Playtime’s over: how 2023 could reshape video games

A perfect storm of wider cultural and economic forces have been pulling the video games industry apart. Is this the year it remakes itself?There are, littered throughout the history of video games, certain years of radical, fundamental change. We can look at the major crashes in the US games industry in 1977 and 1983, where bloated software libraries and hardware gluts destroyed confidence in the medium and cleared out dozens of companies. We can also look at the arrival of the Sony PlayStation