A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news.

Welcome to the cosy corner of RPS where the vehicular is valued, the historical is hallowed, and the paragraphs are shorter than 7.5 cm Kampfwagenkanone 37 L/24 barrels. While this flavour of Flare Path usually relies on the English alphabet for structure, in emergencies – in weeks when Life does its best to unscrew my monocle and turn my upper lip to jelly – I’m perfectly willing to use the dinky letter palette of the Rotokas people of Bougainville. (more…)

Can I lodge a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority about how the PS4 version of Fishing Planet [official site] got a trailer that was approx one billion times better than the PC trailer? I am FURIOUS right now. We get moody water shots and easy listening and theirs is all TENSION AND FISH AND HYPE AND EXCITING RIFFS AND YES YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE THERE ARE MORE THAN 70 SPECIES OF FISH AND OBVIOUSLY COMPLEX FISH AI IS HAPPENING AND ARE YOU READY FOR THIS BECAUSE I DO NOT THINK YOU ARE READY FOR THIS. (more…)

Traditionally, autumn is the time for virtual hunting in the Stone household. This year, for a change, I’ve decided to leave my high-velocity deer dispatcher in the gun cabinet and rely on eight feet of simulated carbon fibre for my indoors outdoors fun. Fishing Planet and Euro Fishing have six hours each in which to (A) hook me, (B) reel me in, and (C) exhaust my meagre supply of hackneyed angling metaphors. At the end of these brief but intense auditions one of the games will be granted indefinite leave to remain, the other will be tossed back into the seething Steam stew pond. … [visit site to read more]