Stuart Houghton's posts

Codemasters has revealed details of the first new game in the Colin McRae series to be released since McRae's tragic…

The hardware nerds behind the Acekard flashcart reckon they have made some progress towards getting their card…

All your life you have been told that it is better to give than to receive, but if someone were to put a gun to your…

Although you might expect music based games like Guitar Hero to appeal to visually impaired gamers, they do tend…

Comic book fans! Did you know there was an even more pretentious way to refer to comics than 'graphic novel'? Thanks…

Now hang on a minute. It doesn't seem like five minutes since some gaggle of market pundits were proclaiming that…

Are we done with Tenacious D yet? That one album was quite funny (who doesn't love a Dio joke?) and the videos are…

Llamasoft's Space Giraffe is, shall we say, one of the more critically divisive Xbox LIVE titles. Its brand of…

What is this? 'Try out new portable games via a short Flash demo week'? Actually, that would make quite a good week.…

Zombies are THE pop-cultural touchstones of our times. There is probably a deep-seated psychological reason for this…

For the last 14 years the denizens of the USENET group rec.arts.int-fiction have been keeping the Text Adventure…

It is no secret that Stardock are big fans of Star Control - Galactic Civilizations certainly owes something to Star…

Ahh, Huxley. Were it not for the Korean Open Beta - which apparently exists, and has players and everything - we…

You can tell when expectations of a game are running high when people starting murmuring about DLC expansions before…

Capital Wasteland/A survivalist nightmare/Google Maps can help. This haiku brought to you in honour of the heroic…

It is an advertising truism that Sex Sells, but so does fear. Whether it is fear of human odours fuelling…

If the thought of waiting until next week (or until some as-yet undetermined date, if you are in North America) for L…

A eagle-eyed reader has spotted an ad on Craigslist for a PS3 Engine Programmer. Nothing particularly unusual in…

It's all fun and games using 'Piracy' to describe copyright infringement when you want to reframe the debate and…

This crop of Skate It screens shows some of the character models tricking out in a variety of the game's locations…