{"id":13460,"date":"2011-08-12T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"what-we-re-playing-this-weekend-13-14-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/13460-what-we-re-playing-this-weekend-13-14-august","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re playing this weekend (13-14 August)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tarryn van der Byl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few increasingly blurry, shlurry, ffghhshlurrgy rounds of Halo: Reach Team Swat with some friends and a bottle of vodka later tonight, I&#8217;m sure. Tomorrow and Sunday, I&#8217;ll probably grind out some Seriously 2.0 stats in Gears of War 2, and maybe finish Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet if I can convince myself to give that dghklgjkldfhkljing boss fight another go.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gears_of_war_352498261.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Parmenter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There will be no gaming this weekend as (A) I have a wedding on Saturday, and (B) I have bugger-all to play anyway. Because (C) the July gaming drought lingers on, thanks to (D) a completely useless release calendar and (E) my stubbornness to refuse to play (F) complete and utter crap or (G) the currently non-existent AAA titles.<\/p>\n<p>(H)urry the hell up, Deus Ex.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/00363912_661933707.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>James Etherington-Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only games James will be playing this weekend are Airport Check-in and its direct sequels Passport Control and Baggage claim, because he is on his way to the world&rsquo;s largest video games tradeshow, Gamescom, which kicks of next week in Cologne Germany.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gamescom_671980187.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s taken our 3DS along for the plane, so he may squeeze a few hours of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in on the way over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Kemp<\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another absent MyGaming staffer, Chris is currently backpacking his way through somewhere infinitely more exotic, interesting, and itchy than the rest of us, so we&rsquo;re quite sure he won&rsquo;t be playing any games this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/asia_268050699.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nic Simmonds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like the rest of our team, there&rsquo;s nothing new really reaching out to me right now. I&rsquo;ve been sucked back into the StarCraft II leagues by a few friends, so if I do spend any time playing games this weekend, it&rsquo;s probably be that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/47ca06a8d9e91d1al_310933374.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MyGaming staff continues to flounder through the mid-year games release drought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}