Friday Foxer #208

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.

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The Fight for Faire Bissone (A communal Combat Mission experiment)

In the past I’ve asked Cornerites and Flareopaths to choreograph CM scraps set in France, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, North Africa, and the Middle East. Something I’ve never done though, is supervised a game inspired by a historical engagement, and shared a room with order issuers. Reader TV-PressPass is eight turns into just such an experiment.

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Task Force Admiral trial tantalisingly close

That rumble you can hear is the sound of Drydock Dreams Games’ aft elevator lifting a public TFA demo into the sunlight. If all goes according to plan, by this time next month the ascender’s wings will have been unfolded and locked in place, and its cockpit gauge needles will be pointing in the directions they need to point to guarantee trouble-free take-offs for trialists.

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Friday Foxer #207

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.

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“Some of the strangest sorties you’ll ever fly” – Remembering Stunt Island

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 a nine-hundred word billet doux to Stunt Island (£2 at present at GOG) penned in the year the Syrian Civil War began, and Osama bin Laden, Muammar Gadaffi, and Kim Jong Il died.

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