Sopwith Camel Light: Rise Of Flight Trial
RPS’ master of the skies Flight-Commander Stone wrote about the Rise of Flight Beta last year. Once you register on the site it gives you 72 hours with it. The full download’s a hefty 3 gig or so, but...
View ArticleThe Flare Path: Severely Overloaded
There’s a lot of news to pack into this week’s Flare Path and 80% of it has wings. If you want to make yourself useful, start loading those crates marked FlightGear. Stack them neatly and there...
View ArticleThe Flare Path: Iron Cross Edition
Usually a radio-controlled Zeppelin or the promise of a footplate ride on an elderly diesel loco, is enough to get a dev or publisher game coverage in the The Flare Path. This week however, bungs...
View ArticleThe Flare Path: A Plague Of Caterpillars
There are many different ways of gathering sim and wargame news. Me, I like to get up at the crack of dawn, grab my metal detector, and head into the forests that surround my hometown. It’s amazing...
View ArticleThe Flare Path: Simkhana 2012
It’s that time of the week again, that time when Shermans and StuGs stop squabbling, Albatrosses and Camels play football together in no-man’s-land, and rust-streaked U-boats sidle up to exhausted...
View ArticleThe Flare Path: Sea Of Sand
“They’ve found her!”. 5 seconds ago I was fast asleep. “Ekrem, is that you? Do you know what time it is here?”. “Listen. HMS Clytemnestra has been found.”. The words are ice-water hurled into my...
View ArticleThe Flare Path: Wrecks And Rectification
13.55. Spot a ‘there’ where there should be a ‘their’. Hurriedly rectify. 13.56. Discover a ‘their’ where there should be a ‘there’. Hurriedly rectify. 13.57. Notice a ‘there’ where there should be a...
View ArticleTrouble And Strafe: IL-2 Sturmovik Sequel Announced
I would have written this post a great deal more quickly but I accidentally got Stoned while doing a quick spot of research. Fear not – nobody’s been pelting me with rocks and I haven’t decided that...
View ArticleThe Flare Path: Stalinglad Tidings
We spent the morning prodding it with anti-tank rifle rounds and DP bursts, and the afternoon nudging it with mortar bombs and rifle grenades. Nothing worked. The sun was disappearing into a hole in...
View ArticleThe Flare Path: Secretes Secret History
Manfred von Richthofen’s final flight – the facts you won’t find in any book or documentary: Fact 1. If letters written by his batman, Andreas Krantz, circa 1929 are to be believed, in the weeks...
View ArticleThe Flare Path: Continuum
What a con! So far ‘2015’ feels a lot like a re-badged ‘2014’. I know you shouldn’t look a free update in the mouth, but gosh, a few improvements would have been nice. How much longer must we wait for...
View ArticleThe 25 Best Simulation Games Ever Made
Ready to discover once-and-for-all whether X-Plane is better than FSX? Whether Falcon 4.0 is better than Milk Float Simulator 2012? Ready to read the word ‘realism’ 46 times in a single hour, and spit...
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