2022 in video gaming

## Notable Events

### Russo-Ukrainian war

2022 was marked in large part by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which began on February 24 that year. Several video game developers and publishers with ties to Eastern Europe provided support for Ukrainian aid:

* Polish game developer 11 bit studios pledged to donate all profits earned over the next seven days from *This War of Mine* (2014) and its downloadable content to the Ukrainian Red Cross.
* Polish game developer and publisher CD Projekt donated 1 million zloty (approximately €182,000) to the Polish Humanitarian Action group
* Swedish game company Embracer Group donated $1 million to various charities, including the Red Cross and ACT Alliance
* Czech video game developer SCS Software donated over €20,000 to "multiple charities", and is working on new DLC for *American Truck Simulator* and *Euro Truck Simulator 2* to raise funds for Ukrainian charities.
* The Pokemon Company and Niantic announced they would donate $200K each, alongside an addition $75K raised by Niantic employees, to organizations such as GlobalGiving to provide humanitarian relief in Ukraine. Niantic also suspended the availability of *Pokémon GO*, *Pikmin Bloom*, and *Ingress* in both Russia and Belarus.

Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Activision Blizzard, among others, halted sales of physical and digital products in Russia during the conflict:

* EA announced on March 2 that it had started the process of removing the Russian national football team and Russian football clubs from its *FIFA* series as well as removing the Belarusian and Russian national teams and their club teams from *NHL 22*.
* Nintendo announced on March 9 that *Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp*, a tactical war game with a faction based on Soviet-era Russia, would be delayed indefinitely due to "recent world events".

Two game bundles offered by itch.io and Humble Bundle raised over $6 million and $20 million for Ukraine aid support, respectively. Epic Games made all proceeds from Fortnite during the last two weeks of March 2022 go to charitable aid for Ukraine, and raised over $144 million.

## Notable video games

Notable video games so far released in 2022 include:

* *Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel*, a tournament-style implementation of the popular TCG with single-player and multi-player support.
* Re-releases of *Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX*, *Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue* and *Kingdom Hearts III* for the Nintendo Switch.
* Upgraded version of *Cyberpunk 2077* for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X, with a limited patch available for previous-gen console systems.
* *Horizon Forbidden West*, the hotly-anticipated sequel to *Horizon Zero Dawn*, set in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
* *Elden Ring*, a soulslike video game, was also released to critical acclaim in February.
* *Gran Turismo 7* was released on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in March as the latest main series *Gran Turismo* title since *Gran Turismo Sport* on the PlayStation 4. The game touts itself as both the ultimate racing simulator, as well as a guide to motor sports history in general to players new or unfamiliar with motor sporting history.