Author Archive for alistairw



Another week, another column! Why so late this time? Errr…funny story. I’ll get to that later. Let me begin here by saying that we’ve had absolutely no interest in the competition. Admittedly, it’s a bit restrictive saying, ‘Oh, here’s some stuff but you can’t enter if you’re not Australian’, but whatever. I guess the fact […]

Yes, it’s time to win some crap that I don’t want. For this, the first and quite possible last Little Mathletics giveaway, we’re proud to offer you the chance to win some fine Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights gear, sort of courtesy of the nice folks at THQ. I say “sort of” because they didn’t […]

Week four of the Shipping Report, and we’re actually on time for once. Well, more or less: it’s the same weekend as the date indicated up to, and that’s good enough for me. With the short time in between the last post and this one, there’s not a whole lot to talk about this week, […]

Back again! And a day or so late, once again, but hopefully this will all be worth the wait, especially considering my promises of special updates and so forth. It’s been a reasonably busy week in some (life related) regards, but I’m still going to try and get through all this as speedily as I […]

The Shipping Report continues - albeit, a day or so late. There are various reasons for this, but they’re not really worth going into. Anyway, after last week’s mammoth début, I’m probably going to keep it to a more manageable level for future columns, though it really depends on what’s actually been happening. This week? […]

Oh, hello there. It’s been brought to my attention that I am, in fact, a very lousy blogger, and can’t even keep up with blogging about what I’m doing for work. This, I admit, is very true. I am a horrible blogger. So, in order to try and work around that a little, I’m starting […]

Denis Dyack Feature

Hey, so maybe you’ve heard of this Denis Dyack fellow? Aside from his pretty awesome past with Silicon Knights on games like Blood Omen, Eternal Darkness and the upcoming Too Human, he’s received a lot of attention lately for his theories on how the industry should develop - and, most notably, preview - games. He’s […]

That Pesky Red Light Pt. 2

Just a quick little note to let everyone know that I did indeed - after about an hour on the phone at the Target front desk - manage to get a new 360. Actually, that’s worth talking about a bit; the Microsoft employee spoke to the girl at the front desk, the store manager and […]

I’m not a great blogger, really - I’m not totally sure what’s relevant to posting here. For example, today I had to go for a walk for an appointment, and ended up buying the second part of the second series on Twin Peaks on my way home. Then, just as I was leaving the store, […]

Well! Time for the quarterly update, as it seems to happen here. I’m currently slaving away over a gigantic change to the Complete Portfolio, for one. It’s a little weird going through everything I’ve done over the past three or so months. There’s been some pretty interesting stuff in that time, though, so I’ll try […]