What are you playing: Down by the Water

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I'm getting ready to pack up and move my life to Los Angeles from Toronto, but before then I need to get some gaming time in. The last two games I've played at home were for review, so it would be nice to actually spend some of my personal time playing for fun.

In the meantime: What are you playing? (Click any editor's name to visit their Twitter page. Follow Shacknews on Twitter for regular updates and giveaways.)

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    March 26, 2011 9:00 AM

    Comment on What are you playing: Down by the Water, by Xav de Matos.

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      March 26, 2011 9:06 AM

      Summary: Some of you MUST be playing games... what are they?

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      March 26, 2011 9:08 AM

      Mount and Blade Warband! I just got my first castle!

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      March 26, 2011 9:09 AM

      Finishing up Stephen King, the video game Alan Wake this morning. Putting in fresh batteries and melting away iron doors.

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      March 26, 2011 9:17 AM

      Actually got to play through some more Borderlands with a friend yesterday (We finished the General Knoxx DLC). Forgot how much I enjoyed this game. Gonna pester him to play some Dawn of War 2 with me this weekend as well. Hopefully lots of Dissidia 012 in between!

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        March 26, 2011 4:04 PM

        ^^^ This. I'm playing through General Knoxx and will do some of the seasonal races in Gran Turismo 5.

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      March 26, 2011 9:21 AM

      I just finished Crysis 2 on Veteran. I might mess about some with multiplayer, and I'll probably be playing Rift.

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      March 26, 2011 9:21 AM

      Finally bought & played all the ME2 DLC in anticipation of Arrival. Really solid stuff, made me want tor replay ME1 + ME2 in their entirety (which I'll probably do at some point this summer).

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      March 26, 2011 9:22 AM

      gettin my rift on

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      March 26, 2011 9:26 AM

      finishing up my second run through of Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction

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        March 26, 2011 6:03 PM

        I played that game for the first time a few weeks ago. It was great! Wish I had played it sooner.

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      March 26, 2011 9:26 AM

      Shows my console friends No Mercy mode in Resident Evil 5 on PC. Bricks laid upon the floor.

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      March 26, 2011 9:29 AM

      Waiting till tomorrow morning, ripping the 3DS out of its box and slapping Pokemon White in there.

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      March 26, 2011 9:29 AM

      Angry Birds PC. The Higher rez textures and mouse controls make it such a superior experience to anything else.

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      March 26, 2011 9:32 AM

      Still working on Stalker SoC. I'm rolling into Chernobyl NPP again. I keep killing all these Dragunov snipers, then as i try to advance, i get shot up and explodinated by one of the 3 Hinds. I can't figure out why they go aggro on me; they ignore me at first, even while they're doing attack runs. I don't know if it's a time limit thing, or due to the number of snipers I kill, or my getting closer to the "Quest Destination".
      I guess I might have to just try shooting one down.

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        March 26, 2011 2:22 PM

        Turns out, after I killed the first three snipers, I just ran and ran and ran, into the next area, while the fight went on around me. Good thing I kept a Moonlight Artifact.

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      March 26, 2011 9:33 AM

      Alternating between learning what all these wacky gauges mean in Flight Simulator X and slowly but surely losing the Seven Years War in Rise of Prussia.

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      March 26, 2011 9:34 AM

      Iracing when I'm fully alert, bc2 when friends are available, and Alan Wake when I'm too tired to do anything else. They really need to retool alans character, the town cop has more charm.

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      March 26, 2011 9:35 AM

      I'm playing through Batman: AA again. This was not a good idea. The game's been on my mind all day every day since I restarted it.

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      March 26, 2011 9:50 AM

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      March 26, 2011 3:23 PM

      Playing:

      Crysis 2: so far better than expected, lots of fun
      Bulletstorm: Hate it, boring, generic gameplay - forcing myself to finish this pofs
      Darksiders: Amazing, completely unexpected!
      BC2: As always!

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      March 26, 2011 3:30 PM

      SC2, COH and ARMA 2

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      March 26, 2011 4:21 PM

      Assassin's Creed Brotherhood on PC is spectacular, loving every minute - best game since AC2. Playing Crysis 2 - 4 hours in and this game is very good but AI issues are holding back a masterpiece. Also playing some Guild Wars

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      March 26, 2011 5:06 PM

      Picked up Lead and Gold yesterday and shot the shit out of my roommate and some other people online. Gunfighter hammer-fan is awesome, as long as you can get in close. Use cover and your carbine-wielding teamies as bait/distractions while you flank and shoot fuck out of them. This is a very fun game to shoot people in.

      Dug up Generals: Zero Hour again after seeing that CnC sale on Steam last week or whatever. Still pretty fun. Fuck the GLA and their cheapness. Just fuck 'em.

      TF2 still hath charms to soothe my savage Brass Beast. I have a pair of nametags and description tags to use. I have a feeling I should use them to make fun of Brazilian waxing or something.

      BFBC2, but my interest is on the wane since I end up on the side that doesn't have 5 lebvel-50's in choppers and shit. I can usually hold my own, but most other masses of pubic hair don't even spot, or don't have the situational awareness to deal with a spotted enemy. :-/

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      March 26, 2011 5:14 PM

      Tiger Woods 10, Lego Indiana Jones with my son, TW12 demo.

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      March 26, 2011 5:21 PM

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      March 26, 2011 6:17 PM

      Devil May Cry 4. I finished Darksiders and wanted another game in the same vein. I think I prefer Darksiders, but DMC4 seems to be alright.

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      March 26, 2011 6:35 PM

      I finished the Witcher, Was great, can't wait for #2. Now I working on Mass Effect for PC. Getting through this pile of shame.

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      March 26, 2011 6:40 PM

      Dragon Age 2, and thinking about firing up Max Payne 2

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      March 27, 2011 2:22 AM

      I'm not too fond of flight games, but am giving the classy Crimson Skies a run. Maybe Just Cause 2 afterwards.

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      March 27, 2011 1:16 PM

      Stalker: Call of Pripyat + "Complete" mod.

      Replaying it from the start today.

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      March 27, 2011 6:21 PM

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      March 27, 2011 8:35 PM

      League of Legends. What else is there?

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