今年电子游戏行业开局缓慢，原因是疫情放缓以及《Elden Ring》等备受期待的游戏，但它以一波似乎可能持续到明年的大型游戏发布浪潮结束。
让我们来看看2023年游戏公司将会发生什么，包括总部位于太平洋西北地区的巨头，如微软、亚马逊、Valve、任天堂和现在索尼旗下的Bungie。
一、微软是否能取代索尼成为全球第二大电子游戏发行商？
进入2023年，微软面临的最大问题是，美国联邦贸易委员会(Federal Trade Commission)能否成功阻止其收购动视暴雪(Activision Blizzard)。如果收购成功，微软将取代索尼，成为全球第二大电子游戏发行商，仅次于多元化经营的腾讯。
Xbox游戏工作室随后将在一个屋顶下拥有大量令人眼花缭乱的游戏特许经营，《使命召唤》、《魔兽争霸》和《暗黑破坏神》加入了已经包括《光晕》、《我的世界》、《毁灭战士》、《辐射》、《帝国时代》、《盗贼之海》、《战争机器》和《疯狂世界》的团队。只有少数电子游戏发行商拥有如此庞大的名单，这通常是因为他们在过去30至40年里一直在从零开始创建这个名单。
更重要的是，微软的文件显示，它打算利用动视暴雪(Activision Blizzard)的子公司King，为Xbox在利润丰厚的手机游戏行业建立一个滩头阵地。King是《糖果粉碎传奇》(Candy Crush)和《泡泡女巫》(Bubble Witch)等手机游戏的开发商。
如果美国联邦贸易委员会成功阻止了这次收购，这将对微软的扩张计划造成打击，同时也将使Xbox失去对动视暴雪进行急需的拆卸和重建的机会。在某种程度上，有关游戏主机市场的任何其他消息都必须等到这次收购解决后才会发生。
在非收购新闻中，Xbox系列X|S在今年的游戏大奖颁奖典礼上没有出现，这表明微软没有什么我们不知道的事情要宣布。不过，展望明年，该系统将在2023年开始发布三款大型第一方游戏，所有这些游戏都将以新的更高的价格发布。
《Redfall》是由《耻辱》开发商Arkane Studios开发的一款吸血鬼狩猎动作游戏，将于今年上半年在Xbox/Windows平台上独家发售。对于赛车迷来说，由华盛顿州雷德蒙德创建的《极限竞速》(Forza Motorsport)系列的第八部新作品。总部位于美国的Turn 10工作室，将于2023年第三季度的某个时候推出。
关于2023年令人难以置信的激动人心的一年，我们有很多计划要展示和分享。欣赏的人渴望学习和看到更多。时机总是关键，但别担心，你不必等待太久，我们的下一个。
然而，这两款游戏都远远落后于《Starfield》。Bethesda Game Studios习惯于创造能够定义文化对话的rpg，就像2012年的《天际》在过去10年里让我们所有人都开着“箭射中膝盖”的玩笑。现在Bethesda正带着Starfield进军外太空，这是该公司几十年来的首个全新知识产权。
当然，这是贝塞斯达游戏工作室发布的，所以在发布时可能会有一些搞笑的漏洞，《辐射76》已经降低了一些观众对工作室的信心。这并不一定是一个扣篮，但如果Starfield能够重新获得《天际》的魔力，它将成为Xbox Game Pass和整个Xbox平台的潜在“杀手级应用”。
12月13日，高级制作人托德·考曼斯在推特上发布了一条很快被删除的推文，引发了一个有趣的谣言:“Xbox工作室”显然正在筹备中。这可能意味着Xbox将控制自己的游戏演示，就像任天堂所做的预先录制的“指导”一样，而微软计划像索尼一样转向内部跨媒体制作。
二、任天堂是否将与电竞场景保持一定距离？
关于任天堂2023年的奇怪之处在于，其日程安排中最大的两项活动实际上并不是电子游戏。《超级马里奥兄弟》电影将于4月7日上映，由克里斯·帕拉特(银河护卫队)为马里奥配音(略有争议)，好莱坞环球影城的超级任天堂世界主题公园将于2月17日开放。
