{"id":613196,"date":"2026-05-31T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613196\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:30:22","slug":"what-are-we-all-playing-this-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613196\/","title":{"rendered":"What are we all playing this weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, I\u2019m going to a not particularly good football stadium to watch assorted famous people play not particularly good football. No, not the average [team you don\u2019t like] match, but Soccer Aid<\/a>. Why isn\u2019t there a Games Aid, huh? Oh, there is<\/a>. And they do great work, from the looks of it. Maybe one day we\u2019ll use our own games-playing powers for good, but for now, it’s just the following:<\/p>\n

Julian:
I’m going to say it quietly so as not to jinx it entirely, but I am making some progress in Cyberpunk 2077<\/a>. I’m only whispering because I have a horrible habit of bouncing off RPGs after a few hours anyway and I’ve never got past the opening section of CD Projekt’s other games, as good as I hear they are. Something is clicking here, perhaps it’s the Deus Ex<\/a>-ness of it all, but I hope to push on a bit through the weekend.<\/p>\n

Edwin:
I should probably be finishing Zero Parades<\/a>, but I have a sickening desire to play a Penumbra game – this being wot Frictional did before they found Real Fame with the Amnesia series. I’ve played an hour or so of Penumbra: Overture<\/a> and am trying to backtrack through an area that harbours something nasty. What better way to cleanse the palate before KeighleyFest next week.<\/p>\n

Ollie:
Aside from our regular Overwatch<\/a> shenanigans, I’ve been sucked back into Dyson Sphere Program<\/a> for the first time in a while. The opening few hours of this game are just marvellous, and once you rocket off your starting planet (a feat which comes much more easily than in Factorio<\/a>), it only gets better. Please play it if you like factory games. It might be the second-best of them.<\/p>\n

James:
I feel morally obligated to play Mina the Hollower<\/a>, if only so at least one of us can write about this big popular thing, though I\u2019m not quite clicking with the combat and wish I could bury underneath more obstacles than it actually permits me to. That said, I have played a grand total of 39 minutes, which is not enough to render judgement on a game even if it were only 35 minutes long. Further investigation\/burrowing required.<\/p>\n

Mark:
Probably more Forza Horizon 6<\/a> now its festival playlists are in full swing, as a palate cleanser following a rapid inhalation of pure Bondiness<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

Jeremy, Dion, and Callum were all killed in a freak guides accident, from which Ollie emerged miraculously unharmed and somehow the sole beneficiary of all three of their wills.<\/p>\n

And you, reader dear, what are you playing this weekend?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend, I\u2019m going to a not particularly good football stadium to watch assorted famous people play not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}