Game-Labs, the developer behind Naval Action, have recently released patch 10.00, providing new content and features for their popular naval combat sandbox. Notable among the new features are the “Forged Papers,” which allow captains the ability to swap nations should they regret their decision. Another change, which you’ll notice right off the bat, is that […]
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Naval Action – Alliances
Game-Labs’ expansive naval combat sim, Naval Action, continues to navigate its way through Early Access with a fair amount of success. Just visiting the Steam page shows, as of this writing, reviews firmly in the “Very Positive” and “Mostly Positive” categories. In fact, it’s because of these ratings that Game-Labs recently introduced four new ships […]
Naval Action – Final Voting Week For Player Ships
This week, April 11th, 2016, marks the final week for players to vote on the Player Ship Select 2016 poll for Naval Action. Those of you familiar with the previous poll winners, such as the Ingermanland and Santisima, will want to make sure and cast your vote this week. Out of the 15 ships available […]
World of Warships – Russian Cruisers Announced
Wargaming and Lesta Studio have continued churning out new updates and content for their popular World of Warships title since its release last September. Today, mini update 0.5.3.2 was released and brought with it a couple new camouflages, some visual updates, and, most importantly, a look at the new Russian cruisers. The type five and […]
Naval Action Enters Steam’s Early Access
Developer Game-Labs has pushed their highly anticipated naval combat sim, Naval Action, over to Steam’s Early Access Program. Early last year, SimHQ took a couple looks at Naval Action in its premature stages, but now, it seems, Game-Labs is getting ready for prime time. In brief, Naval Action is a very detailed naval combat sim […]
Weekend Roundup – BF4, DayZ, and More
Order of Battle Morning Sun Needs Beta Testers After the successful release of their Battle of Britain update, The Aristocrats, makers of Order of Battle: Pacific, are once again returning to the pacific theatre in their next expansion. This time they’ll be taking on the Second Sino-Japanese War: “Players take control over the Japanese forces […]
World of Warships – Soviet Destroyers & German Cruisers
Wargaming and Lesta Studio, the developers behind the recently released World of Warships, have announced that the Russian destroyer branch (Soviet Tech Tree) will be joining the fray on October 19th. The line of destroyers will include: the famous Izyaslav, Gnevny, and Tashkent (The Blue Cruiser). The Soviet era destroyers bring powerful and very accurate […]
World of Warships – Double XP Weekend and Update 0.4.1
Ever since Wargaming announced World of Battleships Warships way, way back in the before time (2011), fans of the World of (Tanks – Warplanes) series have been eagerly awaiting this next installment in the franchise to drop. Luckily, back in March, World of Warships entered closed beta which then turned into an open beta this […]
Naval Action: Guides To Get You Started
If you’ve visited the SimHQ forums in the past few months, particularly the Naval Simulations board, you’ll probably have noticed a lengthy discussion about Naval Action, an Age of Sail game in development by Game Labs. The game is still in its Alpha/Early Beta phase but has been very steadily garnering a dedicated following. Given […]
IL-2 Sturmovik Retrospective: Pacific Fighters
So far we have looked at the first chapters of the IL-2 legend, IL-2 Sturmovik and Forgotten Battles. Now we move from Europe to the Pacific. Fighting the Publisher: IL-2 Pacific Fighters (2004) “…in what has to be the final utilization for the IL-2 engine, Oleg Maddox, Ilya Shevchenko and company have released Pacific Fighters, […]
Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations Preview
Introduction This preview article is based on a beta that is believed to be a fair representative of what may eventually become the retail product. With the understanding that some features may be added, removed, or modified prior to the release, we give you this preview article which is simply a non-critical look at the […]