2023 in video games

In the video game industry, 2023 saw significant changes within larger publishers and developers. Microsoft, after having satisfied worldwide regulatory bodies, completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, making them the third largest game publisher in the world. Embracer Group, which had been in an acquisition spree over the previous few years, had an estimated $2 billion deal fall through, causing many of the studios under Embracer to either lay off staff or close entirely. Similar layoffs were seen at Unity, Amazon, ByteDance, Epic Games, Bungie, and Ubisoft, leading to over 9,000 jobs lost in the industry in 2023 and part of a larger trend of layoffs at technology companies in 2023.[1][2][3]

Financial performance

Best-selling premium games by region

The following titles were 2023's top ten best-selling premium games by region (excluding microtransactions and free-to-play titles) on PC and console platforms, for Japan, the United States, and Europe.

Rank Japan[4][5] United States[6] Europe[7]
1 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Hogwarts Legacy EA Sports FC 24
2 Super Mario Bros. Wonder Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Hogwarts Legacy
3 Pikmin 4 Madden NFL 24 FIFA 23
4 Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
5 Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom[a] Grand Theft Auto V
6 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Diablo IV Diablo IV
7 Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom[a]
8 Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince Mortal Kombat 1 Red Dead Redemption 2
9 Splatoon 3 Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Super Mario Bros. Wonder[a]
10 Super Mario RPG EA Sports FC 24 Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Top-rated games

Critically acclaimed titles

The number of highly praised video games released in 2023 was considered unusually high compared to most years, with 25 games having a 90 out of 100 or better aggregate score on Metacritic by October 2023; this made it the best year by number of acclaimed games, the largest since 2004.[8] This year was comparable to the slate of highly praised releases in 1992, 1997 and 2008.[9] The reasons for this include the fact that most of the top games were delayed or not even developed until after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, leading to greater quality in gaming overall, and that the ninth generation of consoles had become entrenched for developers.[8][10]

The following table lists the top-rated games released in 2023 based on Metacritic, which generally considers expansions as separate entities.

2023 releases scoring 90/100 or higher on Metacritic[11]
Title Developer(s) Publisher(s) Release Platform(s) Average score
Baldur's Gate 3 Larian Studios August 3, 2023 OSX, PS5, WIN, XSX/S 96
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo EPD Nintendo May 12, 2023 NS 96
Metroid Prime Remastered Retro Studios Nintendo February 8, 2023 NS 94
Resident Evil 4 Capcom March 24, 2023 iOS, iPadOS, OSX, PS4, PS5, WIN, XSX/S 93
Street Fighter 6 Capcom June 2, 2023 Arcade, PS4, PS5, WIN, XSX/S 92
Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo EPD Nintendo October 20, 2023 NS 92
Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Expansion Pass Wave 4 - Future Redeemed Monolith Soft Nintendo April 25, 2023 NS 92
Against the Storm Eremite Games Hooded Horse December 8, 2023 WIN 91
Dave the Diver Mintrocket June 28, 2023 OSX, NS, PS4, PS5, WIN 90
Jack Jeanne Broccoli Aksys Games June 15, 2023 DROID, iOS, NS 90
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Insomniac Games Sony Interactive Entertainment October 20, 2023 PS5 90
Slay the Princess Black Tabby Games October 23, 2023 LIN, OSX, NS, PS4, PS5, XBO, XSX/S 90
Videoverse Kinmoku August 7, 2023 LIN, OSX, WIN 90

Major awards

Baldur's Gate 3 was the first game to sweep the Game of the Year categories at the five major awards ceremonies: the Golden Joystick Awards, the Game Awards, the D.I.C.E. Awards, the Game Developers Choice Awards, and the BAFTA Games Awards.[12]

