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Y is for… Yoomurjak’s Ring

My vast Steam library finally includes a game beginning with the letter Y! It was a tough choice, but after pondering your suggestions and perusing the relevant shelves in the world’s largest video game emporium, I eventually managed to turn…

V2Z

V is for Vernal vanguard. For many, the highlight of Steam’s week-long ‘Wargaming Fest’ is sure to be the release of the Strategos demo. Trialists get the chance to road-test three quite different factions – the versatile Late Carthaginians, the…

Q2U

Q is for Quick tea card. For a spell in 1962, boxes of Brooke Bond tea contained colourful portraits of ‘Asian Wildlife’. Illustrated and written by well-known nature artist Charles Tunnicliffe, the 50-card set included this striking image of Pakistan’s…

L2P

L is for “Less of a sphere, more of a potato”. The Tacview sequel currently under development will be able to do a lot of things its predecessor can’t. For example, because it models the Earth as an oblate spheroid…

G2K

G is for Grim great-grandparents game. Sound effects are used to great effect in Onthecht, a short but powerful offering by a Dutch dev whose great-grandparents were among the hundreds of thousands of Jews murdered at Sobibor.

A2F

Tally-Ho Corner HQ is feeling decidedly Spring-like at the moment. The lilacs in the dooryard are in full bloom, there are bouncing bunnies on the lawn, and a moment ago, for the first time in around eight months, a little…