What Are We Playing This Weekend? Elden Ring, Blood Dungeon and More

A long weekend in parts of the UK has shaped this round of weekend gaming plans, with the team splitting time between Elden Ring, Blood Dungeon, Forza, Trackmania, and a few non-gaming chores. The holiday applies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as listed by the UK government, and it has clearly given people a little more room to decide whether to chase bosses, clear guides work, or step away from games for a couple of days.

The clearest theme this week is return trips to familiar games. One editor said recent talk around Elden Ring's Tarnished Edition had stirred up the urge to go back, joking that every version is effectively the Tarnished Edition because the player character is Tarnished from the start. It is a small observation, but it gets at why FromSoftware's game still has that pull years later: even a marketing beat can send players back to the Lands Between.

Another pick is more secretive. One team member said the plan is to spend more time with an unnamed game first mentioned a week earlier, with Forza and NBA 2K set aside as possible side games if there is any spare time. That kind of rotation makes sense for a weekend stack, especially when racing and sports games are easy to dip into between longer sessions elsewhere.

The most committed answer belongs to Blood Dungeon. One editor said they were already late to the start of Opening Night Live because they were playing it, then kept playing throughout the show on Steam Deck, and stayed up with it on nights that should probably have been reserved for sleep ahead of Gamescom appointments. That sounds less like a tentative weekend plan and more like a game that has fully taken over someone's schedule. The Steam Deck mention is notable too, because it points to the kind of game that works well in short bursts but can quietly eat an entire evening.

There is also some practical gaming on the list. One team member said this weekend will mostly be spent on Mortal Shell 2 while recovering from illness, with the goal of getting a walkthrough caught up with the player base. That is a different sort of play session, one shaped by deadlines and the need to stay in step with readers. Trackmania is pencilled in as the lighter counterweight, which feels like a sensible pairing after a heavier action RPG.

Not everyone is playing. One editor said they are taking time off from video games after a run of third-person action adventures full of hard bosses and parry timing. Instead, the weekend is going toward installing new garden edging with their wife, described as its own kind of boss battle, only one that demands less precision. It is the most domestic answer in the group, and probably the healthiest.

Another tease comes from a staffer who said they are spending the weekend with a game disguised behind a joking fake title and a coy reference to its publisher. That is not much to go on, but it adds one more unrevealed project to a weekend that already feels split between public obsessions and private assignments.

Taken together, the plans paint a familiar late-summer picture: some people are chasing a fresh fixation, some are revisiting old favorites, some are working, and some are using the extra day to do anything other than stare at another boss health bar.