14 DAY TRIAL // Andrei Dumitrescu: This weekend and the rest of next week I will be away in Vienna, the capital of Austria, trying to do some sightseeing and to relax after a few months filled with game reviews and news.
I have no plans to take any kind of handheld video game system with me, and even the phones me and my companions are carrying will only be used for communication and navigation rather than for gaming.
Vienna is a city filled with both history and art, and when I visit the various museums I will probably think a little about the titles, especially strategy-focused ones, which have included the capital as a setting or as an important population and production center.
I will return to my regularly scheduled gaming program next week.
Andrei Dobra
My weekend will be filled with a bit of console gaming, starting with Futuridium EP Deluxe on the PS4, the sci-fi retro arcade game that's also available on the PS Vita via Cross-Buy. The title looks quite interesting and I'm eager to see how the game handles on the new Sony home console, but also on the portable one.
When I won't be trying out the new arcade game, I'll probably go back to the Xbox One for Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, as I'm eager to do a few more things in Hong Kong before moving onto another title.
So that my PC doesn't feel neglected, I might jump a bit into Dota 2, especially since this weekend sees ESL One New York take place in the large U.S. city.
Radu Haulica
I never liked horror movies, probably due to an inexplicable fear of the dark as a child, which pushed me to read from an early age in order to understand that there was nothing lurking out there. Thus, I was never able to sympathize with people watching stereotypical slasher movies where stupid characters make stupid choices and end up dead, with nobody being able to pick up a weapon and fight, and so on and so forth.
I never liked movies where nothing happens either, and my years of playing Starcraft at 200+ actions per minute made me lose every last ounce of patience and desire that everything happened at once everywhere, hardly discernible through the chaos, but supremely satisfying. That being said, I'm willing to give Alien: Isolation a chance. I remember being very scared when I first watched Ridley Scott's movie, even though the Xenomorph didn't get too much screen time, and I'm curious to see if a more testing horror video game can provide a similar experience.