Three of my favourite Tank Squad moments so far. Moment 1. I’m advancing towards a seemingly neutralised Soviet position in a lone Panzer IV. There’s an HE round up the spout in case of unpleasant surprises. A short distance from…
Five years ago today, Early Access Armoured Commander 2 hit Steam. Part-time developer, full -time academic, Gregory Adam Scott promised “over a year of planned additions and updates” in his first post-launch communique. What he and his customers didn’t know…
Too eager to please and blighted by buggy reflections, so-so scenery, and flawed cameras, Ultimate Fishing Simulator 2’s stay on the THC toe-warmer was mayfly brief. Within ninety minutes of making my first cast, I’d had enough and was reinstalling…
Tank Squad missions can be pretty intense. When you’re not scanning scenery for dialed-in AT guns, trading AP rounds with T-34s and KV-1s, or attempting to evade mortar barrages, you’re often dealing with aggressive enemy infantry, directing your own dismounts,…
I spent yesterday evening in the company of Steam’s youngest armour game and during three hours of exciting Eastern Front action managed to engineer the downfall of numerous Tigers and Panzer IVs. If simcade Tank Squad was a T-34 or…
To mark the 80th anniversary of VE day, 1CGS is giving away IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad’s first DLC and price slashing (-80%) the numerous add-ons that followed it. Available for nowt for the next 38 hours through il2sturmovik.com, Battle…
I’ve written hundreds of reviews, previews, and retrospectives during my twenty-odd years as a games inspector. As many of these appeared in the British version of PC Gamer magazine and nowhere else, now and again something from my archive may…
If anything is guaranteed to make a patriotic English wargamer’s blood boil, it’s the sight of a Nazi flag flying over Buck House. Yesterday, a few hours after watching the Red Arrows stripe the sky over the King’s unpretentious London…
A thoughtful Cornerite drew my attention to this extraordinary Early Access FPS. The email Bekay sent was so arresting and informative, it deserves to be reproduced in full.
Mildly troubled by the fact that your Steam library doesn’t contain games beginning with all 26 letters of the alphabet? The following list of top-notch time-killers is designed to help completists fill gaps wisely. In its original form THC’s Steam…
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…
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…