As a casual, female, would-rather-be-outdoors gamer, I suppose I represent a portion of the market that games companies really need to get their heads around, if they are going to sell more titles outside of the (admittedly large) pool of “serious” gamers who will buy anything where you either get to use lots of guns, or drive things very very fast. With this in mind, I’m writing a game review – despite not being the best person of the Shitrunstop team to do it – because I’m telling myself that my opinions are important. Also, no other bugger is writing anything for the site, so I’m...

While I'm essentially an unemployed scummer living in the magical land of Oz, Skels made me promise to knock out a review or few to pay the rent, so to speak. I guess it beats hoiking my warez on street corners, especially as the weather has turned into a decidedly British Summer (cold and wet). So let's kick things off with the long awaited Duke Nukem Forever...

I'll start by saying that I'm pleased I made the decision to buy this game for the PC as I hear the console load times are horrendous - even just for a simple reload after death - and it's probably something that would've stopped...

Perhaps it's not that usual to start any sort of article with a comment directly lifted from a gaming forum, but take a look at this if you would:

"The Dan off was great, I particularly liked the Ultra 2 on focus crumple going over you only to see your Ultra 1 fail to catch up with my bouncing away body!"

That, my friends, is Street Fighter language. On gaming forums throughout the interweb, folks regularly pop into Street Fighter threads and converse with each other in this strange, complicated dialect. If I had never played a Street Fighter game before it would completely and utterly...

I was a fairly avid fan of the original Sims game. Between when the game originally came out, and losing my activation code when I moved to Australia, I probably racked up more hours building killer houses and mistreating my Sims than most people would or probably should.

When Sims 2 came out however I was uninterested. In my mind, aside from adding a few more items, which they continuously did through expansions, Sims 1 didn’t need any improvement. The idea of more soap-opera type quests seemed stupid and, quite frankly, I didn’t want to spend any more time than I already did customising...

First things first, there's a demo for Magicka on Steam. If you're at all considering picking up this game, the tiny download and first few levels will do more to convince you than anything in the following paragraphs.

Now, I hadn't intended to buy Magicka myself; a simple $10 Steam indie game wasn't exactly what I had in mind to fill the gap between Battlefield Vietnam and Crysis 2, but after seeing it played for fifteen minutes on one bored weekend, I had to physically restrain my soon-to-be co-op partner from playing any more until my copy was done downloading on Steam.

The campaign...

I often get bored of a work lunchtime, being so far on the edge of Oxford it's hard to actually get out and do something productive, so my attention regularly turns to the brilliant Armor Games website and its large collection of Flash games. Yesterday was just such a day and there, in the new games section, was what turned out to be an absolute gem in the form of Space is Key.

The controls are simple, in fact, it's right there in the title: space. You press space in order to jump a little box over some obstacles in 15 levels of pure punishment. What keeps you coming back is the stylish...