A is for Alphabetised game news. There’s nothing especially original about the way I gather game news. Like other reporters, every so often I set cage traps baited with chunks of old telephone directory or stale urinal cake in likely places (roundabout islands, amusement arcades, deconsecrated churches…) and return the following day with crossed fingers and an empty Sack For Life.
Corporal Whitehand ends turn 2 surrounded by armour. Fortunately for him the close-range stuff is bipedal, medieval, and empty, and the more distant specimens are currently unaware rogue American POWs are at large in the castle.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
When I put down my microphone last Friday we were just about to plunge into Shildon Tunnel. In Locomotion, the Dr Who script I’m almost ready to pitch to the BBC, navvies digging this hill hole in 1840 unwittingly rouse the monstrous Shildon Worm sparking four episodes of creepy/claustrophobic capers involving animal-loving S&DR financier Joseph Pease, no-nonsense loco engineer Timothy Hackworth, and the sixteenth Doctor (who reliable sources at the Beeb tell me will be played by Basil Brush not Billie Piper).
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.
When Mark Judd began self-publishing, indie game developers were as rare as hen dentists. After a lengthy hiatus, the chap behind pleasingly physical diversions such as Detonate*, X-Sail, and Vertigo has returned to the fray recently with a new instalment of his explosive demolition sim.
Splendid – we now have enough volunteers to begin Bouncing the Bogen! In Turn 1, thanks to orders issued by half a dozen game Cornerites, kit jangles and leaf springs flex on the heavily wooded western side of the river, and, inside Schloss Nottingheim, boots beat quick tattoos on cold cobblestones.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.