In fact, it features a remarkably sedate group of responses talking not only about what your favorite Massively staff members will be doing for the weekend, but how much of our social lives come from the MMOs we talk about all day. Dark Age of Camelot’s Midwinter Festival features decorated taverns, four special guests who will come to the Realms to spread holiday cheer (and gifts!), and an opportunity to participate in the Trinkets for Tots quest to spread a little of their own holiday cheer. Legends of Norrath is offering players a special Holiday Bundle pack full of great items, including one of the mounts from the retired Oathbound expansion. Players can carol door to door and exchange gifts, as well as take on a new holiday mission to receive a rat shoulder pet. And my enormous ranting diatribe still sits in the archives for anyone who missed it the first time or just wants to take a second look for posterity. Log in and take a look around, where you’ll find electric decorations in the streets, Christmas trees in city halls’ gardens and other buildings, a Christmas market with an animated merry-go-round, and Santa Claus and his sledge.

We’d pay a few rupees to look that good on Halloween. Halloween events are my favorite seasonal gigs in pretty much every game I play. So far, I haven’t run into any reason from the past not to play it. So click on past the break for our answers, and let us know what you’ll be playing this weekend in the comments! I’d like to run some missions in EVE Online but playing while sick is probably a recipe for disaster. It’s been a while since I’ve played much, so gaming has slowly filled in some gaps. Ryan Greene (@ThatGayNerd): I don’t have a lot of gaming planned, as usual. You can make a lot of money in insurance by collecting payments and then doing everything possible to avoid paying out to the insured, but that doesn’t make your actions laudable. But I figured I’d switch it up and feature the best of the best, and after an afternoon searching, I can safely say that these are the 20 most badass video game cosplay costumes ever. PS4, Vita and PC users are all invited to the remake’s party, provided they can face the horrors awaiting poor Isaac.

If there’s one thing I love in my fiction other than giant robots, it would have to be sanity-blasting horrors from outside the realm of human perception. Both camps then unite in a chant of ‘Stand up if you love the darts’ – to the tune of Go West by the Village People. We’d love to hear from you too. Enjoy a new costume, new decorations, and take a ride on Randolph, the flying reindeer mount! All my friends are very spread out, and the internet is the best way to keep in touch. It just means that you’ve found a way to make money without spending much, and that’s clearly higher on your priority list than ethics. One of my friends just described his character over Skype with me, and I was able to make him a doll. Actually, a good chunk of my friends are now “online,” but part of that is because I have lived all over the country. It’s available for pre-order now from Amazon UK and directly from Merge Games. Automata without a doubt one of this year s biggest standout games is the yoko taro directed nier.

Hindman): I will be playing all sorts of stuff, but catching up with some games that have gone neglected like Mabinogi and it’s one billionth update. Stratton): I’ll be playing Runes of Magic and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. Brianna Royce (@nbrianna): I’m playing the real-world equivalent of Desert Bus for the weekend, I fear. I promised my friend I’d help her at any time if she needed extra hands and wished her the best of luck. As far as my social life is concerned, I think I would have to answer honestly and say that, although I meet and greet a great multitude of people online every day, my one real best friend is here at home with me. People could use a pair of “tweezers” and actually perform the surgeries on me and I would buzz just like the game Operation! These involve usually three teams — one team made up of the player characters themselves, another made up of alts or player characters acting as “monsters” who must slow the player characters down, and a third team which does not participate in the roleplay at all but instead acts as referees and game master, ensuring the story bends to the will of the characters taking part.