What are you playing: Calm Before the Storm

Just because E3 2011 kicks off on Monday, that doesn't mean we can't get in some gaming time. Actually, it probably means we shouldn't, but who cares?! There are so many quality titles our there, we need to get some gaming in. Here's what we're playing.

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Just because E3 2011 kicks off on Monday, that doesn't mean we can't get in some gaming time. Actually, it probably means we shouldn't, but who cares?! There are so many quality titles our there, we need to get some gaming in.

Here's what Team Shack is up to this weekend. Think of it as the "calm before the storm." What are you up to this weekend, Shackers?

(Click any editor's name to visit their Twitter page. Follow Shacknews on Twitter for regular updates and giveaways.)

  • Garnett Lee: I’ll be playing last push to E3 prep with organization of the Shacknews attack plan for next week but, should time allow, I’m close to finishing up my XBLA playthrough of Torchlight.

  • Xav de Matos: This weekend I'll be making beautiful music with Child of Eden and saving all the ladies of the world in The Witcher 2.

  • Andrew Yoon: I just purchased the Rockstar Pass for LA Noire, and I can't wait to jump back into Cole's shoes.

  • Alice O'Connor: I'm off to a double-bill of Double Indemnity and The Big Sleep--not inspired by L.A. Noire, just because. I've got a fancy new Android phone so any gaming this weekend will be on that, out in the sunshine before E3 has me locked indoors for a week. So far, Game Dev Story is proving hugely distracting and wonderful.

  • Jeff Mattas: I’ll be finishing up L.A. Noire this weekend (including the current DLC), but I’ll probably spend most of my game time Witchering my head off.

  • Steve Watts: I'll continue digging into LA Noire, but other than that I'm stumped. I have games in my backlog but I don't really want to start any of them with the coming tidal wave of games and gaming news. That probably just means I'll play lots and lots of Plants vs Zombies.

  • Ozzie Mejia: Towing the line between good and evil in Infamous 2.

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

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    June 4, 2011 5:00 PM

    Xav de Matos posted a new article, What are you playing: Calm Before the Storm.

    Just because E3 2011 kicks off on Monday, that doesn't mean we can't get in some gaming time. Actually, it probably means we shouldn't, but who cares?! There are so many quality titles our there, we need to get some gaming in. Here's what we're up to this

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      June 4, 2011 5:11 PM

      WEEKEND. What we're up to this weekend! Stupid summary!

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        June 4, 2011 5:17 PM

        xav are you going to tell me all about the new games during e3????????? that would be super cool of you to do

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          June 4, 2011 8:43 PM

          Only if they are Facebook games.

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            June 4, 2011 9:19 PM

            we need more info on upcoming angry birds updates

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            June 5, 2011 6:08 AM

            plz can u keep us up to date on latest call of duty dlc announcements??????

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        June 4, 2011 5:18 PM

        Zav - how are you liking LA? You're great on the podcast btw.

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          June 4, 2011 8:43 PM

          Thanks, guy who refuses to spell my name correctly!

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        June 4, 2011 8:45 PM

        Xav, are you live something-ing any press conferences?

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          June 4, 2011 9:10 PM

          Since all of the conferences are being streamed, we're not going to live blog them. However, Garnett will live-tweet stuff using the Shacknews twitter account. As for the news, Shacknews has a group of people writing all of the news as it happens. We're not going to worry about letting you know how bad the person sitting next to us is and how loud things get... we're focusing on writing stories about the things you actually care about.

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      June 4, 2011 5:19 PM

      Heroes of Newerth!

      World of Tanks!

      NOT Brink!

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      June 4, 2011 5:35 PM

      Witcher 2, Brink.

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      June 4, 2011 5:39 PM

      Chaos Theory

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      June 4, 2011 5:40 PM

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        June 4, 2011 7:20 PM

        I'm not a huge racing fan, but this title intrigued me.

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        June 5, 2011 7:17 AM

        Dirt 3 is all I've been playing recently. I skip the Gymkhanna levels (or put the difficulty on Easy and placing 3rd to get some points) - doing those tricks with a keyboard is ridiculously hard.

        The problem with Dirt is that the load times are incredibly long. I spend almost as much time waiting to race as I do actually racing.

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          June 5, 2011 9:39 AM

          Yea I really hate the multiple load screens just to go from the menu to the start of a race.

          I also don't like having ghosts enabled by default for time trials. You have to start a race just to be able to get to the menu to disable them, and then you have to restart the race.

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      June 4, 2011 5:41 PM

      Started Infamous. Is it more better to go the good or evil route? I don't care one way or another about the implications, I just want to have the best abilities at my disposal for maximum fun.

      Also, the framerate in this game blows. Really notice it when you get to the edge of the map and it's super smooth for a few seconds. Cripes. The facial animations are hilariously bad too. Reminds me of the Canadians on South Park.

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      June 4, 2011 9:19 PM

      Final Fantasy 3 that i got for my new IPad 2.

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      June 5, 2011 3:34 AM

      Minecraft, Brink, CoH, WoW, Rift

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      June 5, 2011 7:40 AM

      Hunted:Demons Forge and Dirt 3 both PC

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      June 5, 2011 8:08 AM

      Still trolling people as Hazama in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.

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      June 5, 2011 10:33 AM

      Woooo! Beat Lara Croft GoL. Now I need to go get all the gubbins I missed. :[

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        June 5, 2011 10:45 AM

        SP or coop?

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        June 6, 2011 6:22 AM

        IMO, the game loses nothing going back for the doodads. Even the speed runs are kinda fun.

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      June 5, 2011 10:38 AM

      Far Cry 2, Gears 2, getting Crysis 2 through gamefly as well as Homefront. Will be kind of trippy playing crysis on the 360..When's the dx11 patch releasing for Crysis2?

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      June 5, 2011 2:04 PM

      my steam page says that i played the dnf demo for 8 hours :O pipebombs, beer, pigcops and shotgun. hmm need moar.

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