{"id":4667,"date":"2022-08-06T09:20:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-6th\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T09:20:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:20:52","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 6th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fight to live, live to play games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s been a busy week for Nintendo fans, and for us at Nintendo Life! Not only has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-2-is-now-available\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe&#8217;s Wave 2 finally dropped<\/a>, but Game Freak and The Pok\u00e9mon Company gave us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-trailer-unveils-region-name-and-new-mechanics\">plenty of news on Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a>! Nintendo also delivered its Q1 financial results, where it reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/nintendo-reports-drop-in-sales-for-q1-should-we-be-worried\">a drop in over sales<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And while some of us really want <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-all-i-want-from-mario-kart-8s-dlc-is-more-tracks-like-baby-park\">more Mario Kart DLC tracks like Baby Park<\/a>, others of us are feeling very enthused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-for-a-jaded-pokemon-fan-scarlet-and-violet-is-exactly-what-i-need\">new Pok\u00e9mon details<\/a>. Lastly, we all have a few games on our Switch that are hard to categorise, so why not check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/best-switch-games-that-dont-fit-in-other-lists-of-best-switch-games\">our list of the best games that don&#8217;t really have a genre<\/a>? Or have multiple genres? They&#8217;re just hard to categorise. Unique, let&#8217;s say.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-6th\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 6th)<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fight to live, live to play games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s been a busy week for Nintendo fans, and for us at Nintendo Life! Not only has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-2-is-now-available\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe&#8217;s Wave 2 finally dropped<\/a>, but Game Freak and The Pok\u00e9mon Company gave us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-trailer-unveils-region-name-and-new-mechanics\">plenty of news on Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a>! Nintendo also delivered its Q1 financial results, where it reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/nintendo-reports-drop-in-sales-for-q1-should-we-be-worried\">a drop in over sales<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And while some of us really want <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-all-i-want-from-mario-kart-8s-dlc-is-more-tracks-like-baby-park\">more Mario Kart DLC tracks like Baby Park<\/a>, others of us are feeling very enthused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-for-a-jaded-pokemon-fan-scarlet-and-violet-is-exactly-what-i-need\">new Pok\u00e9mon details<\/a>. Lastly, we all have a few games on our Switch that are hard to categorise, so why not check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/best-switch-games-that-dont-fit-in-other-lists-of-best-switch-games\">our list of the best games that don&#8217;t really have a genre<\/a>? Or have multiple genres? They&#8217;re just hard to categorise. 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