{"id":14552,"date":"2011-10-07T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"what-we-re-playing-this-weekend-7-9-october-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/14552-what-we-re-playing-this-weekend-7-9-october-2011","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re playing this weekend (7 \u2013 9 October 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chris Kemp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I decided to help a good cause and get my indie on (and I&#8217;m a sucker for awesome deals) by purchasing the Humble Indie Bundle. Trauma was creepy but short, and Frozen Synapse looks like it&rsquo;s going to take a long time and a lot of mental energy (though still fun). The real gem for me however, has been Trine, a surprisingly awesome platform RPG with sweet gameplay, a cool story and tight controls. So aside from my usual staples, it&#8217;s going to be a whole load of indie goodness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/frozen_synapse_screenshot_425858427.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"339\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Fronzen Synapse<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quinton Bronkhorst<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This weekend is my birthday weekend (please send all well-wishes &ndash; i.e. money &#8211; to the usual address, thanks); so to celebrate, I&#8217;m locking myself away in my room and hitting Gears of War 3 hard before I get dragged out to do something social. I invited the Dalai Lama over for a bit of Horde 2.0, but he made some lame excuse about not getting a Visa in time :&lt;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gears_of_war_3_screenshot_gears_3___campaign_ravens_03_813330072.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Gears of War 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Derrick Cramer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am so sick of racing games! There I said it. I guess I&#8217;m all raced out after many long nights in Trackmania Nations and F1 2011. Both kept pulling me back in for more. I&#8217;ll probably go through my Steam games collection and attempt to play some of the titles I bought on special, which include Hexen, Brothers in Arms and Wolfenstein 3D.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hexen_Centau_776248459.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hexen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarryn van der Byl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Resident Evil 4 HD. Apparently no matter how many times I &#8220;accidentally&#8221; shoot Ashley, she keeps nagging me to hurry up and rescue her. Some girls just cannot take a hint, even when it&#8217;s a $30 000, 40mm rocket in the face.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"files.php?file=RE4_Screenshot_2_619629001.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Resident Evil 4 &#8211; HD<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>James Etherington-Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m a bad, bad, bad gaming journalist, with far too many reviews piling up on my desk. I&rsquo;ll be punishing myself by trying to not suck at Dark Souls. I&rsquo;ve barely started the introductory level and I&rsquo;ve died five times. This game is living up to its brutal reputation &#8211; which is why I must defeat it!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dark_Souls_screenshot_4_992738154.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dark Souls<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What are you playing this weekend? Let us know in the comments section below and on the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/136-What-are-you-playing-right-now?p=545128&amp;viewfull=1#post545128\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MyGaming forum\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MyGaming forum<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mixed bag of gaming goodness this weekend for MyGaming staffers, from indie to AAA. What are you playing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}