I’ve got a relationship with strategy games. It’s not very healthy, and it pretty much always ends in me looking reproachfully at the exe as it leaves me. Infinitely alluring, yet ultimately pointless, I’m really a very bad strategy game player. I can just about get by in the Total War series, when I’m not too rushed, but in something as wonderfully minutely detailed as Men of War, it’s really a lost cause. So any impressions of it will be tainted by the fact that I’m woefully crap at the game. Bear this in mind as I tell you of it’s wonders, for the Men of War Demo is Out.

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I found this over at Indiegames: Walkie Tonky, a cute little flash game where you’re playing the invading alien robot, armed only with a pair of inaccurate arms, extendable legs and a world of stuff to chuck about. It’s very physics-y, and quite a lot of the time you’ll be careening around the screen trying not to get your huge clumsy feet to get caught on some bit of debris or other. It is, despite that, a lot of fun, and the art style is in the currently trendy, and quite fabulous, cartoon silhouette that makes the upcoming Feist look so wonderful.

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