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Cut Off: Road to Dunkirk

What a pity there wasn’t a Battle Academy fan amongst the sixteen Bellecour École students who made Cut Off: Road to Dunkirk. The free two-level vertical slice is handsome, très friendly, and refreshingly Gallic, but absent morale and fairly insignificant…

The Iwo Jima Paradox (Part 1)

Three things you probably already know about Iwo Jima. 1) It’s a small volcanic island 750 miles south of Tokyo. 2) In early 1945 it was the scene of a fierce and costly five-week battle between US and Japanese forces.…

Train and tram sim tidbits

Thanks to a gifted layout artisan called Rinston, owners of railway modelling sim Rolling Line can now drive Lilliputian locos around a stylised recreation of Half-Life 2’s City 17.

Guided tours of Burden of Command

If the years of waiting have taken the edge off your Burden of Command enthusiasm, I strongly recommend you spend twenty five minutes with the two video whetstones embedded below. In readiness for a release date announcement later this month,…

Shallow as a teaspoon

I spent yesterday evening contentedly mauling marus, raking Rufes, and dodging depth charges. The fact that I opted to patrol the Pacific in a familiar Crash Dive 2 Gato, rather than a brand new Silent Depth 2 one, speaks volumes…