What are we all playing this weekend?

Well? Do tell!

I really thought I'd be done with the decorating this week, but it continues. I have at least got all of the cabinets back on the walls, the larder unit painted and assembled, and regained ready access to the fridge. No more cheese sandwiches for a while, I pray. I'm in the last stretch. I need to touch up all the paintwork where I've left fingerprints and scratches, screw on all the door knobs, and then clean away all the paint stains on the floor and countertops.

I am so close to having a kitchen I can cook in again. I can almost taste it.

But, enough about my slow decorating, let's talk videogames. What are the team playing this weekend?

Ollie
Forget what I said last week about getting better at Overwatch. I think we're getting worse. Without a full team there's a limit to how much we can control the game with counter-picks. But I've got a few games I can retreat to when the frustration gets too much. Mostly strategy games. After my recent dip into Olden Era I've gone back to Songs Of Silence, which (I'm sorry) I vastly prefer.

James
I desperately need to play more EVE Online before I'm shipped off next week to speak to a room of people who professionally play EVE Online. Remember: it's not imposter syndrome if you are, genuinely, an imposter.

Jeremy
Short rant based off of last week's update: I beat Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and man...despite having decent gameplay I ended up absolutely hating the story. Never before have I seen a game that claimed it took care portraying Central/South American cultures fumble the ball so badly. Aside from Lara Croft causing the destruction of multiple villages in the Global South, there's a literal Temple of Doom human sacrifice pit under the "secret civilisation" of natives who have no agency and all speak perfect English because they are secretly being controlled by the bad guy from Trinity. This weekend I will attempt to wash the taste of all of this away by going back to Final Fantasy XII, which at least is only mildly Orientalist in its setting.

Edwin
I'll hopefully be playing Mystery Review Game. Where are you, Mystery Review Game? I'm off to squat in front of my email inbox like an expectant dog.

Mark
(A car pulls up and its window rolls down). Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Secret game. (The window rolls up and it speeds off).

Callum
The last we saw of Callum he said 'I am off in search of a secret of my own'. He is yet to return. Though, he might just have popped down to Tesco.

Julian
I, too, am spending this weekend playing hush hush games. They aren't as big and fancy as the others but I want to join in with the general secrecy. I've put on a fedora and black gloves to blend in. However, besides all that, after hearing about In The Deep, I also really want to play a chunky spacefighter, so I've reinstalled Everspace 2. Let's see if I actually get around to playing any…

And you, reader dear, what are you playing this weekend…?