Alphabetised game news (Q2U)
Q is for Quick fag card. The 25 cards that make up ‘Victoria Cross Heroes in Action’ are not your typical fag cards. Released in 1970 by Sheffield firm Bassett & Co, they were distributed in packets of candy cigarettes.…
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Alphabetised game news (L2P)
L is for Light at the end of the tunnel at long last? General Staff: Black Powder’s website and Steam page haven’t been updated in a dishearteningly long time, but recent posts on the Kickstarter page give wargame AI aficionados…
Alphabetised game news (F2K)
F is for Fourth time lucky? Originally slated for a Q1 2024 release, then rescheduled for September 2024, and, later, May 2025, the sequel to one of Simulatia’s most realistic motoring sims acquired its fourth ETA earlier this week. The…
Alphabetised game news (A2E)
A is for Adorable Arthurian art attached to abstruse aggro arithmetic. I love Legends of the Round Table’s artwork, animations, and Anna Azéma music and narration, but I’ve not yet warmed to the number-heavy combat maths in the demo for…
Goodbye to Berlin (SubwaySim 2 fails its audition)
You’ve had your chance, SubwaySim 2. Although you come with nicely modelled EMUs, attractive ribbons of Hamburg and Berlin, a replay-friendly timetable mode, imaginative scenarios, and exemplary tutorials, because I can’t seem to get you to run smoothly and look…
Belarusian bream for breakfast
What a lovely way to start the day. I’ve just landed my largest bream yet in agreeably atmospheric angling sim, Fisher Online. Recommended to me by cederic, a Cornerite who’s spent over 190 hours playing it, £12 FO has some…
Tim’s take on Tank Squad
Three of my favourite Tank Squad moments so far. Moment 1. I’m advancing towards a seemingly neutralised Soviet position in a lone Panzer IV. There’s an HE round up the spout in case of unpleasant surprises. A short distance from…
“I’m not driven by a profit motive” – Gregory Adam Scott on money, martial fatigue, and museum visits
Five years ago today, Early Access Armoured Commander 2 hit Steam. Part-time developer, full -time academic, Gregory Adam Scott promised “over a year of planned additions and updates” in his first post-launch communique. What he and his customers didn’t know…
Sling your hook, Ultimate Fishing Simulator 2
Too eager to please and blighted by buggy reflections, so-so scenery, and flawed cameras, Ultimate Fishing Simulator 2’s stay on the THC toe-warmer was mayfly brief. Within ninety minutes of making my first cast, I’d had enough and was reinstalling…
Angling for an armour sim angst alleviator
Tank Squad missions can be pretty intense. When you’re not scanning scenery for dialed-in AT guns, trading AP rounds with T-34s and KV-1s, or attempting to evade mortar barrages, you’re often dealing with aggressive enemy infantry, directing your own dismounts,…
Win action-packed Panzer sim Tank Squad
I spent yesterday evening in the company of Steam’s youngest armour game and during three hours of exciting Eastern Front action managed to engineer the downfall of numerous Tigers and Panzer IVs. If simcade Tank Squad was a T-34 or…
VE Day freebie
To mark the 80th anniversary of VE day, 1CGS is giving away IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad’s first DLC and price slashing (-80%) the numerous add-ons that followed it. Available for nowt for the next 38 hours through il2sturmovik.com, Battle…