This page offers links to computer and video game reviews, previews and articles that I've written for online publications such as GameSpy, CNET Gamecenter, Gamesmania, Gamepower, GameProWorld (formerly PC Games magazine) as well as print magazines Wired, PC Accelerator, Maximum PC, Official Xbox Magazine and PC Gamer. You'll note that many of these reviews relate to racing simulations and racing arcade games. This is a genre I know intimately (both in real life and digitally) and can write about with confidence and flair. (Stand back! His helmet is starting to swell!).

I also pen the "Sim Column" for PC Gamer magazine (the world's best-selling PC gaming consumer glossy). This monthly column deals primarily with news and developments in the racing and flight sim genres (my other passion). As well, I co-wrote Sybex's Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight--Strategies & Secrets with Doug Radcliffe in 2003 (my first published book credit).

As a full time freelance writer I can offer prospective editors fast and efficient turnaround on assignments with style and substance (that helmet's never gonna come off now).

Ego Alert! I've recently been on the receiving end of some nice plaudits and awards. Follow these links to read about:

The Honourable Mention Award I won for my non-fiction short story The Man With The Flying Notebook in the SiWC (Surrey International Writer's Conference) Writing Contest on October 21, 2005.

An article on GameDaily Biz entitled The Best Writers in the Business 2005.   

Bio time. My name is Andy Mahood and I'm a former semi-professional race car driver (I say "semi-pro" because, even though I competed in a number of professional racing series, I still needed to hold down a regular job in order to subsidize whatever the sponsorship and prize money didn't cover). I raced in Formula Vee, Formula Ford, Formula Atlantic and Player's/GM Motorsport Series events throughout the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s before ultimately retiring from the sport in 1993. I won three Formula Ford Championships (in 1980, 1981 & 1984) and was twice nominated by Autosport Canada (the country's leading motorsports periodical of the time ) as one of Canada's top ten F1/IndyCar prospects.

I'm now a full-time writer and I've been contributing reviews, previews, articles and columns to the publications listed above since 1996. I live in New Westminster B.C. (just outside of Vancouver) with my lovely wife Debbie, our (female) Keeshond Jack and evil, demented cat Lola.

I also completed my first novel a couple of years ago. Entitled The Uno Affair, it's an espionage thriller set in Paris, San Francisco and Vancouver. My former literary agent wasn't able to find a home for the manuscript with any North American publishers but keep your eyes open for it nevertheless… I'm confident it will sell within the next few years (For a synopsis click here and for a sample passage click here).