Campaigns on the Danube, Radio General, Peter Turcan’s Waterloo… a few of the games that cantered through my mind while I was playing the petite prototype of this hopefully-still-in-production Eighteenth Century wargame.
Assuming I pull my finger out, and don’t encounter any insoluble problems during testing, this year’s play-by-comment CM session will commence next Tuesday. Currently, it’s looking like there will be slots for six players. Chances are, three of those slots…
You have to admire the brutal honesty on show in the 25-minute post-mortem video embedded below the break. According to studio head, Griffin Johnson, Armchair History Interactive embarked on their first wargame without a clear plan and proceeded to make…
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…
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.…
Four things you possibly didn’t know about Hakodate. 1) It’s a port city on the island/prefecture of Hokkaido. 2) In 1934 it was devastated by a fire that killed 2166 people. 3) In 1976 a MiG-25 Foxbat piloted by Soviet…
Seldom mentioned in reviews, main menu screens are, of course, the most important aspect of any game. I’m sure I’m not the only one who instantly uninstalls a new purchase if I don’t like the main menu artwork, then hunts…
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.
Professional history digitizers Wargame Design Studio have donated two copies of their latest pike and shot-era wargame to the Corner. To win one you’ll need to don your lateral thinking cap and study six images with pikey links.
Hmm. Not many of the 87 jpegs in my Old School Rally screenshots folder convey just how much fun I was having with Frozen Lake Games’ Early Accessible memory stirrer yesterday evening. I blame the fact that I was concentrating…
Turn off the metal detectors. Recall the sniffer dogs. Put down the machetes. I think I’ve just stumbled upon Steam’s most entertaining free trial.
Released yesterday, the Ground of Aces demo lasted approximately ten minutes on the THC toe warmer. One viewing of the tutorial video (posted below) was sufficient to convince me that Blindflug Studios’ idea of a WW2 airbase management game and…