Monthly Archives: December 2016
IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad – Tante Ju!
With the recent release of the Ju 52/3m g4e for IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad, 1C Game Studios and 777 Studios have given digital pilots the chance to fly an iconic, yet rarely simulated German workhorse from the Second World War. Now, pilots can fly Falschirmjagers over drop zones, carry critical cargo to and from the front lines, and participate in a handful of other mission types that are a pleasant break from the usual intercept, patrol and close air support missions that all of the other aircraft presently in game were designed to tackle. Recently, our beloved forum denizen, Jarhead0331, joined the Luftwaffe and somehow managed to live to tell us about his first flight in a Ju 52 over the Eastern Front.
Take a look at the following series of screenshots and find out if Jarhead was able to keep his plane in one piece.
Craig H. Handler, 30 December 2016
No, Really, The Last Call For Reader’s Choice Award Nominations
GrogHeads Newsdesk, 29 December 2016
Every year we collect your suggestions for the very best in gaming from the year, and after we sift and sort, let you choose the winners.
Every year we get someone complain about “why wasn’t (your favorite game here) on the list?!” And every year, it’s the same answer – none of y’all nominated it! So here’s your chance for a pre-emptive strike against that complaining.
Once we get all your suggestions in, and we actually get to the end of the year, we’ll open the voting for the month of January and see what you pick.
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Merry Christmas, GrogHeads!
image courtesy of Marco Minoli, who stumbled across this place on his honeymoon.
If you need us, we’ll be here, quaffing a pint, for the next few days.
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Wrapping up 2016, GrogHeads Style
We polled some friends in the business for their thoughts on 2016 ~
The GrogFriends, 21 December 2016
So we launched out an email to a whole bunch of friends out in GrogLand, and asked the following:
- What was the biggest ‘story’ in gaming this year?
- What was the most fun you had playing a game this year (even if it wasn’t a new game)?
Here are the responses we got at press time…
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Ken Burnside, Ad Astra Games
- For RPGs, seeing John Wick Presents get the rights back to 7th Sea and run a million dollar plus Kickstarter. For game publishing, seeing FFG “merge” with Asmodee, have their first “failure” in their Star Wars line with Star Wars Armada, and seeing Games Workshop pull the Warhammer RPG and assorted licenses from them.
- I had a lot of fun playing Star Trek: Ascendancy with two people who were even bigger Trek fans than I am.
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Tim van der Moer, CEO, The Lordz Games Studio s.a.r.l.
- The announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2. Mr. Marston will be back, best in game character ever. Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western is an open game world made by Rockstar…very much looking forward to it!
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Civilization VI.
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ed note: 2016 was pretty hard on our sense of mortality across everything, not just gaming. We even added an “RIP” icon for threads in our forums…
Steve Rawlings, LPS Games
Not sure if only upbeat material is welcome, but if you want to mention a “dark side” (or an “In Remembrance” section) that impacted many, it was the casualties among the game company people that really shook me this year. Bill Gibbs at Omega dropped dead, Ed Wimble from COA suffered a minor heart attack while in Tempe at the CSW Expo show this year, and my own right hand man, Lembit Tohver, had a major heart attack last month. I’m sure you can name others. Aging may be taking us down one by one faster than poor game sales.
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Gaming Nostalgia – Judge Dredd 2000AD
#TBT at GrogHeads!
Remember when the year 2000AD was sooooooo far into the future? Judge Dredd does!
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