Friday Foxer #227
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.
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VE Day freebie
To mark the 80th anniversary of VE day, 1CGS is giving away IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad’s first DLC and price slashing (-80%) the numerous add-ons that followed it. Available for nowt for the next 38 hours through il2sturmovik.com, Battle of Moscow comes with eight steeds, the rangiest of which is the Ju 88 A-4, the dinkiest/dumpiest, the I-16.
Review Reprise: The Mystery of the Druids
I’ve written hundreds of reviews, previews, and retrospectives during my twenty-odd years as a games inspector. As many of these appeared in the British version of PC Gamer magazine and nowhere else, now and again something from my archive may appear as one of THC’s daily posts. In late September 2001, inexplicably* PC Gamer asked me to step outside my heavily militarised comfort zone and review a point-and-click adventure.
London calling
If anything is guaranteed to make a patriotic English wargamer’s blood boil, it’s the sight of a Nazi flag flying over Buck House. Yesterday, a few hours after watching the Red Arrows stripe the sky over the King’s unpretentious London crib, I returned to the Mall in the company of a force of tea-fuelled commandos and far-from-formidable British tanks.
Vietnam War has to be the most holistic military FPS ever made
A thoughtful Cornerite drew my attention to this extraordinary Early Access FPS. The email Bekay sent was so arresting and informative, it deserves to be reproduced in full.
Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Steam recommendations for alphabetical completists
Mildly troubled by the fact that your Steam library doesn’t contain games beginning with all 26 letters of the alphabet? The following list of top-notch time-killers is designed to help completists fill gaps wisely. In its original form THC’s Steam Alphabet only reflects the preferences of two people: me and Roman. However, with your help it could morph into something broader over coming weeks.
Friday Foxer #226
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.