The official work week ends for most of us later this afternoon; five days of toil and sweat, away from our video games.  Oh, ye cruel and merciless heavens how long you conspired to keep us apart!  Oh, tedious week-without-end!  Now that many of us have a couple of days to ourselves, what games are in the queue?  What are we looking forward to playing?  The guys can feel free to add their thoughts or gaming plans for the weekend, and readers; feel free to leave a post as well.

Jon: For the third week in a row, my Fiancée has some of our friends coming over for drinks and such; so I am hoping to try and clock in a little co-operative time with Resident Evil 5, I want to see if I can’t try to catch up with the rest of the guys after starting over so I can collect some of the weapons I hastily missed during my first week of playtime.  I am sure I’ll be showing off MadWorld, if nothing else, just to shock our company’s Wii-centric gamer values. We usually all end up playing a few rounds of Rock Band or SingStar together, and if I’m feeling at all awesome, you’d better believe I’ll be dropping some Europe! IT’S THE FUH-EYE-NUHLL COW-NT-DOWN!!

Saturday is calling for one last snowstorm here on the Rock, and it’s looking like it could be a doozy.  If so I’ll be hunkeirng down (post-shovelling) and cracking into my older games.  I’ve been jonesing to play through Thunder Force V and Einhander again after a short conversation I had with Dave earlier in the week.  Steve is still clutching my copy of Tales of Vesperia, so in lieu of that, I may try to finally get him off my case and play more than 2 hours of Final Fantasy XII.  Actually no…I’m probably just going to end up playing Street Fighter IV while my better half chides me for wearing my ricockulous Ryu headband.

Steve:  I’m guessing my weekend will consist of a hell of a lot of Demon’s Souls. Got my import copy in the mail on Thursday and promptly clocked in over 5 hours. I’m hopelessly enslaved to the point that everything else in my queue has been thrown right onto the backburner. Like Oblivion, i expect this game to own my soul for a couple of hundred hours.It’s a fantastic game for RPG-nuts like myself,  but it’s purely a hardcore exercise, like old school PC – RPG’s from the early/mid ’90′s. There is a review in the making.

I’ve also been playing a little bit of old school Street Fighter (spurred on by all the reading for the Save States column). 

It's like the guys at From Software said, "Let's make a game just for Steve!"