另一方面，下一款《塞尔达传说》即将推出。《王国之泪》是2018年畅销游戏《荒野之息》的续集，计划于5月12日作为任天堂Switch的独家游戏发布。传统上，任天堂的整个财政年度都是围绕第一方发布的大型游戏来安排的，没有比这更大的了。
在撰写本文时，任天堂所有的第一方彩蛋似乎都在这个特定的篮子里，除了1月20日的最新《火焰之纹章》游戏《Engage》之外，没有其他主要的发行计划。这是自2019年《三宅》以来的第一款主线《火焰之纹章》游戏，标志着该系列传统战略/战术玩法的回归。
然而，任天堂确实在2023年挽回了一些用户的好感。《精灵宝可梦》系列的最新作品，switch独家出品的《Scarlet and Violet》，在发布时就因为糟糕的表现而受到了批评，评论家和玩家提到了崩溃、延迟和低帧率的问题。
这对任何公司来说都是一个坏信号，但对于任天堂的旗舰产品来说尤其奇怪，因为这款产品在发布前往往会进行测试。
任天堂本月还因突然关闭独立运营的《大乱斗世界巡回赛》(Smash World Tour)而上了几大头条，这是一项围绕任天堂《大乱斗兄弟》(Smash Bros.)游戏开展的电子竞技赛事。
任天堂此前在2021年11月宣布，将首次与底特律品牌熊猫环球合作，正式支持《Smash》的电子竞技场景。《Smash World Tour》也曾进行过类似的授权谈判，但谈判突然中断到11月30日，导致巡回赛取消了即将到来的计划。
这导致了熊猫环球的一系列人事变动，该公司在12月初更换了首席执行官，并失去了许多赞助球员。言外之意是，熊猫在任天堂背后牵线，让一项竞争对手的比赛因授权而取消，尽管任天堂和熊猫都否认了这些指控。与此同时，任天堂似乎又回到了2021年前的现状，与电竞场景保持一定距离。
三、亚马逊是否还将继续关注其基于云的游戏服务？
去年，亚马逊游戏(Amazon Games)克服了数年的错误开始和取消项目，最终凭借其MMORPG《新世界》(New World)的首次亮相获得成功。虽然新世界尚未接近2021年9月推出窗口的高度，但它似乎已经找到了足够稳定的观众来继续。
今年，亚马逊的许多其他原创项目仍在开发和保密中，比如2021年亚马逊在蒙特利尔组建的彩虹六号资深团队，亚马逊通过发行其他公司的游戏取得了惊人的成功。
其中包括Smilegate RPG的《失落的方舟》，这是一款免费动作RPG游戏，在2月11日发布后在Steam上创造了历史记录。在撰写本文时，《失落的方舟》仍然是Steam上第二大玩家游戏，根据SteamDB的数据，每日并发玩家高峰超过33万。
《失落的方舟》的成功似乎鼓舞了亚马逊，此后它又宣布了两个更引人注目的项目：万代南梦宫的《蓝色协议》和下一个未命名的《古墓丽影》系列。
《失落的方舟》仍然是亚马逊游戏王冠上的一颗宝石，也是亚马逊如何利用其各种平台的一个例子。根据StreamElements及其分析合作伙伴Rainmaker的最新流状态报告。《失落的方舟》是今年在亚马逊旗下直播平台Twitch上首次亮相的游戏。它甚至以7200万小时的观看时间险胜《Elden Ring》（7100万小时)。
虽然这似乎违反直觉，但Twitch是电子游戏销售的重要推动力。例如，社交推理游戏《在我们中间》(最近在《玻璃洋葱》中看到)在最初发布两年后就大受欢迎，几位知名主播出人意料地让它走红。在《失落的方舟》中，亚马逊利用了Twitch（注释/解读：通过观看流媒体可以解锁游戏内的独家掉落物品)和Amazon Prime Gaming(注释/解读：让游戏走得更远、更快)。
我们可能会在2023年开始听到亚马逊的一些原创内部制作，来自Disruptive和Glowmade等工作室。然而，我们很可能不会这么做，因为亚马逊一直都很谨慎地表示自己想要制作“AAA”游戏。这是一个非正式的行业术语，通常指制作人员多，预算高，这反过来意味着他们往往需要一段时间来制作。亚马逊的许多大型内部游戏要到2024年或更晚的时候才能进行封闭测试。
