This week RPS has been racked by staff absences due to illness, family affairs, press trips, and a dire force of negation called “holiday”. For a while, on Friday, I thought I might be the only one left. “Is there anyone alive out there?” I howled, guiding my lifeboat among the frozen gobbets of discount gaming keyboard. “Can anyone hear me?” Then, I heard a few, faint voices on the wind. Good news: RPS still has some writers and what’s more, they have plans for the weekend.
Graham
All being well I’d be starting Split Fiction this weekend, but all is not well and I’ve been laid low by a sore throat for over a week now. Such a pitiful thing to be defeated by, but I’m finding it difficult to concentrate. I will endeavour to find some lonely, brainless distraction to play.
Brendy
Discovered clinging to an inflated samurai cuirass, yelling “tasukete!” Too delirious to detail his weekend activities, so given a hot sake and sent below decks to compose haiku.
Edwin
This weekend I have two embargoed things to play. One involves a lot of door-opening, the other is awash with seasonal change. One is a review, the other is a preview. You will absolutely never guess and I would like to see you try. Also, a PSA for Mungrul: I have tried to do one of Ollie’s smiley faces, but very clumsily.
James
Had built himself a raft out of cut-price Samsung monitors. Refused to be rescued, for ’tis his sworn intent to paddle to Greenland and give J.D. Vance a wedgie.
Jeremy
I am taking a break from Assassin’s Creed Shadows to go back to the true shinobi game that makes my heart flutter – Ninja Gaiden Black 2. Naoe is cool and all, but can she do a 100-hit combo like Ryu Hayabusa? I think not! Anyway, I put Ninja Gaiden 2 away earlier this year as all the big releases came out in February and March, and going back to its straightforward, ‘beat the crap out of demons’ levels after so many ponderous open worlds is very nice.
Ollie
Burst joyfully from the waves singing that the seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake, having gotten confused about which movie we’re referencing here.
Nic
I have never played a videogame in my entire life and I see no reason to start now.
But you, reader dear, what are you playing this weekend?…
