Crystal X Software If you take a look at page 56, you'll find a storming review of the excellent Stellar Outpost, a game from Angela Swinbourne of Crystal X Software. This is a home brewery that, for the year or so that it's been around, has specialised in strategy games. Anyway, we thought we'd have a flick through Crystal X's catalogue. Cloacker This one is definitely what homebrew software is all about strategy games. It's a bit more chess-like than most, though, involving the movement of a fleet of ships, and the destruction of an opposing set of ships, presumably because they pronounced the word 'scone' differently, or something. As well as being an excellent game to sit and relax with, it's a perfect example of the kind of title that homes will undoubtedly brew (well, I assume that's where the name came from). It requires brainpower, patience, and, above all, a little bit of foresight (concepts which major software houses always seem to shun). Rating : *** 
It's like a cosmic game off chess - how like Ilfs, as pretentious film characters say.
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