{"id":724019,"date":"2026-08-02T07:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:06:24","slug":"what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-644","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724019\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Playing This Weekend? &#8211; Issue 644"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 644 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/e9472daeed926\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-644-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-644-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 644 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another week has come to a concludion, which means it&#8217;s time to kick back and unwind with some good ol&#8217; video games.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Bayne<\/p>\n<p>Another week of rootin&#8217; n&#8217; tootin&#8217; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/red_dead_redemption_2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Dead Redemption 2<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Jamie O&#8217;Neill<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s part of July 2026&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/guides\/all-ps-plus-games-available-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PS Plus Essential<\/a> games, I want to download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/call_of_duty_modern_warfare_3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3<\/a> before the next Essential crop arrives on Tuesday 4th August. I&#8217;ve read that Sledgehammer Games&#8217; 2023 campaign and its Open Combat Missions are substandard, but I&#8217;m intrigued to see firsthand what happens to Captain Price, Ghost, and Soap, plus the infamous Vladimir Makarov.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Tailby<\/p>\n<p>This weekend will be spent mostly with a game I&#8217;m reviewing right now. I&#8217;ll be able to share more soon!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re playing this weekend, then, but what about you? As always, let us know in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another week has come to a concludion, which means it&#8217;s time to kick back and unwind with some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[242,59,197,112,3116,86,56,54,55,16319],"class_list":["post-724019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-features","tag-gb","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-talking-point","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-what-are-you-playing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724019","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=724019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}