{"id":21779,"date":"2022-12-15T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-best-video-game-surprises-of-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:05:00","slug":"the-best-video-game-surprises-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-best-video-game-surprises-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Video Game Surprises Of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>2022, as with many recent years, was a bit of a flaming trainwreck as we continued to deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/covid-testing-is-such-a-clusterfuck-even-wario64-is-try-1848313848\">covid-19 pandemic<\/a> (and other viruses, too), <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/xbox-series-x-s-price-increase-nintendo-sony-ps5-1849459253\">soaring inflation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/elon-musk-2022-elden-ring-build-twitter-deus-ex-gun-1849865625\">idiotic tech bros<\/a> destroying things, and, unfortunately, so much more. But there was actually some good things that happened this year, so if you want a\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/best-video-game-news-announcements-surprises-2022-1849899925\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022, as with many recent years, was a bit of a flaming trainwreck as we continued to deal with the covid-19 pandemic (and other viruses, too), soaring inflation, idiotic tech bros destroying things, and, unfortunately, so much more. 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