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!”.
While shambling cadavers are by no means the least of your worries in engaging turnbased team tactics title Urban Strife (Picking stylish headgear, or deciding whether to belt a melee opponent with a frying pan, monkey wrench, or rolling pin,…
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…
The title of this Doomy demo-equipped Spanish Civil War FPS is great but not strictly true. Franco’s pixelated minions can also be stopped with bayonet, rifle grenade, flamethrower, and bundled dynamite.
If there’s a more contented species of gamer around at present than the Lesser Spotted Train Simmer, then please point them out to me.
In my part of the world, roe deer are the undisputed contour kings. They know their territories intimately, and when surprised in open country invariably dash for the nearest hollow, or retreat behind the closest LoS-breaking rise or hillock. To…
If a game makes it into the Corner’s end-of-the-pier amusement arcade, you can be sure of four things. The entertainment in question will riff on a classic from the 70s or 80s, require quick reflexes, be cheap or free, and…
Typical. The day after I send Slitherine a slew of questions, I think of another I really should have asked: “Now you own Battlefront, why not put together a small team and start releasing new CMx1 instalments?”. How many nostalgic…
If you’re a regular wearer of cargo pants you’ll know the importance of a thorough pre-laundry garment frisk. This morning while searching the numerous pockets of my battle breeches in preparation for a forty degree Easy Care cycle, I came…
My Black One Blood Brothers screenshots collection now includes more than 300 jpegs. Although the vast majority of the grabs reflect the fun I’m having, and the game’s talent for producing striking special ops tableaux…
Not inappropriately, my first Armored Brigade II casualty was a Fox. One of two scout cars secreted amongst trees on the eastern edge of the Bohemian village of Staré Sedlo, the AFV in question decided to take on a mob…
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…