Tis the season, folks – the season of lists. All around the media world, 2022’s games, albums, films et cetera are being coralled into contentious rankings for everyone in the office (and the comments section) to argue over. Our own Guardian games list is prepped and ready, but I want to hear what games you’ve been enjoying over the past 12 months. Hit reply on this newsletter and write me a few sentences on your favourites, and I’ll compile them for an end-of-year special issue.
If you’ve been reading for a while, you’ll know that I have not been the luckiest when it comes to introducing video games to my children. My stepson, now 17, always loved games, but his taste diverged so massively from mine that we rarely intersected, bar a few treasurable months when Minecraft first came out, and a year of shared Destiny adventures before he got good enough to comprehensively outplay me. These days I’m constantly hassling him to try something like Bloodborne, when all he wants to play is first-person shooters.
