By Harry Rabinowitz

If you’re like Circle member Stu Horvath, then this is the time of year where you want a quiet place to warm up and read.  What better reading material than this week’s Roundup?

Jason Schreier reports on The Game Awards, a new videogame awards show being produced by Geoff Keighley.

Chris Plante reviews Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and asks the question: “Do we prefer killing virtual people on a world that looks like our own?”

Jason Cipriano reviews the other big shooter of the week, Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

Now that it has been out for a year, Jeff Bakalar re-reviews the Playstation 4 over on CNET.

Forgoing a formal review, Lucas Siegel explores Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis System, and how it could improve existing game franchises.

In another installment of Mashable’s “What to Play”, Chelsea Stark recommends The Long Dark, a single-player survival game in the winter Canadian wilderness.