The week has been an interesting one with RPS linking to my Level Design piece on Sunday which made a complete mess of my my stats graph by putting a big spike in the middle.

However this is a link round-up so here is some reading:

• Soren Johnson posted a piece he wrote for Game Developer Magazine on the challenges faced by Games Designers working on Free-To-Play MMOG’s. It’s an excellent summary of the current state of micro-payments and the various other forms of non-subscription funded Online Games.
• Here is an interesting piece at Cognitive Daily about how your working memory capacity might affect how easily you get distracted.
• I discovered the blog of Wai Yen Tang: Video game research review from a person with a B.A. psychology.
• 1-Up have a video of the latest finalists from Phase 2 of the make Something Unreal Contest. There is a distinct lack of the fun games that made the last MSUC so interesting.  UT2D is probably the most interesting of the bunch.

Oh and of course The Demo of Wheelman is on Xbox Live. Download it and feel free to let me know what you think in the comments.

Have a good weekend!