If the EU’s habit of co-funding vapourware doesn’t bother you, then I suspect you won’t be overly concerned by the fact that their grant granters, Creative Europe, openly discriminate against many of the Continent’s most talented, successful, and commercially minded developers.
Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers. All are welcome to participate.
Seven quid buys a prodigious quantity of gripping guerre at Fanatical.com right now. Using the site’s Build Your Own Special Editions Bundle option, you can snag Field of Glory II Complete, plus a fully-DLCed copy of Fantasy General II, for a combined price of £6.99. Purchasing the same pair through Steam today would set you back £171.
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 Trucker, a fetching £20 diversion that makes no realism claims whatsoever.
The unashamedly political People Make Games cause me to sigh and splutter my Earl Grey from time to time, but the world of game journalism would be a much poorer place without their heavyweight investigations. Their latest free-to-watch video essay runs for over an hour and looks at the fascinating business of serious gaming.
I’m not saying the first three minutes of this CMAK contest were uneventful, but when the TV camera panned across the grandstands at the end of Turn 3, I noticed several people scrutinising phones or reading newspapers, and at least one spectator fast asleep. Said spectator awakes with a start 40 seconds into Turn 4 when the clatter of 20mm autocannon fire reverberates around the stadium.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
This year the European Union will spend around seven million Euros on video game development. Is this sizeable sum likely to be expended wisely? Having looked at some of the games Brussels has helped fund in the past, I have doubts.