![]() ![]() Thin-skinned Roskomnadzor regulators took offence and have banned the hexy Eastern Front TBS from sale in Russia. The above cutscene has cost the Ukrainian developer of 3D Panzer General-like Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg dear. Magna Generalis titles devoted to The Trojan War, the Crusades, and the Ottoman-Venetian Wars have already crossed Maxim Ferapontov's mind. If the new approach proves popular then treatments of other conflicts are inevitable. All battles whether on sea or land will be chess-like affairs conducted on dinky gridded battlefields. Magna Generalis: The First Punic War will dispense with the 3D battle layer that has, up until now, been the studio's hallmark. I wonder what fans of Totem Games' briny battle games will make of their next effort. …the weekly co-op brainteasers proven to retard male-pattern hair loss, confuse cookies, and shorten Fridays. The replacement, TSW2, will be compatible with its predecessor's add-ons, and offer improvements like plausible adhesion physics and an in-game livery designer, but many simmers are far from happy that they'll now have to buy another title in order to obtain planned TSW features like multiplayer and steam engines. A mere two years after gleaming hope-laden TSW took to the rails for the first time, it's set for retirement. E is for End of the lineĭovetail Games has decided to treat Train Sim World the way British Railways treated the poor old young Class 14s. Its stablemate, the Red Orchestra-inspired Warfare 1944, will sport a price-tag, albeit a modest one ($10). Set in Afghanistan, totally free, and blessed with a moniker Alan Partridge would definitely approve of, Operation: Harsh Doorstep is, amongst other things, one optimistic chap's bid to transform a monetization-obsessed game industry. MicroProse's latest signings are two unusual military shooters presently underway at a studio called Drakeling Labs. ![]() When it comes to weather modelling, the team behind Microsoft Flight Simulator aren't just pulling out all the stops, they are decorating the organ pipes with live cherubim, and hiring Rachmaninoff and Little Richard to duet. The 32 modelled aerodromes include the international airports of Damascus, Beirut, Adana and Haifa. The work of third-party dev Ugra Media, the map will actually cover much of the Med's eastern end. When I heard that DCS' Syria map was approaching completion, the first thing that popped into my head was a mental picture of a simulated Mi-8 dropping chlorine gas cylinders on a ravaged city. I think I've been spending too much time following the ongoing “debate” between Syrian war crime investigators and Syrian war crime deniers. ![]() If you’ve visited a transport museum or heritage railway in the past twelve months, or can put these battles – Tsushima, Thermopylae, Trenton – in chronological order, you probably won’t regret clicking where it says… Below is this month’s bag – 25 stories, most of which involve virtual vehicles and surrogate slaughter. Every four weeks or so I hang up a streamer of industrial strength fly paper in The Flare Path water closet and see what wargame and simulation news items stick to it. A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news.
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