Alan Campbell writes about video games for the economist. 2022 was an atypical year for games mainly because so many of the blockbuster so called AAA games that we expected were delayed almost certainly because of the pandemic. The biggest two AAA games of the year were first of all Elgin Ring, a follow up to the Dark Souls series which are often set in like claustrophobic dungeon type situations but this time you could move around in an open country. And finally Andy what was your favourite book this year? Well John one of my favourite books of the year is a novel called The Trees by Percival Everett. It's a funny and satirical and deadly series book about racism and the