Lolcow Stuff:
Yaniv goes to jail/sanitarium
EDP dies
1 cow with a thread turns into a shooter, probably a man-o-sphere. I don't follow them and can't guess who.
Twitter employees unionize
Trannies win, KF dies. There will never be another. They say that when you leave a place part of it goes with you and part of you remains...
Real Life Stuff:
Biden continues running for re-election, which some of you will find surprising.
Trump, DeSantis, Cruz, Kasich, Hawley, Hailey and Tim Scott are all running for the R nod. Youngkin, Pence, Rubio, Rick Scott and Graham sit it out.
Kevin McCarthy becomes speaker, zero Democrats are kicked off of committee (remember when that was going to be a thing.)
Can't predict Ukraine specifics, but I don't think it remains a stalemate-someone has a successful offensive somewhere.
Widespread fuel shortages/black and brownouts do not occur in most of western and central europe.
Russia does not go bankrupt or face a currency collapse, the gas/oil price limits are quickly broken.
Turkey continues to refuse to sign off on Swedish NATO membership, Hungary does not accept Sweden or Norway, never gives a reason why. A few powers and neighboring states sign a smaller agreement with them until those political issues are resolved.
Iran protests amount to nothing, again. Or did that already happen, lol?
Bibi expands settlements, Biden does nothing to reign him in.
China returns to previous lockdown policy by the end of February, lets slack again in four to six months.
Video Game Stuff (there's more here but I have a massive self-made chart of who is making what so I don't have to rely on the "enthusiast press" and thus have more to go on):
Zelda comes out in the first half of the year, at its assigned time with no more delays. Runs more choppily than you would expect from a high profile Nintendo title. Is not as great or groundbreaking as its predecessor, bringing a return to the Zelda cycle.
The Mario movie comes out and does well, but is not a great film OR the biggest animated film of all time (does Puss numbers at best.) It gets a NSMB released in the same timeframe, possibly as a direct tie-in.
Since the war isn't over we continue to not get the AW remake.
Sony gets Spiderman 2 in its assigned spot, no more delays. Oh, I guess they get Horizon DLC too. Horray...
Microsoft gets Starfield, Red Fall (delayed til Q3) and Compulsion Games' new project, and in that order.
Activision merger is completed, despite the legal issues. If it cannot be consumed in whole, the company is split apart with Microsoft taking over Blizzard and the mobile studios.
Diablo is trash, consooomers lap it up and then quickly spit it out, Blizz gets all their money anyway.
No CoD this year, or, more accurately, its all DLC.
FIFA gets a new name (this is already announced and not up for debate.)
The bomb of the year ends up being Ubisoft's Avatar game which, much like the film, has a huge budget but no player interest.
The bomb of the year ends up being Ubisoft's Skull and Bones which has spent a decade in development with nothing good to show for it.
The bomb of the year ends up being Ubisoft's Prince of Persia remake, which can't possibly have unfucked itself and has tons of bad publicity surrounding it. Launches at way too high a price and still looks like a PS2 game, just with more bugs and glitches than before.
The bomb of the year ends up being Ubisoft's multiple Assassin's Creed titles, because Ubi just really, really wants to kill that golden goose with the "new AC" sequel, and the "old AC reboot" and the "hub game" all launching in the same year.
The bomb of the year ends up being Ubisoft stock, yet shockingly Yves and friends still manage to hold onto the company.
DQ and FF both come out on time and on budget, shocking the whole gaming world as the industry's most poorly run major player puts out a pair of fucking aces. Financially, anyway. DQ proves divisive with the fanbase, older fans love it but JP kids not so much. These profits disappear down a blackhole marked "blockchain".
Konami announces RE4 getting a remake-it turns out to just be a remaster.
WB Games releases a lot of stuff and it all sucks, except for maybe Harry Potter. Studios totally get closed over this.
Embracer announces, across multiple publishing groups, Borderlands 3, Timesplitters 3, Kingdom Come 2, a Darksiders spinoff and new IP games from Appeal Studios, Ashborne Games and Nine Rocks Games. No, none of them come out this year.
Speaking of TBA AAA games, Lightspeed Studio (owned by Tencent) has something cooking and we should see it soon.
Black Myth Wukong gets a delay to 2024.
