{"id":17032,"date":"2026-01-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:30:00","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616\/","title":{"rendered":"#Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? &#8211; Issue 616"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616\/#Talking_Point_What_Are_You_Playing_This_Weekend_%E2%80%93_Issue_616\" >Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? &#8211; Issue 616<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616\/#Aaron_Bayne\" >Aaron Bayne<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616\/#Jamie_ONeill\" >Jamie O&#8217;Neill<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616\/#John_McCormick\" >John McCormick<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616\/#Sammy_Barker\" >Sammy Barker<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Talking_Point_What_Are_You_Playing_This_Weekend_%E2%80%93_Issue_616\"><\/span>Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? &#8211; Issue 616<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"9f8e79afc1343\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 616 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/9f8e79afc1343\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616-1.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/9f8e79afc1343\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 616 1\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s glacial outdoors so you&#8217;ve genuinely never had a better excuse to cuddle up on the couch and enjoy some good old fashioned video games. You better get working on your backlog to be honest, because the release schedule is about to get bonkers.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Aaron_Bayne\"><\/span>Aaron Bayne<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a couple of embargoed games in the mix that I can&#8217;t talk about at the moment. However, I&#8217;ve actually made the rare move to download a PC game, No Rest for the Wicked, so I&#8217;ll also be giving that a go this weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"for-mobile\">\n<figure class=\"youtube with-primis\" data-videoid=\"y-XGB8_bQ3s\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-XGB8_bQ3s?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<div class=\"video-stage\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top 10 Best PS5 Games Of 2024 (So Far) | PlayStation 5\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-XGB8_bQ3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/pushsquare?sub_confirmation=1\">Push Square<\/a> on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sub-button external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/pushsquare?sub_confirmation=1\"><span class=\"subs-label\">YouTube<\/span><span class=\"subs\">167k<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jamie_ONeill\"><\/span>Jamie O&#8217;Neill<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The icy pavements left behind by Storm Goretti have long since melted away, but there&#8217;s snow aplenty in the final chapters of LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, including during the Escape From Starkiller Base.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"John_McCormick\"><\/span>John McCormick<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This weekend is all about Yakuza 0 Director&#8217;s Cut for me. Other than my Infinity Nikki dailies, I&#8217;m all in on managing my hostess club and earning billions of yen. And battering people. I was planning on getting the Platinum in the PS5 versions of Kiwami, Kiwami 2, and 0 before Kiwami 3 releases but that obviously ain&#8217;t happening so I&#8217;ll just have to settle for 0.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sammy_Barker\"><\/span>Sammy Barker<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit torn about whether I want to finish the Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined demo and import my progress when I buy the full thing, or just wait and start the whole story from scratch once I own it. I&#8217;ll need to make a decision soon.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re playing this weekend, then. Another eclectic mix, to be fair. What about you? As always, let us know in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- cache: html:pushsquare.com\/ssl\/ps5\/related-info\/a6438c5f264fc15b7fc4cc93e5da355a @ 1768730652 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\" first\">The Best PS5 Games (2025)<\/li>\n<li class=\" last\">Best PS4 Games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/game\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Game<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/features\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-issue-616\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? &#8211; Issue 616 It&#8217;s glacial outdoors so you&#8217;ve genuinely never had a better excuse to cuddle up on the couch and enjoy some good old fashioned video games. You better get working on your backlog to be honest, because the release schedule is about to get bonkers&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/9f8e79afc1343\/large.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1414,1426,1400,1425,1427],"class_list":["post-17032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game","tag-features","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-talking-point","tag-what-are-you-playing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}