IGN's Biggest Gaming, Entertainment, and Tech News Stories of 2023

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Another year is almost over, and as the last days of December wind down, we're taking a look back at what's been a monumental year for the video game, entertainment, and tech industries.

Rockstar Games perhaps stole the show in 2023 with its Grand Theft Auto VI reveal, while Mario's new voice, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan's retirement, and Microsoft spending a cool $69 billion on Activision Blizzard elsewhere kept us busy elsewhere. The industry also suffered from devastating layoffs too, however, with thousands of developers losing their jobs.

Barbenheimer kept us entertained on the film front, releasing against the backdrop of colossal strikes that effectively brought Hollywood to a standstill. Three new Star Wars films were announced too, including a sequel to the controversial Sequel Trilogy starring Daisy Ridley. Titan franchises struggled elsewhere, as the likes of Marvel and DC struggled to make waves with several disappointing premieres each.

And 2023 was also the year artificial intelligence became a regular topic of discussion. Entering the public consciousness with exciting new chat functionalities, AI soon became the center of debate in myriad industries including gaming and entertainment. Elsewhere in tech, scientists achieved a nuclear-fusion ignition in a laboratory setting in 2023 for the first time in human history.

Picking through so much nws was therefore a hard task, but IGN has put together this list of the 20 biggest news stories of 2023.

With Resident Evil 4 Remake, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and lots more launching in 2023, no one really expected a somewhat niche Dungeons & Dragons-based role-playing game to emerge as a the game's biggest