This week, I wrote about Battlefield 1943, hosted a Start/Select special with developer DICE, invited the Guinness World Records onto the GameSpot UK Podcast and made a guest appearance on the CNET UK Podcast.

Battlefield 1943 is the next game in the acclaimed multiplayer shooter series, and I travelled to Sweden to be the first person in the world to play it. It will be downloadable-only on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and PC.

Start/Select this week focusses on DICE, the development team behind the incredibly successful Battlefield series and the recent Mirror’s Edge. The offices is one of the most lavishly-designed development centres in the world, and we were given full access.

For the GameSpot UK Podcast, we invited the writers behind The Guinness Book of World Records Gamer’s Edition onto the show They tell us about writing their second annual compendium, while CNET UK’s Nate Lanxon joins us to talk about completing Gears of War 2 on insane.

Returning the favour, I also appeared on the CNET UK Podcast to talk to the team about taxing the internet, Gears of War PC problems, and all the other big news from the tech world. The CNET UK Podcast is well worth listening to anyway, so subscribe in iTunes to get it delivered to you every Friday.

On the preview side, I also attended a Sega event to speak to Sonic creator Yuki Naka and see his new game Let’s Tap, as well as Hearts of Iron 3 from Paradox. This week, I’ll be talking to the composer behind Killzone 2 in central London, and reviewing PlayStation Network title Flower.