Effectively give your self a pat on the again, pour your self a stiff drink and set free a sigh of reduction: in some way we have made it by to the final working day of 2022. We’re again in earnest from January third, and there is a lot scheduled over the subsequent week or two to maintain you entertained with a complete host of our Video games of 2022 collection, Ian and Zoe offering a veritable blizzard of movies together with a watchalong of some actually terrible Christmas cartoons and naturally the normal festive lists. It would not be Christmas with out them actually, wouldn’t it?
We have simply completed placing collectively the Reader’s Prime 50 which throws up some fascinating outcomes – thanks, as ever, to your glorious contributions – and our personal decide of 37 of the 12 months’s most interesting (why 37? As a result of we’re annoying like that, however I am positive you knew that already).
It has been enlightening working by all of them, and it highlights what a 12 months it has been. An odd 12 months, sure – in almost 15 years of writing about video video games, I am unable to keep in mind a quieter 12 months for large ticket triple-A titles, however I can also’t keep in mind a 12 months that is provided fairly a lot high quality or variety. It may be straightforward to neglect as we twiddle our thumbs ready for the likes of Starfield or Tears of the Kingdom, however there’s actually by no means been a greater time for the medium should you like your video video games a little bit fascinating.
And, in fact, we’re staring down the barrel of a 12 months that provides big-hitters like Bethesda’s subsequent blockbuster RPG and Nintendo’s follow-up to a contemporary masterpiece, plus probably the most promising mainline Last Fantasy in a technology or two, an all-new Road Fighter from a Capcom that is firing on all cylinders and – approaching for eight years after Shigeru Miyamoto first instructed us all about it – Pikmin goddamn 4. 2023 guarantees to be actually particular, and I am already tingling with pleasure for what’s to come back.
However let’s sit again and replicate on what’s been, and possibly even get pleasure from a break from all of the noise and trouble. It has been a delight to have you ever together with us in 2022, and I am hoping to see you again right here in 2023. Thanks for being right here, and should you may have a merry Christmas and a really comfortable new 12 months.
