately, my first Armored Brigade II casualty was a Fox. One of two scout cars secreted amongst trees on the eastern edge of the Bohemian village of Staré Sedlo, the AFV in question decided to take on a mob…