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What are we all playing this weekend?

Well? Do tell!

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Today, for bonus credit, I pose an additional question: is there a space or setting of some sort in games that you keep revisiting in your dreams? For me, it's the first map in The Cycle: Frontier. Something about its bright look and thick alien atmosphere, and the many hours I inhabited it, has left its fingerprints on my mind. Surely you have such a game setting too; I want to hear it!

And while you ponder, here's what we'll be getting up to this weekend.

Brendy
More Skin Deep for me if I get the time. I'm still having fun leaping out airlocks and tossing space pirate heads down the potty.

Edwin
Edwin stared a little too hard at the screen looking for the smiley face, and now where his eyes once were, there are just matterless voids. He keeps clawing at his face and muttering "Feed the Maw". We're not really sure what to do with him.

Graham
I know it. You know it. The only video games I'm going to play this weekend will be Minecraft, Fall Guys and Dune Imperium. This is just who I am now.

James
I'd missed that Haste: Broken Worlds, the very fun, very fast, Sonic-meets-Tribes roguelike I played during Steam Next Fest was released in full last month. It's now in my library where it belongs, and my appreciation for it is only growing - especially the hyperactive, fuzzed-out, almost Neil Cicieregan soundtrack.

Jeremy
I'll probably tinker around with some more Oblivion Remastered this weekend, mostly for the purpose of figuring out how I can break things with console commands and avoid actually advancing the main story. I still think they should remaster (or rather, fully remake) Morrowind and make it look like the spiffy 23rd anniversary art that Bethesda recently put out on social media. Man, the art that Bethesda does for their anniversaries is very nice, in some cases nicer than the game itself. Have you seen this one they made for Arena? Does anyone still actually call Tamriel "The Arena" anymore?

Nic
Nic has wrapped himself in a cocoon of telepathic power, storing energy so that he can unleash it in bursts for the next several Fridays and continue beating everyone to the punch with his WAWAP entries. His secret is revealed.

Ollie
For weeks now I've been neglecting my beloved shooters in favour of factory sims and work, but no more! I've delved into the new tech test for third-person extraction shooter Arc Raiders, and my pals and I are having a brilliant time with it. Gorgeous game, great gunplay, fantastic sound design and atmosphere, and by far the most satisfying and interesting PvE fights I've had in the genre. The non-player enemies are all drones, usually heavily armoured so you need to aim at weak spots. The way they react to being shot in one of their four rotors is just sublime. I've played every tech test so far, it's always been enormous fun, and so I'll be playing nothing else this weekend (except maybe some more Trackmania cups of the day).


But you, reader dear, what are you playing this weekend?...

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Ollie Toms: Ollie is sheriff of Guidestown at RPS, and since joining the team in 2018, he's written over 1,000 guides for the site. He loves playing dangerously competitive games and factory sims, injuring himself playing badminton, and burying his face in the warm fur of his two cats.
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