Hello! We’re going to start the year off with a handful of pieces looking forward to 2022. Sometimes we’ll be looking at trends we’ve spotted or themes that will probably be continuing to define things in games for a while. Sometimes we’ll just be thinking about things we’ve enjoyed and where they could lead. Have a lovely new year all!
According to industry soothsayers, 2022 will be the year of NFTs in videogames. In case you’ve somehow yet to have the pleasure, an NFT or non-fungible token is essentially a glorified IOU bought with a cryptocurrency, an unregulated and “decentralised” digital currency mostly created by having masses of computers do hard sums at staggering energy expense as “proof of work”, and stored on an online ledger called a blockchain.