December is a good time for new games—the top half of the world is extra dark and cold, and we have time off—but no one wants to spend the holidays working on bug fixes, so it's also a risky time to release new games. It's common for late-in-the-year games to be delayed into the new year , making December a bit of a wild card month.
Good news: This December is one of the cool ones. Marvel's Midnight Suns turned out to be weird and fun, the legendary Dwarf Fortress is finally getting graphics and tutorials, and although we're not sure yet how much we'll like The Callisto Protocol, Itell you that it'll be super gross, so if you wind up with a new GPU over the holidays you'll have something to put its icky gore rendering capabilities to work on.
Also this month: A new space colony sim, an FPS from the co-creator of Rick and Morty, and the 2022 Game Awards. Here's what to look forward to:The new Need for Speed game released somewhat quietly, but early reports say it's fun. We've got a review on the way, but in the meantime, Morgan gave it a try and found that he had
Marvels game, Callisto, gesture vr and compound look interesting. December looks good. Gonna have to make some choices. Only so much time to game.