Gaming websites like Europagamer, PGC, and Clock Draper Spudgun, change their headers once in a blue moon. Here at THC we believe an unvarying masthead is a moribund masthead. For the past two and a half years, the png plaque at the very top of this page has been altered on numerous occasions. Readers willing to join the airlift earn the right to commission a bespoke 32×32 pixel tile, and all of those tiles spend at least a month ‘over the door’.
The Frenchman behind Kriegsspiel – 7 Years War, a work-in-progress wargame in which fresh intel is almost as important as feisty infantry, talks formative years and future plans in THC’s latest Q&A.
Due to budget cuts, the 2024 CM Olympiad will consist of just one event – team play-by-comment Combat Mission: Afrika Korps – and involve just two teams – 2020 finalists France and Great Britain. Over the next fourteen weeks, said teams, each orchestrated by a quartet of comment commanders, will fight identical AI-marshalled Axis forces on identical North African maps, the ultimate winner being determined by a points formula detailed below.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
As the sellotape used to attach this demo disc to the THC front cover is specially designed to be impervious to scraping fingernails and to deface the glossy cover art when removed, we recommend you enjoy what you can see of the scantily clad elven archer pincushioning the muscle-bound orc warrior, before attempting separation.
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a whizz at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not lend a hand.
Stretcher Men’s lovely wind-ruffled menu screen has to be worth a 9. Maddening fixed cameras and a bizarre approach to pathfinding mean I’d struggle to award the game itself more than a 2.
If you think yesterday’s most remarkable sporting feat occurred in France and involved Jessica Fox, Léon Marchand, or Adriana Ruano, you clearly haven’t heard about what Froggster achieved in a leafy corner of Wiltshire. Less than twenty four hours ago, with a little help from friends, this gifted, self-taught defoxer found the hiding place of the fabulous Fox d’Or.