到目前为止，亚马逊在其当前项目中展示的是，它有很多方法来温和地鼓励玩家选择它的游戏。我们看到亚马逊正倾向于一些独特的协同选项，这值得关注，因为它开始发布即将推出的游戏。
亚马逊还继续关注其基于云的游戏服务Luna，该服务于3月份结束了测试。虽然亚马逊似乎没有透露任何Luna在2022年的销售数据，但由于其竞争对手谷歌Stadia即将关闭，它在2023年的位置略有改善。
四、该公司是否将通过发布独立版本的Index头显，进一步进军VR硬件市场是？
不久前，我还在写关于各种挑战者的故事，这些挑战者正在与Valve竞争。它的数字商店Steam仍然是世界上最大的PC游戏市场，但持续存在的管理和收益分成问题已经导致Epic、微软、育碧和艺电等大公司开放了自己的独家市场应用或试图吸引游戏开发者使用他们的服务。
正如PC Gamer最近观察到的那样，在2022年，这一切似乎都悄然崩溃了。虽然这些额外的店面中有许多仍在运营，但这些公司中有许多已经悄悄地将他们的游戏带回了Steam。你可以再次在Steam上购买整个《刺客信条》系列或最后三款《Madden》游戏的数字副本，这些游戏之前都是无法购买的，目的是让你去原版发行商的商店。
Valve在2018年感觉自己的市场地位很脆弱，就像Steam一样，但在过去几年里它已经开始行动起来。虽然你仍然可以批评Steam的一些事情，但定期的技术更新已经解决了一些问题，比如它的发现算法或自定义过滤器。
该公司还在2022年初将其便携式游戏PC Steam Deck推向市场，这似乎打破了它在发布硬件方面的黑猫纪录。Deck有一些粗糙的地方，但事实证明，它在修补者中很受欢迎，是新PC游戏玩家的入门级产品。市场上还有其他便携式游戏pc，其中许多功能更强大或更符合人体工程学，但它们的价格通常至少是Steam Deck最便宜版本的两倍。
至于Valve的下一步计划，该公司一如既往地满足于做自己的事情。有传言称，该公司将通过发布独立版本的Index头显，进一步进军VR硬件市场，但到目前为止，这只是谣言。
在撰写本文时，Valve已经完全确认了2023年的一切，尽管有传言，但它仍然在为其MOBA Dota 2拍摄True Sight纪录片系列。
五、Bungie明年是否将打算把精力更多的放在开放式、频繁更新的在线多人游戏上？
2022年对Bungie来说是一次漫长而奇怪的旅行。它从2021年一个压倒性的独立成功故事，到在华盛顿州贝尔维尤的新总部破土动工。并宣布在阿姆斯特丹设立新的国际办公室，于7月15日成为PlayStation工作室网络的最新成员。
《光晕》系列的最初创造者Bungie仍然主要致力于其在线第一人称射击游戏《命运2》，该游戏将于2月28日发布其最新扩展内容《Lightfall》。虽然被索尼收购，但Bungie官方表示《命运2》仍将是跨平台游戏。
早在今年5月，索尼就曾向投资者宣布，Bungie在《命运2》上的经验将成为他们未来PlayStation战略的重要组成部分，因为该公司打算将更多的第一方开发精力放在开放式、频繁更新的在线多人游戏上。
与此同时，Bungie在5月份告诉GeekWire，除了成为“数字优先的工作场所”之外，它还打算继续扩大在西雅图地区的办公室足迹。截至9月8日，Bungie接受了来自美国21个州的远程员工申请。
六、是否很多人选择Playdate的真正原因是因为它的自制场景？
Playdate是一款手持2位视频游戏系统，由俄勒冈州波特兰的软件发行商Panic (Untitled Goose game)开发，它的发布经历了很长的一段路。
