DICE is wrapping up, with the final speaker on stage. Only the annual DICE Poker Tournament remains. Me? I'm about to jump in the car and head back to sunny Los Angeles, ready for a relaxing weekend to be spent not surrounded by developers and press.

On the game front, I'm still slowly working my way through Metroid Prime 2 and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, but may find some time to get in a bit of Resistance: Fall of Man multiplayer. Anyone want to go a few rounds? My copy of the Nintendo DS guitar non-game should have arrived during my absence. In addition to all that digital fun, I'm still playing the real life game of piecing together my surround sound system and dealing with the technical limitations of my cable box (and my brain).

So, what's it gonna be? What in the bloody hell are you playing this weekend? Michael McWhertor