Can't comment on the PC piece, since I don't yet own the game.
But I liked your July piece a lot. Superbly written.
Our gaming generation of 40-60somethings grew up in the shadow of WWII vets (our fathers in many cases) and victims -- most of them, especially the ones with real stories to tell. never told enough about it, so we were left with the first generation of histories (many of them mythologies, really. Thinking of Shirer, Toland, the rehabbed Nazi generals, all those hardcovers with swastikas on the cover -- the Crooked Cross sells).
And then by the mid Sixties, with memories starting to fade and newer wars on the public's mind, we had the nostalgia stuff coming in, aimed both at the guys who "served" but didn't really get shot at much and we, their interested children -- the Time-Life coffee table books, the Ballantine paperbacks, World At War with Olivier's solemn intonations, Tamiya/Airfix/Monogram model kits, comic books and -- wait for it -- the boardgames.
Anyway, rambling a little here. But your piece struck a chord with me.