Unreal Tournaments – An hour with Joust

Best known for enabling French speakers to chinwag with Napoleon without the aid of a Ouija board, Vestigia, a games studio founded by three historians, is also keen to explain and shatter the finer points of jousting.

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Armored Brigade 2 is nearly here and looking awesome

The wallets of many digital wargamers will be feather light by the end of November if both Triassic Games and Veitikka Studios make their deadlines. Due next month, Armored Brigade 2 seems intent on occupying the sunlit uplands between playable, pacy military RTSs such as WARNO and Wargame and slower, denser, grog pleasers such as Combat Mission and Graviteam Tactics.

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Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 7

The inauspiciously named Corporal Bignon fires his cumbersome bolt-action elephant gun four times during the course of Turn 7. Three 0.55 calibre armour harmers whizz in the direction of a zealous scout car, while the other outsized bullet attempts to arrest the westward progress of a cavalier Panzer III.

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HeliNews

The HeliNews theme tune is crafted from a selection of whirlybird sound samples. The HeliNews anchor sits behind a desk made from an AH-64 stub wing, and, after delivering his topical snippets, is winched out of shot by a Pegasus Rescue Hoist mounted on the studio ceiling.

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63 Days, innumerable corpses

If plotting the demise of distractible Deutschlanders floats your Schwimmwagen, an already great year is about to get even better. In a couple of hour’s time, 63 Days, the Warsaw Uprising-themed sequel to War Mongrels, sidles onto Steam.

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