E3 is next week. Seven days from now, we'll all be chomping at the bit for games that today we have no inkling of. That means this weekend is the last weekend for quite a while where you can play current games without its luster being slightly dimmer by the chronic disease of every gamer — anticipation comes next.

So what will you be playing this weekend? On my part, it's probably well past time I finished up Shadow of the Colossus, a game which I find a lot more brilliant to watch than to actually play. Oh, it's poetically beautiful in its own way, saturated with a despondent sadness and wonder that actually moves. But I must admit I've never found it particularly interesting to gallop through Colossus' dead, empty world. When the Colossi emerge, shedding scales of stone, roaring ancient and chthonic roars... when I climb up its fur, plunge in my sword and the green ichor starts to spurt, I find the game amazing. It's everything in between that bores me. Even the designers themselves seem to recognize the problem: without the context of a world, it would just be an endless series of boss battles. Unfortunately, they only made a cursory attempt at a world... and so all you look forward to seeing are the bosses.

What about you? Tell us about the old games you're revisiting or the new games you've just purchased in the comments.

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