{"id":6545,"date":"2022-08-02T13:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/pushing-buttons-the-fast-furious-world-of-games-releases\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:36:28","slug":"pushing-buttons-the-fast-furious-world-of-games-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/pushing-buttons-the-fast-furious-world-of-games-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: the fast, furious world of games releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Games announcements have become relentless. How\u2019s a player to keep up? Start with our summer previews<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a time when it was possible to play pretty much every interesting video game released in a given year, from nailed-down 9\/10 blockbusters to that divisive horror curio. That\u2019s not the case now \u2013 not only because games have gotten longer and more involving, as I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/jul\/26\/pushing-buttons-my-search-for-finite-jest-neverending-games\">wrote about last week<\/a>, but also because so many of them are released. The publisher model, where a few big companies controlled the release calendar, has given way to a mix of legacy megaliths (Sony, EA, Nintendo, Microsoft), indie publishers (Devolver, Annapurna, Team17), self-releasing developers and everything in between. How is a player supposed to keep up?<\/p>\n<p>Good curation is one of the most useful things a games critic can offer in 2022. But even though it\u2019s my job to know what\u2019s going on in video games, stuff flies under my radar all the time. There used to be a few days of game announcements a year at big conferences such as E3 and the Tokyo Game Show (and Nintendo Space World, for fans of a certain vintage). Now there is a year-round stream of announcements, updates and teases. Sometimes I\u2019ll have kept an eye on an interesting game for a year, only to discover that it was surprise-released two weeks ago. It drives me nuts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/aug\/02\/pushing-buttons-how-to-keep-up-with-new-releases-summer-previews\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/baea340c7284741e378f795083cfa35c90e1479a\/63_0_1243_746\/master\/1243.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7f7c5fa4e9da80d295bee0371f770c15\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: the fast, furious world of games releases\" \/>Games announcements have become relentless. How\u2019s a player to keep up? Start with our summer previews<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nThere was a time when it was possible to play pretty much every interesting video game released in a given year, from nailed-down 9\/10 blockbusters to that divisive horror curio. That\u2019s not the case now \u2013 not only because games have gotten longer and more involving, as I wrote about last week, but also because so many of them are released. The publisher model, where a few big companies controlled the release calendar, has given way to a mix of legacy megaliths (Sony, EA, Nintendo, Microsoft), indie publishers (Devolver, Annapurna, Team17), self-releasing developers and everything in between. How is a player supposed to keep up?<br \/>\nGood curation is one of the most useful things a games critic can offer in 2022. But even though it\u2019s my job to know what\u2019s going on in video games, stuff flies under my radar all the time. There used to be a few days of game announcements a year at big conferences such as E3 and the Tokyo Game Show (and Nintendo Space World, for fans of a certain vintage). Now there is a year-round stream of announcements, updates and teases. Sometimes I\u2019ll have kept an eye on an interesting game for a year, only to discover that it was surprise-released two weeks ago. It drives me nuts. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games announcements have become relentless. How\u2019s a player to keep up? Start with our summer previews Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here There was a time when it was possible to play pretty much every interesting video game released in a given year, from nailed-down 9\/10 blockbusters to that divisive &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/pushing-buttons-the-fast-furious-world-of-games-releases\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: the fast, furious world of games releases<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}