Press Start! Weekly Top 5 list chronicling the happenings in gaming in the past seven days.

The abridged week always leads to a certain funk that bookmarks both sides of it. You begin checking out prior to the Holiday, and the days that follow are (for most of us, I’d wager) a haze of recuperation, lament at the end of the Holiday, and an attempt to gain your footing again.

As such, the world of gaming news is either unremarkable, or I frankly didn’t give much of a shit. Too busy trying to burn off the impressive caloric excess while simultaneously polish off the remainder of flesh and sweets that populated my house.

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This is Press Start!, the column where I spit about video games. A top five list of the happenings in the gaming world from a particular 168-hour span. I’m a bit distracted today. You see, here in the comfortable bosom of the United States, the glorious day of Burning Flesh and Explosion-Based Dismemberment is coming upon us! I can’t fucking wait. The next few days are merely filler, perhaps filled with the party before the party. Grab a group of friends and regardless of allegiances and ideologies, get your community smiles on. Let’s just get through this so we can all go grab some beverages and chuckle either in a backyard or a CoD lobby.

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The BioShock Infinite demo from E3 made many a journalist and blogger cream their pantaloons. The game cleaned up with 35 ‘Game of the Show’ awards. I dream of playing that demo, my fat little fingers giggling as I once again get my Levine-gland stroked. Until then, I’ll have to sate myself with the fact that on July 7, GTTV on Spike is running a 30 minute presentation of that.

Just to tease the tip-lips, they’ve released a 2 minute section of it.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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