COLUMN: 'Elden Ring' perseveres as 2022 game of the year, Styles

One will look back on 2022 and see it as a relative disappointment in terms of releases throughout the video game industry. Between prolonged development times, hard to find hardware and the stubbornness of Covid, publishers and developers spent much more time working hard behind the scenes this year rather than in front of the cameras hyping their latest releases. But that still hasn’t stopped a number of quality releases that have defined the year, and subsequently the budding new generation of consoles. Sony led the three manufacturers with “Horizon: The Forbidden Wests” and “God of War Ragnarok,” but it was a smaller Japanese studio that earned this year’s game of the year honors.

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