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Aziz: Getting into Enslaved. Lovely lovely game. Played Your Shape: Fitness Evolved for two days straight and still feeling the burn. Then a ton of other Kinect games a couple of days later. Really enjoyed Kinectimals and some of the Kinect Adventures games are actually fun. Overall, I understand the appeal of Kinect now and like it. Checked out Conduit 2 too and that game is looking to make up for some of the short comings of the original.

Concelmo: I played mostly Professor Layton and the Unwound Future and Super Meat Boy.

Both games are amazing. One may just be my favorite game of the year (next to Super Mario Galaxy 2). Which one could it be? THE SUSPENSE MUST BE KILLING YOU!

Holmes: I think it's Super Meat Boy, but it could easily be Layton as well. Both are basically the best things to happen to their respective genres in the years, maybe all years.

As for me,I got to play the Conduit 2, writing a preview for that as we speak. Also played Ninja Gaiden II on the NES, an arcade game called Bubble 2000, Bit.Trip BEAT, Bit.Trip CORE, World of Goo,  Ivy the Kiwi? Mini, Pokemon White, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, Rhythm Tengoku, and a little bit of Enslaved.

 

Bennett, C.: Absolutely OBSESSED with Costume Quest. Haven't played anything else since it came out.
 

Sterling: Fallout: New Vegas is the biggie. Post-review I am still unable to keep away from it, even with the famous bugs, which have done little to dampen my love of the game. Also beat Fable III, and I can't talk about that because we have a review coming. Then there was Time Crisis: Razing Storm, which is stupid, but not in an altogether bad way.

Chester: Lots and lots of stuff, as I had to evaluate a bunch of games for the Spike Video Game Awards. Also, rocking a bunch of games for review and preview. Since I can't talk about a lot of it, here's just the list of games I've played over the past week: Dead Nation, Splatterhouse, LittleBigPlanet 2, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Costume Quest, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, The Shoot, WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011, The Sims 3 on console, Rock of the Dead, Fable III… I must be forgetting something. And in the coming week, it looks like I'll have somewhere in the range of 17 games to play with a certain camera that tracks human skeletons or something.

Oh, and Rock Band 3, which I continue to play well after the time I spent with it for review. Of course.

North: Ys: Oath in Felghana on PSP is a beautifully made game. So is Knights in the Nightmare. I love my PSP this week.

Devore: An ungodly amount of Super Meat Boy and some Fallout: New Vegas. Also, this stellar (free) game Conrad turned me on to called Super Crate Box.

Razak: For the first time in I don't know how many years I didn't play a single video game during the week. DAMN YOU, FLIXIST!

Leray: A lot of Super Meat Boy. On any other website, this might be considered oversharing, but my thumb really hurts.

Bennett, H.: Since I am apparently not as cool as the rest of the UK games press, I don't have a copy of Fable III and couldn't be assed to spend £39.99 on Fallout: New Vegas before payday this week.

Instead this week saw the death of my 20GB launch 360 and the purchase of my new 250GB 360 Slim, so I've finally been able to get into Enslaved. On top of that I've spent time with my PSP as I picked up Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, which has been utterly amazing so far. I am in love with it! First proper KH game since the PlayStation 2 as far as I'm concerned.

Toletino: Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 for review, with some Fallout: New Vegas for me. Though I have yet to encounter any of the many, many bugs the game has become known for, I am confident that my compulsive need to save every ten to fifteen minutes (and then back those saves up manually) will help me pull through without incident.

Also, the PC version is superior, because we don't have to push our patches (and user-created "unofficial" patches) through Microsoft or Sony certification.

Sarkar: I've been so busy with school — it's midterm season — that I haven't been gaming at all during the week. But I'm pumped for the launch of Rock Band 3 this week, and I wanted to get some practice in. So I decided to buy the $10 LEGO Rock Band song export, which ended up being a 1294-MB download, which ended up taking the better part of two fucking days to download on my PS3. Get your shit together, Sony, jeez.

At some point on Saturday night, I just paused the download and popped in Rock Band 2 to play some more of the career mode on drums, and also, I finally went back into the Drum and Fill Trainers to get the two bronze Trophies in each of them. Yay!