Category / Organization 41st Golden Joystick Awards
November 20, 2023 		The Game Awards 2023
December 7, 2023 		27th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards
February 15, 2024[13] 		24th Game Developers Choice Awards
March 20, 2024[14] 		20th British Academy Games Awards
April 11, 2024[15]
Game of the Year Baldur's Gate 3
Independent / Debut[i] Indie Sea of Stars Sea of Stars Cocoon Venba
Debut Cocoon
Mobile N/a Honkai: Star Rail What the Car? N/a
VR / AR Horizon Call of the Mountain Resident Evil Village Asgard's Wrath 2
Artistic Achievement[i] Animation Baldur's Gate 3 Alan Wake 2 Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Alan Wake 2 Hi-Fi Rush
Art Direction Alan Wake 2 Alan Wake 2
Audio[i] Music Final Fantasy XVI Final Fantasy XVI Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Hi-Fi Rush Baldur's Gate 3
Sound Design Hi-Fi Rush Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Alan Wake 2
Character or Performance[i] Leading Role Ben Starr as Clive Rosfield
Final Fantasy XVI		 Neil Newbon as Astarion
Baldur's Gate 3		 Miles Morales
Marvel's Spider-Man 2		 N/a Nadji Jeter as Miles Morales
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Supporting Role Neil Newbon as Astarion
Baldur's Gate 3		 Andrew Wincott as Raphael
Baldur's Gate 3
Game Direction
or Design[i]		 Game Design N/a Alan Wake 2 Baldur's Gate 3 Baldur's Gate 3 Dave the Diver
Game Direction Baldur's Gate 3
Narrative Baldur's Gate 3 Alan Wake 2 Baldur's Gate 3
Technical Achievement N/a Marvel's Spider-Man 2 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Multiplayer / Online Mortal Kombat 1 Baldur's Gate 3 Diablo IV N/a Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Action N/a Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Marvel's Spider-Man 2 N/a
Adventure N/a The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Family N/a Super Mario Bros. Wonder N/a Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Fighting N/a Street Fighter 6 N/a
Role-Playing N/a Baldur's Gate 3
Sports/Racing Sports N/a Forza Motorsport MLB The Show 23
Racing Forza Motorsport
Strategy/Simulation N/a Pikmin 4 Dune: Spice Wars
Social Impact N/a Tchia N/a Venba Tchia
Special Award N/a Hall of Fame Ambassador Award Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Special
Koji Kondo Fawzi Mesmar Yoko Shimomura SpecialEffect
  1. ^ a b c d e Some award presentations combine these categories.

