Gaijin Entertainment let fly its new World War II combat flight sim Wings of Prey on Christmas Day, and now there’s a downloadable demo for those of you pondering dusting off the old flight stick.
Square Enix releases their first Western-developed game outside of Japan this month, bringing Wargaming.net’s World War II strategy title Order of War to North American PCs on September 22.
We historians are a little protective of our respective domains — but a constant (and well-deserved) criticism we lob at each other in general is that through various means, we deliberately make ourselves inaccessible to the average, interest layperson. Over at Terra Nova, Nate Combs takes up the question of historical video games, referencing a great 2006 New York article by Niall Ferguson (Harvard professor and historian) on the ‘state of play.’ The answer? Pretty damn bad, at least when looking on from the Ivory Tower:
