{"id":5351,"date":"2022-01-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/looking-forward-looking-at-established-genres-in-new-ways\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:00:00","slug":"looking-forward-looking-at-established-genres-in-new-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/looking-forward-looking-at-established-genres-in-new-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward: Looking at established genres in new ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Hello! We&#8217;re going to start the year off with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/archive\/looking-forward\">a handful of pieces looking forward to 2022<\/a>. Sometimes we&#8217;ll be looking at trends we&#8217;ve spotted or themes that will probably be continuing to define things in games for a while. 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