Playdate最初于2019年宣布，当时出现在当年西雅图的Penny Arcade博览会上，随后遇到了一系列精心设计的障碍。Panic计划在2020年发布该系统，但工厂关闭和硬件短缺进一步打乱了生产计划。
《Playdate》终于在4月份吸引了第一波买家，从那时起，《Panic》就开始慢慢生产更多的单元。每个Playdate都有一个无线传输的“季节”内容，用户每月可以收到两款游戏；我一直很喜欢Crooked Park的《恶魔之旅》(Demon Quest ‘ 85)，讲的是一个书呆子试图通过玩弄黑魔法在学校里变得受欢迎。
然而，选择Playdate的真正原因可以说是它的自制场景。Panic将每个单元都设置为开发工具包；在Itch.io等平台上，该系统还有数十款额外的游戏可用。对于太平洋西北公司制造的视频游戏机来说，这是一个合适的地方，它最好的地方是它允许你制作什么。
七、2023年大型游戏的发布时间表
2020年因新冠疫情、2021年和2022年因行政僵局而取消的电子娱乐博览会(E3)将在2023年重新举行。2023年E3在洛杉矶由活动组织者ReedPop举办，该组织还经营着翡翠城动漫展和PAX等西雅图地区的展览。这意味着E3很可能即将完成它从一个专注于行业的贸易展到一个通用的书呆子大会的渐进演变。所有人都在猜测是否会有真正的消息传出，尽管传统上，许多游戏发行商都会在E3上发布他们的第三/第四季度游戏。
我们所知道的2023年的整体发布时间表包括以下大型游戏：
1、漫威的《蜘蛛侠2》是2018年开放世界超级英雄模拟器的续集，将于2023年秋季作为PlayStation 5独家游戏推出。该片讲述了彼得·帕克和迈尔斯·莫拉莱斯联手对抗蜘蛛侠经典反派毒液的故事。
2、2008年的生存恐怖游戏《死亡空间》的全高清重制版将于明年1月面世。这是一个黑暗科幻/恐怖的体验，发生在一艘废弃的宇宙飞船上，在那里许多船员都变成了敌对的“necromorphs”。
3、日本开发商卡普空继续重制早期的生化危机游戏，将于3月推出生化危机4。初代RE4是有史以来最具影响力的动作游戏之一，重制版似乎保留了故事的大致轮廓，同时将画面和玩法更新到现代标准。
4、卡普空还将在6月发布最新的《街头霸王》游戏。《街头霸王6》为经典格斗游戏提供了一个新的主角和背景，以及一个世界巡回赛模式，让你可以创建、定制和训练自己的战斗机。
5、虽然因项目管理不善而备受抨击，但暴雪的地下城爬行游戏《暗黑破坏神4》至少计划在6月发布。这可以被视为经典PC系列的一次成败攸关的发布，在臭名昭著的2022年手游《暗黑破坏神:不朽》之后，该系列遭受了一些重大公关打击。
6、Square Enix的冒险游戏《Forspoken》将于1月23日登陆PS5和PC平台。弗雷(埃利亚·巴林斯卡，奈飞的《生化危机》)从现代纽约被送到了一个叫做阿西亚的幻想世界，在那里她被迫掌握魔法以生存并返回地球。
7、2010年的《心灵杀手》是一款超现实的动作冒险游戏，深受史蒂芬·金和《双峰》的影响，故事发生在华盛顿州的一个虚构小镇上。芬兰开发商Remedy (Control)从原始发行商微软手中买回了《心灵杀手2》的特许经营权，计划在2023年推出续集《心灵杀手2》。据说这款新游戏是一款彻头彻尾的生存恐怖游戏，这意味着它将专注于氛围、叙事以及对极其有限资源的谨慎使用。
8、经过多次推迟，Rocksteady和WB Games的《自杀小队:杀死正义联盟》终于将于2023年发行。作为DC漫画反英雄团队的四名成员，你们被派去保护大都会免受外星人入侵，却发现正义联盟的大部分成员都被超人的克星Brainiac洗脑了。从技术上讲，《杀死正义联盟》与最畅销的《蝙蝠侠》系列游戏《阿卡姆》设定在同一个宇宙，出自同一家工作室。
原文：
This year started slow in the video game industry.
