Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (12th October)

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Put your Alarmo on snooze and settle into the weekend, it's time for another edition of What Are You Playing!

If that opening line wasn't enough of a reminder, we got the announcement of new Nintendo hardware this week (but not that one). Yes, Nintendo revealed the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, a device that only the Big N could come up with to help us out of bed in the morning. And by our account, it's really rather cool.

But that's not all. This week brought us news of a mysterious Nintendo Switch Online playtest, we finally got a release date for those swanky Pokémon Crocs, we pondered over a potential October Direct announcement and we went hands-on with Mario & Luigi: Brothership (which we loved).

Pretty busy after a sleepy couple of months! Now, let's see what we're all up to this weekend. Surely it won't still be Zelda...