V2Z
V is for Vintage vroom. If anything is likely to lure me back to open wheel sim racing, it’s the work of Assetto Corsa enrichers, Historic Sim Studios. Using their payware and gratis race cars and circuits, it’s possible to…
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Partisan gets a firm ‘nyet’ from me
Some forgotten PC games deserve eternal obscurity. Recently winched from the Russian bog where it’s sat for the past sixteen years, WW2 RPG Partisan is just such a game.
Crack kraks in Crusades: Book I
Meteorologically speaking, Wargame Design Studio’s latest release is as dry as the Negev Desert. In tactical terms, however, it’s anything but desiccated.
Q2U
Q is for Quick tea card. Card no. 17 in ‘Locomotives’, a 25-card set issued by Barbers Teas of Birmingham in 1956, features Cock o’ the North, the first of Nigel Gresley’s striking but flawed P2s. Like the other five…
L2P
L is for Lamentable landscapes. Clumsily created and employed, AI art can ruin otherwise sound computer games. For proof of this, look no further than Frontline: Assault Corps, a £12 hex wargame in which southern Italy looks awfully like the…
Submit sublime screenshots to win Task Force Admiral
Drydock Dreams Games has decided to give away four digital copies of uncommonly photogenic Task Force Admiral to four talented screengrabbers, and, as it was an email from Yours truly that prompted this act of beneficence, I’ve been invited to…
G2K
G is for Green Tree Games gird their loins. Announced in the year the RAF retired its last Hawker Herbert, and the Pope described hula hoops as “Satan’s bangles” in his Easter address, Burden of Command has a precise release…
Inspired by Indiana Jones, Venturous is everything a retro shooter should be
Move over DUSK, Strafe, and HROT; I think Venturous qualifies as my favourite fuddy-duddy FPS now. I was planning to mention this free, standalone Doom 2 total conversion in the current A2Z, but recent experiences in Egyptian tombs and Tibetan…
A2F
If you want the second part of March’s alphabetised news round-up, you’re going to have to thank me profusely for this part, and give me preferential extraction rights for all your titanium, zirconium, lithium, and graphite.
I was robbed near Rabaul in Task Force Admiral
I felt my last Task Force Admiral demo clash went rather well. No US vessels ended up at the bottom of the Coral Sea. The Yorktown’s winged minions well and truly clobbered the Shōkaku, losing just one Dauntless in the…
Lose tails, hub caps, and lunch hours in The Driver Syndicate
If you’ve managed to reach the ripe old age of [insert impressively large number here] without losing touch with your inner seven-year-old, congratulations. You’re probably going to enjoy jumping lights, evading cops, and trashing fireplugs in this free, Driver-inspired chase-em-up.
The Velicogna Verdict: Bastogne
THC is lucky enough to have an ex-KCL Wargame Studies lecturer amongst its guest contributors. Today, Arrigo Velicogna assesses Bastogne, a snow-mantled solitaire board wargame that shuns hexagons and deifies dice.