Due to a combination of pandemic slowdowns and highly-anticipated titles such as Elden Ring.
But it ended with a tidal wave of big releases that seems likely to continue into next year.
Here’s a look at what’s coming in 2023 for gaming companies.
Including giants based in the Pacific Northwest such as Microsoft, Amazon, Valve, Nintendo, and the now Sony-owned Bungie.
一、Microsoft
The big question Microsoft faces, is whether or not the FTC will successfully block its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
If it goes through, Microsoft will become the No. 2 biggest video game publisher in the world.
Behind the wildly diversified Tencent.
Xbox Game Studios would subsequently end up with a dizzying number of tentpole gaming franchises under one roof,.
With Call of Duty, Warcraft, and Diablo joining a group that already.
Includes Halo, Minecraft, Doom, Fallout, Age of Empires, Sea of Thieves, Gears of War, and Psychonauts.
Only a handful of other video game publishers have a roster even close to that stacked, and it’s usually .
Because they’ve been building that roster from scratch for the last 30 to 40 years.
More importantly, Microsoft filings indicate that it intends to use Activision Blizzard’s subsidiary King,.
Makers of phone-game franchises like Candy Crush and Bubble Witch, to create a beachhead for Xbox.
If the FTC successfully prevents the acquisition,.
It would be a blow to Microsoft’s plans for expansion, as well as removing the chance that Xbox could.
To some extent,
Any other news about the gaming console market will have to wait to happen until this acquisition is resolved.
In non-acquisition news, the Xbox Series X|S was a peculiar no-show at this year’s Game Awards ceremony.
Which suggests there wasn’t much Microsoft had to announce that we didn’t already know.
Looking forward to next year.
Though, the system is on deck to start 2023 with the release of three big 1st-party games.
All of which will ship at a new, higher price point.
Redfall, a cooperative vampire-hunting action game by Dishonored developer Arkane Studios.
It will launch in the first half of the year as an Xbox/Windows exclusive.
For racing fans, the new, unnumbered eighth entry in the Forza Motorsport series,.
It created by Redmond, Wash.-based Turn 10 Studios, is coming at some point in Q3 2023.
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— Aaron Greenberg December 9, 2022
Both of those games take a distant back seat behind Starfield, however.
Bethesda Game Studios has a habit of creating RPGs that define the cultural conversation for a while.
like how 2012’s Skyrim got us all making “arrow to the knee” jokes for the last decade.
Now Bethesda’s moving into deep space with Starfield, its first brand-new intellectual property in decades.
Granted, this is a Bethesda Game Studios release.
So it’s likely to have a few hilarious bugs at launch.
And Fallout 76 has lowered some of the audience’s faith in the studio.
This isn’t necessarily a slam dunk, but if Starfield can recapture even some of the Skyrim magic.
It’s a potential “killer app” for the Xbox Game Pass and the Xbox platform as a whole.
Xbox is also closing out 2022 with an interesting rumor, which was ignited by a quickly-deleted Dec. 13 tweet by senior producer Todd Kaumans: an “Xbox Studios” is apparently in the works.
This could mean anything from Xbox taking control of its own game presentations.
Much like Nintendo does with its pre-recorded “Directs,” to Microsoft planning to move into in-house cross-media production like Sony.
