A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news.

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. Below is this month’s bag – 25 stories, most of which involve virtual vehicles and surrogate slaughter. 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… (more…)

The best Minecraft mods

, in my opinion, don’t change the game beyond recognition. They keep Minecraft pretty much the way it’s always been, but offer new discoveries or solutions to age-old irritations. Below, you’ll find the very best such mods that we’ve found for Minecraft 1.15.2 – and the best part is that all of these mods can be loaded and played at the same time, while still keeping Minecraft the game you’ve always known and loved.

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Okay, first off let me say that I agree with you: I don’t believe people really are shopping for games hardware for their Dads on Father’s Day, and if anybody is, then I’ve never met them. Still, a discount is a discount, and as you don’t have to show your child/father as a form of ID upon purchase, then you may as well take advantage of the holiday all the same.

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If you want a GeForce RTX card, you have to put down some serious cash, especially with supply chains somewhat challenged by that whole global pandemic thing. Prices start around the £300 for the RTX 2060, so it’s definitely worth highlighting that you don’t have to pay that much more to upgrade to the much improved RTX 2070.

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This week we’re being vaguely topical! Imagine that. Today, because we’ve come through what we might call phase one of the not-E3 livestreams (with phase 2 starting this weekend with the EA stream and the Steam Game Festival) we decided to behave like proper games journalists. We pick out some favourites and standouts from the Guerrilla Collective streams and the PC Gaming show – links to the complete roundups of every trailer and announcement can be found at the bottom of the post.

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Post-apocalyptic videogames, the ultimate escape. How wonderful to venture to a strange land, so different from our own, and see what the world may look like an entire week from now. Well, today the PlayStation clan secluded themselves behind their barricades with The Last Of Us Part 2, leaving the PC tribe to suffer in the harsh elements of reality alone. But never fear, wanderer. Here are some similar games to play if you want to leave your austere existence behind, and indulge in a grim struggle instead. Pull up a plastic bucket, break open a tin of Pedigree Chum, here are the 8 bleakest post-apocalypses in PC gaming. A post-apocalyst.

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The first time I came across a Reaper Leviathan in Subnautica is a moment in my gaming life that I’ll hold onto forever. One moment I was alone amidst endless ocean, a trespassing sack of meat and flippers wondering where the hell I was. Then, a deep, forbidding thrum. I whirl about, checking my surroundings for predators. Nothing in sight. Eventually my gaze settles on a calm patch of dark blue sea – and from the centre of my screen, out of the blackness, a gigantic and horrifyingly silent monstrosity hurtles towards me.

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The studio behind Fe and Flipping Death today announced their next game, Lost In Random. Looking like some sort of action-adventure dealio, it continues their real strong sense of style. We play a girl in a fairytale land ruled by the roll of the dice, and I think now the dice becomes our friend and it’s alive and we use it to beat up baddies? I’m game. Come watch the announcement trailer yourself.

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Electronic Arts have announced a surprise return for Skate, the open-world skateboarding series which has lain fallow since 2010’s Skate 3 (pictured). The game seems more of a dream than anything at this point, not showing even concept art of a sk8r pulling sikk air, but it’s a dream I share. And while the previous Skate games were exclusive to consoles, that was before EA had a change of heart and got well into PC gaming again. I would be quite surprised if Skate 4 did not come to PC too. I want to believe.

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Though the next generation of consoles is coming in a few months, Electronic Arts did not use their ‘EA Play Live’ notE3 pressblast to reveal a slew of shiny new games. No Battlefield 6 (or 0, or -4, or however this works), no Dragon Age 4, no Need For Speed: Pure Gasping For A Bit Of The Ol’ Zoomy Stuff, no nothing. Buuut they did show a tiny hint of Dragon Age 4, some shiny cars, and a tech demo that may become part of the next Battlefield. Bit disappointing.

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