Major events

Date Event Ref.
January 6 NetEase Games acquired SkyBox Labs. [16]
January 17 Unity Technologies laid off 284 employees. [17]
January 18 Google's cloud streaming service Stadia closed, with all hardware and software purchases being refunded. [18]
February 8 Nintendo Switch Online adds Game Boy & Game Boy Color titles to its library of emulated games. Game Boy Advance titles were also added to the service (exclusive to the Expansion Pack subscription). [19]
February 17 Super Nintendo World opened to the public in Universal Studios Hollywood in California. [20]
February 21–23 Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosted the 2023 D.I.C.E. Summit and the 26th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards at the Resorts World Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tim Schafer inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame. [21][22]
March 20–24 The Game Developers Conference returned to an all-physical format at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. [23]
March 22 Atari announced its intent to acquire Nightdive Studios for $10 million. [24]
March 27 Nintendo closed the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. [25]
March 29 Electronic Arts laid off about 800 staff. [26]
March 30 The Entertainment Software Association announced that E3 2023 was cancelled due to lack of major publisher attendance. [27]
April 3 Legendary Entertainment secured TV and film rights of Capcom's Street Fighter franchise. [28]
April 5 Savvy Games Group announced its intent to acquire Scopely for $4.9 billion. [29]
April 19 Epic Games acquired Brazil-based studio Aquiris. [30]
April 20 Focus Entertainment acquired publisher studio Dovetail Games. [31]
April 20 Sony Interactive Entertainment acquired Firewalk Studios under its PlayStation Studios label. [32]
May 3 Unity Technologies announced plans to cut 600 jobs. [33]
June 5 Apple announced the Apple Vision Pro, a mixed reality headset, set to release in early 2024. [34][35]
June 8–11 Summer Game Fest 2023 was held through a combination of various in-person and streamed video events from over forty publishing partners at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. [36]
June 14 Embracer Group began undergoing a large-scale restructuring program due to the failure of a planned US$2 billion deal, which would affect some of its studios and ongoing projects. [37]
June 25 The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performed a 10-year anniversary concert for The Game Awards, an end-of-the-year awards ceremony that has been running since 2014, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. [38]
July 24 Tencent announced its intent to acquire majority shares of Techland. [39]
August 10–12 Quakecon returned as a live in-person event in Grapevine, Texas, following three years of digital formats due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [40]
August 11–13 The 2023 Pokémon World Championships took place at the Pacifico Yokohama convention center in Yokohama, Japan. [41][42]
August 18 Sega Sammy Group completed the acquisition of Rovio Entertainment for US$775M. [43][44]
August 21 Nintendo announced that Charles Martinet would be stepping back from recording voices for Mario, Luigi, and other characters. [45]
August 23–27 The Gamescom convention took place at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. [46]
August 31 As part of its restructuring, Embracer Group shuttered Volition. [47]
September 1–4 Nintendo of America hosted Nintendo Live, an in-person event that was introduced in Japan back in 2017, in Seattle. [48]
September 7 The ESA announced that there would be no E3 in 2024. [49][50]
September 13 Unity Technologies announced a new retroactive licensing fee for the Unity game engine to start in 2024, generating backlash within the indie game community. The criticism led Unity to rework the fee structure to less-aggressive terms one week later. [51]
September 21–24 The Tokyo Game Show convention took place at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. [52]
September 27 Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, announced his intent to leave Sony by April 2024. [53]
September 28 Epic Games laid off about 16% of its workforce, approximately 850 employees, including divestment of Bandcamp and SuperAwesome. [54]
October 4 Nintendo announced that the online services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software will discontinue in early April 2024. [55]
October 13 The acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft was completed following approval from the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority. [56]
October 13 Kevin Afghani was announced to be replacing Charles Martinet as the voice of Mario and Luigi. [57]
October 30 Bungie laid off about 100 employees as part of cost-cutting measures due to lower player counts of Destiny 2. [58]
October 31 Atari announced its intent to acquire Digital Eclipse for $20 million. [59]
November 3–4 Blizzard Entertainment hosted BlizzCon, an in-person event, at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. [60]
November 7 Ubisoft laid off 124 employees worldwide, most from its Canadian studios. [61]
November 8 Blizzard Entertainment announced its intent to transition the Overwatch League into a more traditional esports structure. [62]
November 15 Series of layoffs were announced at Amazon Games, Digital Bros, Humble Games, and Kongregate. [63]
November 28 Unity Technologies announced another set of layoffs consisting of 3.8% or 265 employees as part of a company "reset" following its licensing changes in September 2023. [64]
December 7 The Game Awards 2023 was held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. [65]
December 11 Free Radical Design was shut down as part of the fallout from Embracer Group's failed $2 billion deal. [66]
December 11 Google was found to have maintained an illegal monopoly in the Android market by a jury trial in Epic Games v. Google. [67]
December 12 The ESA confirmed that they would no longer hold E3 trade shows for the foreseeable future. [68]
December 15 Activision Blizzard and the California Civil Rights Department agreed to a $54 million settlement in the lawsuit into sexual harassment at the company. [69]
December 19 Insomniac Games suffered a data breach and had its ten-year plans released, as well as personnel information and several historical details around the company and Sony Interactive Entertainment, after failing to pay the hacking group to prevent its release. [70][71]
December 29 As part of Microsoft's acquisition, Bobby Kotick retired from Activision Blizzard after being its CEO for 32 years. [72]

