Clustered

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 weapon packed with harmless wargaming news bomblets.

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Beware Urban Strife’s un-undead

While shambling cadavers are by no means the least of your worries in engaging turnbased team tactics title Urban Strife (Picking stylish headgear, or deciding whether to belt a melee opponent with a frying pan, monkey wrench, or rolling pin, are more trivial concerns) the game’s zombies don’t focus the mind and quicken the pulse as proficiently as members of rival survivor gangs such as the Gatherers.

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Review Reprise: Steel Armor – Blaze of War

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. Below the jump you’ll find an approbatory appraisal of Steel Armor: Blaze of War, a 2011 tank sim that bypassed the beaten track.

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