RPS Asks: What Are Your Big PC Hopes For 2013?

News by John Walker Co-founder

Published on Dec. 31, 2012

For some reason 2013 doesn't sound as futuristic as 2012. It's more the sort of date you're used to seeing on tinned food than the year robot unicorns attack. But 2013 could well be the best year PC has ever seen. As you drift off toward your Newyearseving celebration of choice, why not leave a thought on what you're most hoping for?

And I'm not just saying 2013's going to be good because our livelihood relies on the success of PC gaming, no sirree. I'm saying it because I believe it's very true. 2013 is going to be the year where people grow increasingly reluctant to buy consoles, knowing that they'll be out of date and replaced by Christmas. And as console fatigue kicks in it puts the emphasis back on us, before 2014's TV-toy excitement kicks off. It's also a year where developers will be building 2014's games on devkits for the next gen, and thus freed up to explore the greater power the PC already possesses, meaning previews should get more intriguing.

Also, it's just a crazy good year for the games that we already know are coming out, let alone the unrevealed, unknown indie projects, delivery of so many Kickstarter promises, and break-out surprise mods that will sneak up on us along the way. And of top of that, the completely unpredictable, 2013's equivalent to the astonishing rise of crowd-funding and honour-payments that formed so much of 2012. I'm fairly certain it'll be a year that reveals the next twist on big budget game pricing, the evolution of F2P into something new.

2013 will give us BioShock: Infinite, Planetary Annihilation, ArmA 3, Tomb Raider, Crysis 3, Sim City, StarCraft: Heart Of The Swarm, The Elder Scrolls Online, GTA V, Metro Last Light, Watch Dogs, Total War Rome 2... And I'm scraping the surface - we'll have FAR more detail about the games of 2013 over the rest of this week.

So what are your big hopes for 2013 in PC Land? What games can't you wait to play? What changes do you expect to see? What new twists and turns do you predict? Let us know below.

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