Notable deaths

Hardware releases

Date Console Manufacturer Ref.
January 26 Razer Edge Razer Inc. [94]
February HTC Vive XR Elite HTC [95]
February 22 PlayStation VR2 Sony [96][97]
June 13 Asus ROG Ally Asus [98]
October 10 Meta Quest 3 Reality Labs [99][100]
October 31 Lenovo Legion Go Lenovo [101]
November 10 PlayStation 5 Slim Sony [102]
November 15 PlayStation Portal Sony [103]
November 16 Steam Deck OLED Valve Corporation [104]
November 17 Atari 2600+ Atari, Plaion [105]

Games released in 2023

Main article: List of video games released in 2023

Cancelled games

Discontinued games

Video game-based film and television releases

Title Release / premiere date Type Distributor(s) Franchise(s) Original game publisher(s) Ref.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel – Northern War January 6, 2023 Anime television series Tokyo MX (Japan) Trails Nihon Falcom (Japan)
Xseed Games (worldwide) 		[121]
Nier: Automata Ver1.1a January 8, 2023 Drakengard Square Enix [122]
The Last of Us January 15, 2023 Television series HBO (United States) The Last of Us Sony Interactive Entertainment [123]
Tetris March 31, 2023 Biopic film Apple TV+ Tetris Atari Games [124]
Alice Gear Aegis Expansion April 3, 2023 Anime television series Tokyo MX (Japan)
Hidive (worldwide except Asia) 		Alice Gear Aegis Colopl [125]
The Super Mario Bros. Movie April 5, 2023 CGI animated film Universal Pictures Mario Nintendo [126]
Pokémon Horizons: The Series April 14, 2023[b] Anime television series TV Tokyo (Japan)
Netflix (United States) 		Pokémon Nintendo
The Pokémon Company 		[128]
Raid: Call of the Arbiter May 18, 2023 Limited animated webseries YouTube Raid: Shadow Legends Plarium Games [129]
Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout July 1, 2023 Anime television series Tokyo MX (Japan) Atelier Gust Co. Ltd. (Japan)
Koei Tecmo (worldwide) 		[130]
Resident Evil: Death Island July 7, 2023 CGI animated film Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Resident Evil Capcom [131]
Twisted Metal July 27, 2023 Television series Peacock Twisted Metal Sony Interactive Entertainment [132]
The Sounds of Nightmares August 22, 2023 Podcast series YouTube Little Nightmares Bandai Namco Entertainment [133]
Gran Turismo August 25, 2023 Feature film Sony Pictures Gran Turismo Sony Interactive Entertainment [134]
Pokémon: Paldean Winds September 6, 2023 Limited animated webseries YouTube Pokémon Nintendo
The Pokémon Company 		[135]
Castlevania: Nocturne September 28, 2023 Animated television series Netflix Castlevania Konami [136]
Shangri-La Frontier October 1, 2023 Anime television series TBS (Japan)
Crunchyroll (worldwide) 		N/a N/a [137]
Arknights: Perish in Frost October 6, 2023 TV Tokyo (Japan)
Crunchyroll (worldwide) 		Arknights Hypergryph (China)
Yostar (worldwide) 		[138]
Good Night World October 12, 2023 Anime series Netflix N/a N/a [139]
Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match October 17, 2023 Animated film Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Mortal Kombat Midway Games [140]
Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix October 19, 2023 Anime series Netflix Far Cry Ubisoft [141]
Fill Your Pocket with Adventure Television series TV Tokyo (Japan) Pokémon Nintendo
The Pokémon Company 		[142]
Detective Pikachu & the Mystery of the Missing Flan October 25, 2023 Animated short film YouTube Detective Pikachu
Pokémon 		[143]
Five Nights at Freddy's October 27, 2023 Feature film Universal Pictures Five Nights at Freddy's Scott Cawthon [144]
Onimusha November 2, 2023 Anime series Netflix Onimusha Capcom [145]
Pokémon Concierge December 28, 2023 Stop-motion animated series Pokémon Nintendo
The Pokémon Company 		[146]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Not including digital sales
  2. ^ The series made its VOD debut on March 7, 2024, on Netflix.[127]

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