Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Nintendo/The Pokémon Company, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Bandai Namco Entertainment/JP: FromSoftware
The video-game levy is about to break. After a long COVID slumber marked by dispiriting delays, botched launches, and the murky unreality of living through the aftershocks of a global pandemic, the first few months of 2022 are absolutely lousy with high-profile releases. The power brokers of the game industry admitted defeat last summer and hastily retreated from the 2021 Christmas season. That collective evacuation has led to a historic, panic-inducing bottleneck at the end of February. Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, and a new Destiny expansion all come out in the same week. Smaller studios are actually…
