Article Synopsis: Games are always prone to delays, and that’s becoming increasingly true as they get bigger and more ambitious, yet over the past few years, games large and small have been uncharacteristically delayed, and the impact of covide-enforced remote work requirements is still very much in evidence, and we’re not even halfway through 2022, and already a lot of games have been delayed. Some have been delayed by a few months, some by more, and we have a feeling that there will be many more of these to come, so in this feature, in addition to talking about a few major games that have been delayed, we will also talk about some games that may be delayed.
In this feature, in addition to talking about a few major games that have already been delayed, we’ll also talk about some games that are likely to follow in their footsteps, keeping in mind that we’re only talking about games that had or still have an official 2022 launch window or date that was delayed. But as time goes on, there is a growing belief that the game is unlikely to launch this year, for one thing, we don’t even have a name for the game yet, and updates to the game have been missing.
Since last year’s E3, not much more than the fact that the mainline Zelda game has a history of getting delayed with all of this in mind, it was almost a surprise when the breathtakingly wild sequel, whatever Nintendo eventually called it was pushed to the spring of 2023 saying that it wasn’t that long of a distance before Forspoken was given a May release date In fact, just as recently as December In the months since then, Square Enix has released new details about the game at a fairly regular pace, it was delayed from May to October, which was a bit surprising at the time, but only in terms of timing, and the fact that For spoken definitely seemed to need the extra development time. Earlier this year, media impressions of the game didn’t seem to be very good, and the gameplay footage that was revealed at times looked underwhelming.
Apparently, Square Enix and Luminous Productions felt that For spoken needed a few extra months, and we hope that this decision pays off. Stalker 2 has already suffered not one but two major delays in 2022.
At last year’s E3, developer GSC Game World announced a release date for the game in April, then in early January this year it was pushed back to December 8, and a few months later, Ukraine based GSC Game World had to suspend development of the game and put everything on hold. Its employees had to focus on the more pressing need to survive Russia’s still ongoing invasion of their country, and given the volatile and unpredictable nature of the situation at the time, there remains little point in speculating when the game will resume development or release.
With recent reports that GSC Game World is looking to move some of its development team to the Czech Republic, but the studio has yet to make any official statements about it, Children of the Forest is honestly not too surprising this time around, and it’s not the first delay the game has faced. Although developer in night games initially planned to release the game in 2021, they ended up delaying the game to 2022 and later gave a release date of May 20 a few months before that date, but in night games announced that Children of the Forest has been delayed This time it was delayed again to October because the game was barely close to the release date With any updates, this delay isn’t surprising, and neither is Suicide Squad Justice League. When Rocksteady’s new game was announced for 2020, it wasn’t surprising that WB Games gave it a 2022 release window. But in the time between then and its delay, we got only one new substantial trailer and a lack of updates in February, when Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier claimed the game was delayed, so it wasn’t exactly a shock when the following month it was officially delayed until spring 2023, except for Lgo Star Wars the Skywalker Saga, Gotham Knights and Hogwarts Saga, the publisher’s schedule was already full this year, so it’s not like they couldn’t postpone a project that might have been delayed, Scorn How long have we been waiting? At the time, there was no update for most of 2021, so it wasn’t exactly a shock to announce at the end of that year that the game was being pushed to 2022.
