For the past ten days or so I've been whinging my way through a chest infection. My partner's been sent out for lemsips, tissues, the blood of a vital youth filled with hopes of a bright future, and chicken soup. With the last dregs of the lurgy coming out of me in runs of coughs I'm starting to feel well again, meaning I've a weekend of ignored chores to catch up on. That and attending a one-year-old's birthday party.

Fingers crossed my immune system is now in fighting form because, with Gamescom next week, it would be right annoying to pick up something else.

But enough about me, what's the rest of the team up to this weekend?

Ollie

This weekend it looks like I'll be playing the wonderful game of sitting in bed nursing a pint of hot honey, lemon, and ginger, and hoping that my coughing fits start to calm down long enough for me to sleep. Yep, I'm feeling just dandy at the moment! On the offchance I do get some energy to go downstairs, I'll probably end up playing more Mortal Shell 2 for our walkthrough.

James

I needed a holiday after playing nothing but STALKER 2 for weeks. I'll be back on Monday, refreshed and ready to squeeze in some STALKER 2 before Gamescom.

Mark

(inhales) SECRET GAME, BE VERY QUIET. THIS IS JUST BETWEEN US, YEAH?

Edwin

This weekend I'll be melting mountain ice caps in Sandustry to supply my gold-panning operation with fresh water. I'm also feeling the need to play CleanFall, an equally vertigo-inducing game about a robomaid who cobbles together huge, sloppy airships in order to fly to the bottom of Hell.

Jeremy

More Mortal Shell 2 for me this weekend. You all read my review, didn't you? Despite the occasional bugs and bouts of jank, it's a good game, and I'm glad to see it doing well despite the Soulslike subreddit trying to tell me that actually, the hype is too much and it's mid. Excuse me, I need to go get my Axetana (that's an axe-katana hybrid, a real thing that exists in this game) to go run through some goons.

CallumWhatever Callum is up to it best not be sneaking food to the people in the pit. Callum wouldn't do that, now would he? He has, after all, been warned.

Julian

After hearing Edwin big up the sand game in the morning meeting, I played some over lunch on Friday. Promptly forgot lunch was supposed to end after an hour and kept playing for another hour afterward. So, I will be returning to scratch that itch throughout the weekend. (When not attending a one-year-old's birthday party.)

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

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