If I show you mine…
…will you show me yours? My Steam ‘Year in Review’ for 2024 contained a few surprises. For instance, I was somewhat taken aback to discover that I’d fired up Tabletop Simulator 208 times last year, and, for 49 consecutive days…
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Railway modelling for the cash-strapped and space-poor
Mean old Santa Claus didn’t bring you that longed for train set? Dab away those understandable tears and download the demo of 3D Train Studio V9. Deutschland’s answer to Rolling Line has just pulled into Steam Central, coupled to an…
Dusty But Trusty: Deer Hunter 2005
To qualify for a Dusty But Trusty article, a game must be old enough to vote in Nicaragua, buy tobacco in Djibouti, and make the beast with two backs in Nepal. More importantly, it must be demonstrably super, smashing, great,…
RIP Game-Labs?
Recent forum posts and Steam news items indicate Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts and Ultimate General: American Revolution will get no further updates. As eagle-eyed genre analyst The Historical Gamer noted in a Boxing Day video, the fact that pivotal GL personnel…
Review Reprise: aerofly FS
Of the hundreds of reviews, previews, and retrospectives I wrote during my time as a PC Gamer games inspector, few were punnier than this 2012 double-page spread on aerofly FS.
The Fight for Faire Bissone (A communal Combat Mission experiment)
In the past I’ve asked Cornerites and Flareopaths to choreograph CM scraps set in France, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, North Africa, and the Middle East. Something I’ve never done though, is supervised a game inspired…
Task Force Admiral trial tantalisingly close
That rumble you can hear is the sound of Drydock Dreams Games’ aft elevator lifting a public TFA demo into the sunlight. If all goes according to plan, by this time next month the ascender’s wings will have been unfolded…
“Some of the strangest sorties you’ll ever fly” – Remembering Stunt Island
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…
Wargame Design Studio is heading for the Holy Land
Quite a few articles on this site could legitimately begin with “You’ve probably never heard of this game before” but until today I don’t believe I’ve ever had cause to commence one with “You’ve definitely never heard of this game…
Clustered
Last night one of my Armored Brigade II BMP-2s had a very lucky escape. Cluster-bombed by a marauding Phantom, it would have been dead as a doornail if the bomb in question had been a standard CBU not a training…
Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Creative Europe’s latest ‘call for proposals’ is just as daft and unfair as previous ones. For some reason the EU’s grant granters still feel the only games deserving of funding are ‘narrative’ games. Thinking of making an RTS, TBS, or…
Lizard Express: Slitherine interviewed
Fellow passengers in Train Sim World rarely make eye contact let alone start conversations. Last Wednesday, however, while riding the virtual 15:11 from London Victoria to Epsom, my daydreams were interrupted by a cheery “Hello Tim!”.