What are you playing this weekend?

The holidays are over. Time to get backmost to the concern of video games.

The holidays are over, and it's clip to get backmost to normal. Whatever mean is, really. What's mean for you whitethorn not beryllium for idiosyncratic else.

For instance: a mean time for maine (of precocious anyway) is getting up early, grabbing a mates of handfuls of unsalted peanuts, and stepping extracurricular to dispersed them onto a shiny plate. Then, I drawback a caller retired of my robe pouch and usage it to hail the section brace of Crows to breakfast.

When we moved backmost to our hometown 2 years ago, 1 happening I noticed astir the vicinity successful which I purchased our location was that it had astatine slightest 3 sets of Crow pairings. I became each giddy astatine the thought of corvids visiting my yard. You see, we lived connected a ample workplace for 12 years earlier we had to determination house, and portion determination was a multitude of birds of each taxon known to our portion (even owls, hawks, and erstwhile a Bald Eagle), for immoderate crushed we ne'er had immoderate crows. Maybe 1 oregon 2 would walk through, but they ne'er stayed agelong oregon came adjacent to the house.

During our stint connected the farm, I made friends with a brace of Blue Jays. Bribing them with feline nutrient worked wonders and eventually, 1 of the jays became comfy capable to instrumentality a portion of kibble close from my hand. Of course, the vertebrate feeder helped bring the jays in, but they perfectly emotion adust feline food. So bash raccoons, but I digress.

Missing my Blue Jays, I decided erstwhile we moved present that I would effort to befriend the Crows. After failing to drawback their attraction aft astir a year, contempt each the peanuts enactment retired (squirrels emotion them excessively apparently), implicit the holidays, I purchased a Crow Caller and a integrative decoy for the birdbath. I person been utilizing it each greeting for the past week, and definite enough, the brace that regularisation my thoroughfare person started to wage much attraction to me.

Tomorrow, I americium going to effort to bribe them with scrambled eggs and feline food, and adjacent clip I chopped the abdominous disconnected our steaks, I volition prevention it for them. Maybe past they volition see maine a friend, commencement hanging astir my yard, and eventually, bash my bidding by spying connected my enemies and robbing my neighbors of their hard-earned coin. Mwahahahaha!

Anyway, that's mean for me. I person nary life. For the remainder of america present astatine VG247, aft gulping down plentifulness of spirits and eating excessively overmuch nutrient during the vacation festivities, it's backmost to playing video games. Not that we didn't play immoderate implicit the holidays, due to the fact that we did, it's conscionable we're backmost to doing it "normally" alternatively of binging oregon playing sporadically.

Here's what we're playing this weekend:

Connor Makar, Staff Writer - Sunless Skies

I'm a small burnt retired connected games astatine the moment, but nevertheless I'll beryllium spending immoderate clip playing immoderate amusive worldly this weekend. Most likely, immoderate Sunless Skies which I've jumped backmost into recently. I'm besides tempted to footwear up League of Legends again, which is an atrocious idea, but hey, what the hell. Maybe I person the intelligence fortitude for it.

I'll besides beryllium speechmaking done a publication I got implicit Christmas, Jon Ronson's "Them". I cognize right, an existent carnal book. Hopefully, I get done this funk soon, earlier immoderate of the large games of this twelvemonth travel out!

Dom Peppiatt, Features Editor – Bloodborne

If you work my diagnostic from earlier this week, it’ll beryllium nary astonishment to you that I cleaving and tearing my mode done Yharnam with a pistol successful 1 manus and immoderate benignant of ludicrous broadsword-cum-epee successful another. I americium tinged with bloodlust, raving with madness, pulling isolated chaotic beasts similar they’re naught much than rotting nutrient and sinew. FromSoft has possessed me, granted maine the cognition of the aged ones, and made maine lethal. There’s nary mode I’m going to measurement backmost from the brink earlier everything and thing that’s been fixed beingness successful this foul onshore has fallen to my greatsword.

And you cognize what I’m going to bash aft that? I’m going to play Dark Souls. I’ve ne'er truly played it – not decently – and the thought of stepping backmost into Lordran to soak up the doomed ambiance decently present that I’ve been afflicted with the FromSoft curse feels maine with a giddy consciousness of masochistic joy. There’s a worldwide event kicking disconnected this week that aims to bring mislaid souls backmost to the archetypal Dark Souls, truthful I consciousness my timing is spot on. If you’re anxious to punctual yourself wherefore this is 1 of the astir influential games ever played, I look guardant to seeing you connected the ramparts, too.

James Billcliff, Guides Editor - Prey

I person played the opening of Prey (which is simply a precise bully acceptable portion and astir worthy playing the crippled for successful and of itself) a expansive full of 4 times. Once successful a pre-release demo connected PS4, again connected PS4 erstwhile it was connected PS Plus, past erstwhile I archetypal bought successful a Steam merchantability a mates of years ago, and present - hopefully for the last clip - connected the Steam Deck.

I emotion Arkane games and Bethesda-published RPGs, but for immoderate crushed I've ne'er managed to instrumentality with Prey past installing the archetypal Neuromod. But present I've loaded it into the eventual backlog-buster, the Steam Deck, possibly this is yet the clip I'll get the astir retired of it.

With orange-jumpsuited Alien vibes retired the wahzoo, and astatine slightest a ocular similarity to the wrench-core combat of Bioshock, I inactive can't judge I've near it this long.

And that's us. What astir you? What are you playing this weekend? Were you talented a ace chill crippled implicit the holidays, oregon did you instrumentality vantage of the myriad sales? Tell america each astir it!