The Roundup 26th June
Welcome to the second Roundup here on evo-gamer.com, I hope that people who read this find it useful to keep track of what I am writing and any other interesting bits and pieces I spot along the way.
Hit the jump and see what there is this week.
Firstly I want to share this link (via Richard Cobbett’s twitter) a nice short article examining the stupidity of password masking. I had never thought about this before, but it makes sense, why do we have our passwords masked all the time? Think about it.
The second piece to share is the story of Alice and Kev by chum Roburky. This is a touching story of two homeless characters living in The Sims 3. A very good piece of journalism by Ro.
Resolution boss Lewis Denby has written on Face Off Games about the demise of the solo campaign in modern games. I find the focus on the mutliplayer aspect of games bit tiring nowadays, I look back fondly at the original Half-Life and yearn for another top quality single-player FPS to arrive soon.
I also highly recommend this piece by Lewis on Resolution where he talks about the joys of shorter games, Portal and Gravity Bone are the ones he looks at.
On to my stuff then, that is what this is meant to be about!
My first piece on Gaming Daily went up last week, I explore the role of teamwork in games. Of course Battlefield 2 gets mentioned a fair bit as does Left 4 Dead. (talking about Gaming Daily, Steve has his first piece up there, check that out here.)
Three pieces on The Reticule to share today, the first and my favourite, is this interview with 2D Boy. Ron and Kyle are two very good developers with a lot of great ideas. I am looking forward to what they do next, the Experimental Gameplay Project is going to be good.
I also did some impressions of Hearts of Iron 3 which certainly caused some controversy amongst fans of the series. Hopefully I will write more about the game when it is released, just without so invoking as much anger.
Finally I provided some thoughts on the Cities XL beta. Hope that game is a success when it launches, city builders are a rareity now, but with Cities and the recently released Anno 1404 things may be changing. I hope so, city builders are a great way to spend your time.
That is all for this edition of The Roundup, back again in a fortnight!
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