Cop games tend to lose interest in criminals the moment they’re in custody. The sort of tense interview suite tussles that loom large in this short but ingenious £2 grill-em-up seldom get ludologised and when they do it’s rarely with…
Luke-warm reviews? An unpersuasive demo? Competition from the likes of FS9, Call of Duty, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles, and Rise of Nations? I can’t recall why I didn’t play this futuristic FPS in its year of release: 2003. As an…
Beat Cop’s setting might be cosy – one short street in a fictional US city – but there’s nothing pipe and slippers about its storyline, dialogue, and choices. How did you start the day? Me, before breakfast I stuffed dope-filled…
Yet to issue an order in this year’s play-by-comment Combat Mission game? Now would be a great time to get your feet wet. In the final moments of this minute-long turn, the Comment Commanders’ force doubles in size. All of…
The preparations for Police Week started yesterday somewhat inauspiciously. Within five minutes of commencing my first shift as a Flashing Lights cop, my over-confident avatar was flat on his back on a warehouse floor leaking invisible blood from multiple invisible…
My first evening with Constracktion, an imminent (Sept 1) railway building curio in which the player must connect industrial plants using a steerable tracklaying train, proved enjoyable and instructive. I learned that…
U is for Ukrainian acquisitions. This Ukrainian games festival still has a couple of days left to run, and is the reason my Steam library now includes Field Hospital (£2.60), Dark Grim Mariupolis (£1), and Titan Chaser (£1).
First blood to the bouncers! Captain Dale’s hurty half-dozen surprise a German sniper team halfway through the turn then find themselves hurling lead and stick grenades up one of Schloss Nottingheim’s ornately carved staircases.
Q is for Quick Topps card. Unlike many of the trade cards that appear in this slot, I’ve probably owned this 1978 Superman card from new. I say ‘probably’ because there’s a chance it was actually pulled from its flimsy…
L is for Liftoff: Micro Drones leaves Early Access. Lugus marked 1.00 by equipping their moreish tiny whoop sim with a track builder, two new maps, and an extra flyable. Just about the only significant things this £16 delight lacks…
G is for Great War game = great wargame? I remember a time when you could count WWI PC wargames on the fingers of one hand and it was rare for a year to pass without a new WWI flight…
A is for Alphabetised game news. There’s nothing especially original about the way I gather game news. Like other reporters, every so often I set cage traps baited with chunks of old telephone directory or stale urinal cake in likely…