The Roundup is back for another hit of my writings from the past two weeks, and making a welcome return some links to interesting pieces written by other people.

Hit the jump to see what I have in store this week.

First off some piece from other people. I have to mention Phill’s piece on Resolution about the Third Person Disconnect which is a very interesting analysis of how the third person perspective in games. On Gaming Daily Steve has talked about the aggrevation poor console to PC control porting causes. Fortunately this was something Overlord did very well, check out a review from Mark on that here.

Looking a bit closer to home with The Reticule we have some fine pieces of work, the best I think is this piece by Greg which looks at game pricing. He has also started a Hearts of Iron 3 game diary which is looking very good. Meanwhile Ben has interviewed Mark Darin of TellTale Games.

Now don’t go thinking I haven’t been doing anything! First up is my Gaming Daily piece where I looked at the importance of bots in games. On Resolution I contributed (along with Phill and Tom Bramwell from Eurogamer) to a discussion about why we play games. Some very interesting comments all round there.

Over on The Reticule I have given Anno 1404 a Verdict along with judging Bookworm Adventures 2. Both are very good games, especially Anno which I really hope more people look at and try out. Finally I also looked at the open world scenarios of Fuel and Burnout Paradise, you can read that here.

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