Gamesradar – Iain Douglas Stewart

David “melatonin” Watson

By Iain January 23, 2025Internet, Reflections, Site RelatedNo Comments

Or lewismistreated, however you knew him. I don't really know how to say this. Well, he took his own life recently. Karl (Lost and Found) broke the news on the 15th of January 2025 in a group chat on Facebook that I originally set up to let everyone know that the Random Fury! forums were closing, back in 2018. I…

Waves is gone

By Iain September 4, 2018Internet, Site RelatedNo Comments

My old blog, Waves, which used to be at the old domain of randomfury.co.uk, is no more. All the posts have been folded into this blog. It was a lovely place, if a bit quiet. I feel like I've written this a lot recently, but it was always more for me to cathartically write than for people to read. I'd…

MGM – Biggest. Letdown. Ever.

By Iain August 29, 2010VideogamesNo Comments

Steel Battalion. You know, the one that came with the huge controller designed specifically for the game. So huge you had to assemble it yourself with an allan key. The huge controller with 40 buttons (all of which lit up as they had LEDs underneath them), two full size sticks, a gear stick with light-up gear indicators, several switches, a…

Goodbye Halo 2

By Iain April 15, 2010Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Last night was the last time Halo 2 will ever be playable over Xbox Live. Personally, I didn't attend (I got rid of Halo 2 ages ago - I never envisioned a time when we'd play it again), but I have spent the time being devoted to Halo 2 in other ways. I've been listening to the soundtrack (thanks again…

Street Fighter Alpha 2

By Iain February 26, 2010Internet, VideogamesNo Comments

I think this was also for some kind of Gamesradar Games Guru competition. "The Street Fighter saga may have gone on and on, but in my mind, Street Fighter Alpha 2 was the zenith, the epitome, the finest one on one versus fighting game in history. Capcom stuck to its "if it ain't broke, don’t fix it" strategy, and merely…

A Review of Versus Fighting Game Evolution ~ Something Different

By Iain February 26, 2010Internet, VideogamesNo Comments

I'm not entirely sure why I wrote this, it was probably for one of DML's bi-weekly Great Gamesradar Games Guru competitions. Still, I found it on my PC and it's from that era, so here it is. "A Review of Versus Fighting Game Evolution ~ Something Different Traditionally at home in the arcades, Beat ‘em Ups have always been a…

Essential Charts Q1/Q2 2005

By Iain February 25, 2010Internet, VideogamesNo Comments

For the first and second quarters of 2005, I quite possibly overstretched myself and made the charts too unwieldy to continue. As well as PS2, Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, PC and Xbox games, I also included several retro consoles such as the Sega Saturn and the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Here are the bloated results.

Essential Charts Q3/Q4 2004

By Iain February 25, 2010Internet, VideogamesNo Comments

For the third and fourth quarters of 2004, the charts were expanded to contain the top 20 “Essential” games for each format. Listening to what the users of Gamesradar wanted, I also covered PC games and the top 10 online console games this time around. Here are the results.

Essential Charts Q1/Q2 2004

By Iain February 25, 2010Internet, VideogamesNo Comments

Back in 2004/5, I ran this thing called The Essential Charts on Gamesradar. The jist is this: Everyone picks their five favourite games and can either rank them from 1 to 5 (the game placed first gets five points, the game placed second gets four points and so on), or just have 5 games in no particular order, each scoring 3 points. I would then compile the scores and we’d have the top 15 “Essential” games for that format.

Poopgang no more

By Iain September 7, 2009InternetNo Comments

Sillysprout has decided to close Poopgang. The exact reasons are complex, but the basic jist is that some members weren't happy at the level of administration being done by the man in green, so Aneurin demanded that Sprout handed control of the forum over to him or he'd take half the community elsewhere. Sprouty declined, citing that they were not…