{"id":644443,"date":"2025-12-20T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644443\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:30:22","slug":"what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644443\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Playing This Weekend? &#8211; Issue 612"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 612 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/506a41ec67118\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-612-1.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-612-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 612 1\"\/><\/a> Image: Gemma Smith \/ Push Square<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Twas the weekend before Christmas, when all through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Push Square<\/strong><\/a>, you couldn\u2019t find an editor \u2013 neither hide nor hair. That\u2019s because everyone\u2019s playing PS5, and here\u2019s what\u2019s on our list.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Bayne<\/p>\n<p>This week, I reckon I&#8217;m going to finish off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/resident_evil_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resident Evil 4<\/a>. This has taken me an age to beat despite it not being a long game, but I&#8217;m finally down to the last two chapters.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Banas<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve at long last sat down and started playing through the PS5 update to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/last_of_us_part_ii_remastered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last of Us Part 2<\/a>, and I&#8217;m having a grand time going through it. This is only my second time playing it, a stark contrast to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/last_of_us_part_i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve probably played about 15 times.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie O&#8217;Neill<\/p>\n<p>This year has flown by like speed blur burning my retinas, and with just two weekends left in the year, I&#8217;m racing through my second favourite game of 2025 that overdelivered on expectations, the spiffingly speedy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/sonic_racing_crossworlds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy Barker<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to get on top of my live service games, so I can spend a bit more of the Christmas period trying some of the titles from my backlog. I haven&#8217;t decided what&#8217;s next on my list just yet, but I&#8217;ll let you know as soon as I&#8217;ve decided.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Tailby<\/p>\n<p>As the Christmas period approaches, I&#8217;m not gonna have too much free time, but any I do get will be spent on easy-going stuff, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/lumines_arise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lumines Arise<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/powerwash_simulator_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PowerWash Simulator 2<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/ball_x_pit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ball X Pit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What are you playing this weekend, then? Do you have any lingering preparations to make before Christmas? Let us know below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Gemma Smith \/ Push Square \u2018Twas the weekend before Christmas, when all through Push Square, you couldn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[126,59,55,516,53,16,15,21569],"class_list":{"0":"post-644443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-features","9":"tag-ps4","10":"tag-ps5","11":"tag-talking-point","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-what-are-you-playing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115752615584126913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}