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Review Reprise: Apache Air Assault

I’ve written hundreds of reviews and previews 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, and involve titles largely forgotten today, now and again…

Alex Williamson is a one man wargame factory

Over the past decade the proprietor of Asymgames.com has crafted around seventy computer wargames. All are free, equipped with competent AIs, and playable online, and many explore the kind of relatively obscure conflicts, ops, battles, and historical events that bigger…

Nuclear Option has a NovaLogic feel

As Prigozhin seems to have cancelled his insurrection, I think I can drag myself away from Twitter and the TV for long enough to type a few lines on Nuclear Option, a ‘coming soon’ combat flight sim with some seriously…

Combat Pilot – a promising speck on the horizon

I’d argue the natural skull slot for ‘Combat Pilot excitement’ is one adjacent to ‘Task Force Admiral excitement’. Whereas Drydock Dreams are intent on creating the most realistic/ravishing WW2 Pacific carrier ops wargame ever made, Entropy.Aero, a subsidiary of Barbedwire…

Dusty But Trusty: Panzer Elite Special Edition

Grappling with unanticipated pathfinding and optimisation challenges, the makers of Tank Squad have decided to delay a demo originally intended for release this week. One possible way to assuage disappointment is to fire up Panzer Elite Special Edition, an aged…

Deft Dane sweeps the board in IL-2 air races

On Saturday accomplished Danish aerobat CSW_Tommy544 snatched victory in both finals of the demanding Virpil WarBRD Race Tournament. The standard of airmanship in the competition was staggeringly high and the racing nailbitingly close as the video embedded below the jump…

Just Xiangqi (chess for wargamers)

Xiangqi, the Chinese form of chess, has more WA (wargamer appeal) than the western variety. Its combat might be just as deterministic, but a board that boasts actual topography, and armies that include artillery units capable of stylised indirect fire,…