Tally-Ho Corner

June 23, 2025

A2E

A is for Affordable angling games. It’s not too late to grab a price-slashed piscatorial plaything on Steam. Ending in approximately seven hours’ time, the emporium’s nearly-over Fishing Fest includes two of my current fishy favourites, Ultimate Fishing Simulator (£2) and Fisher Online (£7), and well-received newcomers such as Cast n Chill – a £10 side-scrolling charmer with fifty catchable species and thirteen stunning backdrops – and Intergalactic Fishing – a £3 top-down curio with innumerable procedurally generated lakes and fish types.

June 23, 2025

Where am I?

Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.

June 20, 2025

Maximum fog-of-war (A Q&A with a blind wargamer)

If you frequent certain forums at Matrix Games, Subsim, and Reddit you may have come across posts written by today’s interviewee, ‘BlindGuyNW’. As his online handle suggests, Zack wargames by ear and touch rather than eye. In many battle sims this approach is simply impractical, but not in all.

June 20, 2025

Friday Foxer #233

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.

June 18, 2025

Sod Minecraft, Warcraft, and Roadcraft, we need Cushioncraft

Yesterday I ticked another vehicle off my transport bucket list: hovercraft. Inevitably, while being whisked across the Solent by a descendant of Christopher Cockerell’s SR.N1, my mind turned to the question of why these marvelous machines still lack a serious dedicated PC sim.

June 16, 2025

Panzer III (Three new tank games trundling in our direction)

As strong, original tank sim names are hard to come by nowadays, and many of Spearhead 2’s potential customers probably won’t be old enough to remember that Spearhead 1 wasn’t up to much, perhaps MicroProse’s latest choice of title isn’t as questionable as it first appears.

June 16, 2025

Where am I?

Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.

June 13, 2025

Return to Riesberg (Remembering the very first Combat Mission demo)

For many, the love affair with Combat Mission began with Chance Encounter and Valley of Trouble, the astonishingly replayable CMBO demo scenarios that showcased Big Time Software’s brave new world of 3D WeGo wargaming so well. It’s easy to forget that this genre-jolting trial had a predecessor.