二、Nintendo
The weird part about Nintendo’s 2023 is that two of the biggest events on its schedule aren’t actually video games.
April 7 sees the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, featuring Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) as the (mildly controversial) voice of Mario.
And Universal Studios Hollywood will open its Super Nintendo World theme park on Feb. 17.
On the other hand, the next Legend of Zelda game is coming up fast.
Tears of the Kingdom, the follow-up to the best-selling 2018 game Breath of the Wild,
It is scheduled to drop May 12 as an exclusive for the Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo has traditionally organized its entire fiscal year around its big first-party releases.
And they don’t come much bigger than this.
At time of writing, all of Nintendo’s first-party eggs appear to be in that particular basket.
With no other major releases on the schedule aside from the latest Fire Emblem game, Engage, on Jan. 20.
This is the first mainline Fire Emblem game since 2019’s Three Houses,.
And marks a return to the series’s traditional strategy/tactics gameplay.
Nintendo does have some audience goodwill to claw back in 2023, however.
The latest entry in the Pokemon series, the Switch-exclusive Scarlet and Violet.
Whichngot raked over the coals at launch for inordinately poor performance,.
With critics and players citing issues with crashes, lag, and low frame rates.
This would be a bad sign for any company, but is particularly weird from a flagship Nintendo product.
Which tend to be tested to within an inch of their lives before release.
Nintendo also made a few headlines this month over the sudden shutdown of the independently-operated Smash World Tour.
It’s an esports tournament built around Nintendo’s Smash Bros. games.
Nintendo had previously announced in November 2021 that for the first time.
It would officially support Smash‘s esports scene via a partnership with the Detroit-based brand Panda Global.
A similar licensing negotiation was being conducted with Smash World Tour, but it abruptly fell through Nov. 30, resulting in the cancellation of the Tour’s upcoming plans.
This led to a series of shakeups at Panda Global.
Which replaced its CEO and lost many of its sponsored players in early December.
The implication was that Panda had pulled strings at Nintendo to get a rival tournament canceled due to licensing.
Although Nintendo and Panda both deny those allegations.
In the meantime, Nintendo has seemingly returned to the pre-2021 status quo of keeping its esports scenes at arm’s length.
三、Amazon
Last year, Amazon Games famously overcame years of false starts.
And Amazon Games canceled projects to finally score a success with the debut of its MMORPG New World.
While New World has yet to get anywhere near the heights of its September 2021 launch window.
It seems to have found a stable enough audience to continue.
This year, with many of its other original projects still in development and under wrap.
Such as the team of Rainbow Six veterans that Amazon assembled in Montreal in 2021.
Amazon has found a surprising amount of success by publishing other companies’ games.
This includes Smilegate RPG’s Lost Ark, a free-to-play action-RPG that set all-time records on Steam following its Feb. 11 release.
At time of writing, Lost Ark is still the No. 2 most-played game on Steam.
It with a daily peak of over 330,000 concurrent players as per SteamDB.
The success of Lost Ark seems to have encouraged Amazon.
And it’s since announced two more high-profile projects as a publisher.
Bandai Namco’s Blue Protocol and the next, unnamed entry in the Tomb Raider series.
Lost Ark is still the jewel in Amazon Games’s crown.
As well as an example of how Amazon can leverage its various platforms.
According to the latest State of the Stream report, by StreamElements and its analytics partner Rainmaker.gg.
Lost Ark was the game debut of the year on the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch.
It even managed to narrowly beat out Elden Ring with 72 million hours watched, vs. Elden Ring‘s 71 million.
While it may seem counterintuitive, Twitch is a significant driver of video game sales.
For example, the social-deduction game Among Us famously became a big hit two years after its original release .
When several high-profile streamers unexpectedly made it go viral.
With Lost Ark, Amazon leveraged both Twitch, with exclusive drops in-game that were unlocked by watching streams.
And Amazon Prime Gaming to take the game further and faster.
