It’s Valentine’s Day weekend; maybe we should be spending a few days trying to woo our significant others back into our good graces. Instead, we’ll be broadening the gap by playing a lot of video games. We’ll buy them a big Christmas gift at the end of the year, so we’re sure everything will even out in the end.
Jeff Marchiafava: The past few weekends I have vowed and failed to beat Saints Row: The Third. This week I picked up Skate 3 as a complete impulse buy, further ensuring I will fail again. When I’m not mutilating my skater in Skate 3’s Hall of Meat challenges (by far the best addition to any skateboarding game), I’ll probably spend some time playing Pinball FX 2 – Jeff Cork sent me a message saying he beat my Thor score, so now it’s on!
Jeff Akervik: Having recently wrapped up Skyward Sword, I finally returned to a game I got derailed from over a year ago thanks to Mass Effect 2…Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. It's my hope to finish Ezio's Roman romp before Mass Effect 3 hits early next month. If not, well, Ezio might be relegated to the sidelines yet again. But, so far so good. Other than that, it's pretty slim as far as gaming goes. My 3DS continues to collect not only dust, but my eternal regret for buying what is undoubtedly a flawed device. Curse you Ocarina of Time 3D. Oh yeah, the Gophers are at Denver for a big series in the WCHA this weekend. You know you care. I sure do.
Ben Hanson: The adventures continue in Pokemon SoulSilver, I wasted several hours catching Lugia, but I am still in love with that game. I recently realized that the release of Mass Effect 3 is quickly approaching and time is running out to play through Mass Effect 2 again since I lost my precious save. I’m looking to follow the same path as before, but this time I will be damn sure that Tali lives to fight another day. I’ve also been considering purchasing Halo Anniversary and the Metal Gear Solid HD collection, we’ll see if it happens this weekend. Oh, and ping pong.
Phil Kollar: I’ll be spending most of my weekend preparing for deadline and (hopefully) finishing up my journey across time in Final Fantasy XIII-2. Assuming both of those go alright, I’m also picking up the Jak Collection and Resident Evil: Revelations, but I may not actually get to those until next week. GAMESGAMESGAMESGAMESGAMES
Tim Turi: My weekend will be consumed with working on another play through of Resident Evil: Revelations, this time with the Circle Pad Pro. I’ll also be cleaning up my first run of Sly Cooper and hopefully be starting the Jak and Daxter HD Collection.
Jeff Cork: I’m going to be exploring the magical land of Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning this weekend. I just started it last night, but I liked what I played so far. And yes, of course, Pinball FX 2. Always Pinball FX 2.
Kyle Hilliard: This weekend, I will be working on a review of a game that I don’t think I can identify. When I am not doing that, I’ll be playing the Jak & Daxter collection. And while that is installing, or the PlayStation 3 is updating, or whatever other time consuming PlayStation 3 activity occurs, I’ll be circle-padding it up with Resident Evil Revelations. It’s also time for the baby to start eating solid foods, so that should be an adventure that requires no clean-up. Babies are very careful, purposeful eaters from what I have heard.
Dan Ryckert: Working on weekend news as well as a couple of review games. Outside of the work hours, I think I’ll be spending plenty of time with Soulcalibur V.