"It’s raining my soul, it’s raining, but it’s raining dead eyes."
Most any spectator of the video game market is quick to state that World War II is a setting done to death. Debatable as that may be, as it's still a viable franchising of history, it's true that in contrast - other than futuristic or contemporary games - you don't see much of any other period in time shamelessly exploited to tantalise either our desire to kill or send anonymous individuals to their deaths.
Warfare 1917 is a trench warfare strategy game set during the First World War, produced by the creator of The Last Stand series of zombie survival games.
It comes complete with machinegunners cutting through young men like wet paper, behemoth land-ships, indiscriminate mortar shells and everyone's favourite; gas. It's quite simple enough, as far as strategy games go, as you need do nothing more than ask for reinforcements, order artillery, and send your lads over the top. The trick is in gauging when to perform all of these, especially as certain units take more time to prepare than others. It's nonetheless gruesome tasks with gruesome results.
I'm still going to qualify it as fun, though.
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http://bookkake.com/
How can you not love that title?
This is an initiative I can only approve of: A Print-on-Demand publisher that offers their currently small collection of sensual transgressive classics, complete with their newly commissioned introductions, in a variety of downloadable ebook formats, in their entirety. Good books too: Mirbeau's The Torture Garden - nothing short of a total indictment of the 19th century - is one of my favourites. You'll also find the surrealist Apollinaire's somewhat humorous Memoirs of a Young Rakehell and von Sacher-Masoch's (Yes, the man who is responsible for the term "masochism") Venus in Furs. And while I'm at it, poetic readers may be interest in this Charles Baudelaire resource, which not only contains poems in their native French but multiple translations into English: http://fleursdumal.org/
Also, enjoy Banned Book Week with a copy of Ulysses and an Ambushed Trifle.
Warfare 1917 is a trench warfare strategy game set during the First World War, produced by the creator of The Last Stand series of zombie survival games.
It comes complete with machinegunners cutting through young men like wet paper, behemoth land-ships, indiscriminate mortar shells and everyone's favourite; gas. It's quite simple enough, as far as strategy games go, as you need do nothing more than ask for reinforcements, order artillery, and send your lads over the top. The trick is in gauging when to perform all of these, especially as certain units take more time to prepare than others. It's nonetheless gruesome tasks with gruesome results.
I'm still going to qualify it as fun, though.
---
http://bookkake.com/
How can you not love that title?
This is an initiative I can only approve of: A Print-on-Demand publisher that offers their currently small collection of sensual transgressive classics, complete with their newly commissioned introductions, in a variety of downloadable ebook formats, in their entirety. Good books too: Mirbeau's The Torture Garden - nothing short of a total indictment of the 19th century - is one of my favourites. You'll also find the surrealist Apollinaire's somewhat humorous Memoirs of a Young Rakehell and von Sacher-Masoch's (Yes, the man who is responsible for the term "masochism") Venus in Furs. And while I'm at it, poetic readers may be interest in this Charles Baudelaire resource, which not only contains poems in their native French but multiple translations into English: http://fleursdumal.org/
Also, enjoy Banned Book Week with a copy of Ulysses and an Ambushed Trifle.