Gosh, where did that hour go? Tearing about in a polygonal Laser dinghy courtesy of the free Storm Sailor prototype is a blast, and you don’t need to look much further than the sim’s strong hydrodynamics, helpful AI, and friendly…
Foolish Mortals, the Saskatoon studio that gave us the splendidly foggy Radio General, is presently beta-testing a WW2 operational wargame that looks every bit as revolutionary as RG. If you’re a fan of Panther Games’ output, or frequently find high-level…
Reykjavíkian dev Baldvin Albertsson doesn’t simply want to make an entertaining WWI game, he wants to make a thought-provoking and insightful one. In the following Q&A the ex-actor and theatre director describes some of the ways in which upcoming management game…
Hanging up my axe, hose, and hydrant spanner at the end of Firefighting Week proved harder than I’d anticipated. Not only am I still exploring new (to me) extinguish-em-ups, battling all those virtual conflagrations seems to have altered my attitude…
I’ve just driven my first route in Croydon: London Bus Simulator, and the twenty minute ride has transformed the way I think about Roblox. Although the complete absence of AI traffic is a big pill to swallow if your usual…
An hour after firing up RotorSim, Immaculate Lift’s SimCopter-reminiscent chopper game, for the first time, the campaign progress bar is a third full, and I’m wondering whether I’ll have seen all there is to see by lunchtime. While I don’t…
Allen Gies, the writer behind much of Burden of Command’s vivid prose, has penned a 900,000 word interactive novel about tank warfare in North Africa. Hopefully, the excruciatingly daft moment early in World War II Armored Recon where you get…
A combat flight sim that forewent flak or a sub sim that didn’t include death-by-depth-charge would get ripped to shreds by reviewers, so why aren’t firefighting sims taken to task for leaving out two of the most dangerous aspects of…
Deep down I doubt any armchair hose jockey wants a totally realistic fire brigade sim. If forty percent of in-game call-outs were false alarms caused by confused or malfunctioning fire alarms, extinguish-em-ups would alienate all but the most patient and…
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this title turned out to be the simmiest firefighting diversion I play this week. Not only has Bochum-based developer Crenetic faithfully reproduced German firefighting techniques, it has created remarkably detailed facsimiles of the…
Artur Tabiszewski, what, in the name of all that is combustible, were you thinking? As you are listed in the credits as Fire Commander’s designer, producer, and lead programmer, I’m guessing you are the person who made the bewildering decision…
Beware! The air quality on Tally-Ho Corner is going to be abysmal this week, and thanks to the tangle of quivering hoses on our puddle-strewn drive, there will be trip hazards galore. Keen to address one of my stranger blindspots…