Ben Berry - Staff Writer/Influencer of Children (shudder)
My 13 and 9 year nieces will be visiting this weekend and bringing their Nintendo DS/DS Lites. So likely I`ll be spending at least part of my weekend play MarioKart DS, Animal Crossing, or some animal based game on the DS between trips to the Zoo and the pool.

Elliot Bonnie - Staff Writer/Big Daddy in training
Eat... Sleep... Bioshock demo

Sean Colleli - Staff Writer/PS2 Sellout
I finally got around to buying a PS2, partially because Nintendo has forsaken its hardcore fans but mostly because I NEEDED GUITAR HERO. I`ve played both games before at parties and such, but actually owning them is something else. I`ve come to realize that they have a sort of sado-masochistic quality, much like Trauma Center and various shmups. I`m working my way through career on medium and I find it decently challengng, but I`ll need to do some seriuos practicing for Hard and Expert. That fifth orange fret button still haunts my nightmares.

Randy Kalista - Staff Writer/Picker of open wounds
I`m taking a nostalgic lens to XBLA`s much-debated (at least here at GamingNexus) Track and Field, and hoping the 360`s thumbsticks can take more abuse than the old Boss joysticks from my Commodore 64 days. Since I`m not an inherently evil person, Overlord makes for a splendidly cathartic experience. And I`m also wearing a rubber band around my wrist and giving it a hearty *snap* as the urge to play through the fan-friggin`-tastic Bioshock demo keeps arising … simply because I don`t want to wear any part of the experience thin before I pick up this bad boy on Tuesday.

Shawn Sines - Staff Writer/Civ Player Anonymous Founder
I am absorbed by Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword. I have given up eating, work and everything else this weekend to my recurring addiction to the insipid Civ series. This expansion won`t let me go. I think I hear ambulances coming to take me to the hospital due to my extreme dehydration. I wonder if they`ll let me take my laptop with me.

Cyril Lachel - Senior Staff Writer/Bullet Witch Survivor
Now that I`m done with Alien Syndrome (PSP/Wii) I`m actually hard pressed to think of any games to play. I can already see my future: In a week or two I`m going to be complaining about having too much to play. But for now I`m finding myself at a loss. Now that I have this downtime I figure that it`s about time I go back and actually play some games that I`ve been meaning to get to. Despite enjoying the original, I`ve never actually gone all the way through Zone of the Enders 2. I bought it years ago but never got past the first ten minutes, not sure why. I have no more excuses so now is my chance to go through the game everybody raved about ... four years ago. And if I finish that up maybe I can actually beat one of the Splinter Cell games. I own all of them, yet for some odd reason I can`t get into them enough to get past the first few levels. Or maybe it`s time for me to collect all of the achievement points in Bullet Witch. On second thought, I would probably have more fun not playing games than playing Bullet Witch!

Tyler Sager - Senior Staff Writer/Gen Con attendee
I`ll be heading down the street to visit GenCon this weekend, so I most likely won`t have too much time for at-home gaming. I`ll be dropping by to spend some time with the good folks at Atari, and I`m really looking forward to getting a look at The Witcher, along with several of their other titles. Of course, I`ll also just be wandering the gaming floor, taking in the sights and sounds of the GenCon gaming goodness. I`ll be sure to report back with any interesting tidbits I happen to pick up.

If I do have a few spare moments, I`ll most likely spend them with Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword or Titan Quest .

Charles Husemann - Editor In Chief/Plasmid Master
After playing the Home Owners Associaion Approval turn based strategy game for the last two months I think I`m going to be sitting outside on the new deck for a bit and working on some reviews. Other than that I`ll probably continue to grind in Tabula Rasa and play the Bioshock demo a few more times.

John Yan - Senior Hardware Editor/Loser of Sleep
I`m going to try Tabula Rasa and of course, BioShock.