Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 14
In the final turn of the 2024 CM Olympiad neither team lose AFVs to FPV drones, do battle with undead Berber warriors, or unearth, with mortar bombs, the northern entrance to a fabled trans-Saharan tunnel.
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Meet Ghost Recon’s grandson, Black One Blood Brothers
Last night, Uncle Steam, noticing I was at a loose end, whispered in my shell-like: “Players like you love Black One Blood Brothers”. After I responded with a sceptical “Is that so?”, he realised he still had work to do.…
Dislodge Japs and graffiti maps in the Radio Commander: Pacific Campaign demo
If you played the original Radio Commander, the Radio Commander: Pacific Campaign demo is sure to stir memories. Unfortunately, not all of those memories are likely to be happy ones.
The First of the Forsaken
The older I get, the more abandoned game projects I leave in my wake. During the past fifteen years I’ve started work on dozens of video games and – if you ignore this trifle – failed to finish every single…
Trapped news
Looking like a cross between an old-fashioned gramophone player and a glass harmonica, the trusty THC news trap generally catches at least a couple of stories overnight. When I opened it up this morning I found the following five paragraphs…
Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 13
Both teams have managed to reach the penultimate turn without losing their tank. Does the above screenshot mean one of the Crusaders won’t be participating in the final minute of action, or is it simply evidence that your GM is…
Febrile Forums: Farming Sim 25 and Sea Power hit Steam
The Steam forums of Sea Power and Farming Simulator 2025 are as busy as midsummer beehives at the moment. Given that both titles launched yesterday, abuzz messageboards are probably a good sign even if, currently, a fair portion of the…
Drone Perspective’s demo reveals strengths and failings
Imagine if the next Brothers in Arms game was set in contemporary Ukraine and forbade the use of first- and third-person views. You’ve just pictured Drone Perspective, a low-headcount military RTT with a demo, a ‘coming soon’ ETA, and a…
Combat Mission Olympiad: Turn 12
You can split logs and de-husk coconuts with CMx1’s low-poly AP shells. As Team France proves in the twelfth turn of the fourteen-turn CM Olympics, they are also pretty useful for killing Panzers.
Bargain-basement Balkan bloodshed
I breakfasted in the Balkans this morning courtesy of Wars Across The World’s latest DLC. Bulgaria 1913 translates the brief and complicated Second Balkan War into a dirt-cheap seventeen-turn digital board game. Halfway through my first playthrough, I’m simultaneously battling the…
Sea Power’s Early Access roadmap is troubling
Page Up, the key I crash-dive when I want to screengrab a Steam game, has seen an awful lot of action this week. Sea Power, an almost-upon-us naval wargame with brooding good looks, deep realism, but a disappointing attitude to…
Glorious Clutter: ISS Simulator needs a ‘hunt the thimble’ mode
ISS Simulator, a fetching freebie made by a Japanese outfit called SpaceData, is one brainstorming session and a few weeks of coding away from being one of Steam’s most unusual hidden object games.