We might start hearing about some of Amazon’s original in-house productions over the course of 2023.
Which from studios like Disruptive and Glowmade.
It’s just as likely that we won’t.
However, as Amazon has always been careful to note that it wants to make “AAA” games.
This is an informal industry term that’s typically meant to indicate a production with a big crew and high budget.
Which in turn means they tend to take a while to make.
Many of Amazon’s big in-house games won’t be available.
It for so much as a closed beta test until 2024 or later.
What Amazon has exhibited so far with its current projects is.
That it’s got a lot of ways to gently encourage players to pick its games up.
We’re seeing Amazon lean into some of its unique synergy options.
And that’s going to be worth paying attention to as it starts to unveil its upcoming games.
Amazon has also continued to devote attention to its cloud-based gaming service, Luna, which left beta in March.
While Amazon does not appear to have revealed any of Luna’s sales numbers for 2022.
it’s going into 2023 at a slightly improved position due to the imminent shutdown of its competitor Google Stadia.
四、Valve
It wasn’t that long ago that I was writing stories about the various challengers.
That were stepping up to compete with Valve.
Its digital storefront Steam is still the largest market in the world for PC gaming.
But ongoing issues with curation and revenue sharing had led to big companies like Epic, Microsoft, Ubisoft, and Electronic Arts.
They opening their own exclusive marketplace apps or trying to attract game developers to their services.
In 2022, that seems to have all quietly fallen apart, as recently observed by PC Gamer.
While many of those additional storefronts are still in operation.
Many of those same companies have quietly snuck their games back onto Steam.
You can once again buy digital copies of the entire Assassin’s Creed series.
Or you can once again the last three Madden games on Steam.
When they were previously made unavailable in an attempt to drive you to their original publishers’ storefronts.
Valve in 2018 felt like it had a tenuous hold on its market position, as well as Steam in general.
But it’s gotten its act together over the course of the last few years.
While you can still criticize a number of things about Steam.
It regular tech updates have cleaned up issues like its busted discovery algorithms or its custom filters.
The company also brought its portable gaming PC, the Steam Deck, to market in early 2022.
Which seems to have broken its black-cat streak when it comes to releasing hardware.
The Deck has a few rough edges.
But has proven popular among tinkerers and as an entry-level purchase for new PC gamers.
There are other portable gaming PCs on the market.
Many of which are more powerful or ergonomic.
But they’re also usually at least twice as expensive as the cheapest version of the Steam Deck.
As for what’s next for Valve, the company is, as ever, content to do its own thing.
Rumors persist that it’ll move further into the VR hardware market by releasing a standalone version of its Index headset.
But as of now, they’re just that: rumors.
All that Valve has confirmed outright for 2023.
At time of writing, that, despite rumors.
It’s still on board for the True Sight documentary series for its MOBA Dota 2.
五、Bungie
2022 was a long, strange trip for Bungie.
It went from an overwhelming indie success story in 2021, breaking ground on a new headquarters in Bellevue, Wash.
And announcing a new international office in Amsterdam.
It to becoming the newest member of the PlayStation studio network as of July 15.
Bungie, the original creator of the Halo franchise, is still primarily devoted to its online first-person shooter Destiny 2.
Which will release its latest expansion, Lightfall, on Feb. 28.
Despite its acquisition by Sony, Bungie has officially stated that Destiny 2 will remain cross-platform.
Back in May, Sony announced as part of a presentation to investors that Bungie’s experience with Destiny 2.
It would make it a crucial part of their strategy with PlayStation going forward.
As the company intends to focus more of its first-party development efforts on open-ended, frequently-updated online multiplayer games.
In the meantime, Bungie told GeekWire in May.
That it intends to continue growing its office footprint in the Seattle area, in addition to becoming a “digital-first workplace.”
As of Sep. 8, Bungie accepted applications for remote workers from 21 U.S. states.
六、Panic
The Playdate, a handheld 2-bit video game system by Portland, Ore.-based software publisher Panic (Untitled Goose Game).
It has had a long road to release.
Originally announced in 2019, when appeared at that year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle.
The Playdate proceeded to run into an elaborate series of roadblocks.
Panic planned to release the system in 2020, but factory shutdowns and hardware shortages further screwed up the production schedule.
The Playdate finally managed to reach the first wave of buyers in April.
And since then, Panic has slowly been able to produce more units.
Each Playdate comes with a wirelessly-delivered “season” of content.
Where users receive two games a month.
I’ve been enjoying Crooked Park’s Demon Quest ’85.
Which about a nerd who tries to become popular at school by messing with dark magic.
The real reason to pick up a Playdate, however, has arguably turned out to be its homebrew scene.
Panic set up each unit so that it doubles as a development kit.
There are dozens of extra games available for the system on platforms like Itch.io.
It’s an appropriate place for a Pacific Northwest-made video game console to end up.
Where the best thing about it is what it allows you to make.
七、Outside of the Pacific Northwest
2023 will see the return of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
Which was canceled due to COVID in 2020, and then due to administrative gridlock in 2021 and 2022.
E3 2023 is being held in Los Angeles by the events organizer ReedPop.
Which also runs Seattle-area shows like Emerald City Comic Con and PAX.
That means it’s likely E3 is about to finish its gradual.
And E3 is the years-long evolution from an industry-focused trade show to a general-purpose nerd convention.
It’s anyone’s guess whether any actual news will break there or not.
Although traditionally, many game publishers reveal their Q3/Q4 releases at E3.
What we do know about 2023’s overall release schedule includes the following big games:
1.Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, a sequel to 2018’s open-world superhero simulator, comes out in fall 2023 as a PlayStation 5 exclusive.
It features a team-up between Peter Parker and Miles Morales.
Who are put up against a new version of Spidey’s classic villain Venom.
2.A full HD remake of the 2008 survival horror game Dead Space arrives in January.
It’s a dark science fiction/horror experience set aboard a derelict spaceship.
Where many of the crew have transformed into hostile “necromorphs.”
3.The Japanese developer Capcom continues.
Its streak of remaking the earlier Resident Evil games with Resident Evil 4, out in March.
The original RE4 is one of the most influential action games of all time.
And the remake appears to preserve the broad strokes of its story.
While updating the graphics and gameplay to modern standards.
4.Capcom will also release the latest Street Fighter game in June.
Street Fighter 6 features a new protagonist.
And it setting for the classic fighting game, along with a World Tour mode.
That lets you create, customize, and train your own fighter.
5.While it’s come under fire for project mismanagement, Blizzard’s dungeon crawler Diablo IV is at least scheduled for June.
This can be seen as a make-or-break release for the classic PC franchise.
Which took some big PR hits after the notoriously grindy 2022 mobile game Diablo Immortal.
6.Square Enix’s adventure game Forspoken comes out for PS5 and PC on Jan. 23.
Frey (Elia Balinska, Netflix’s Resident Evil) is transported from modern New York to a fantasy world called Athia.
Where she’s forced to master magic in order to survive and return to Earth.
2010’s Alan Wake was a surreal action-adventure game, heavily influenced by Stephen King and “Twin Peaks,”
That was set in a fictional town in Washington state.
After buying the rights to the franchise back from original publisher Microsoft.
Which finnish developers Remedy (Control) plan to release a sequel, Alan Wake 2, in 2023.
The new game is said to be a full-on survival horror title.
Which traditionally means it focuses on atmosphere, narrative, and the careful use of extremely limited resources.
After multiple delays, Rocksteady and WB Games’ Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will finally release in 2023.
As four members of the titular team of DC Comics antiheroes.
You’ve been sent to protect Metropolis from an alien invasion.
Only to discover that most of the Justice League has been brainwashed by Superman’s nemesis Brainiac.
Technically, Kill the Justice League is set in the same universe.
And made in the same studio, as the best-selling Arkham series of Batman games.
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