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Fantasy Football: 2023 Video Game Edition [SyrupArcade Cast 3]

Even if you’re not into sports, you’re likely familiar with fantasy football. The idea of drafting players or teams early on to see how they fare down the line certainly makes for some good discussion.

However, we at MobileSyrup are decidedly not into sports, so instead, we’ve drawn inspiration from these sorts of fantasy drafts and, naturally, applied that to video games. Specifically, we’ve dedicated our third episode of the nascent SyrupArcade Cast to which 2023 games we think will review the best on OpenCritic.

To start, we assembled a quartet of big gaming fans consisting of regular SyrupArcade Cast hosts Dean Daley and Brad Shankar, as well as MobileSyrup contributors Chris Brown and Steve Vegvari. From there, each of us were given the chance to pick three games that we believe will be among the top-scoring of the year. We’ll also do a follow-up podcast in the middle of the year — after more titles are announced at the likes of E3 and Summer Game Fest — to add two more picks for a total of five each.

Who snagged The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? Where did Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 end up? What about Starfield, Final Fantasy XVI, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor or one of the many other games launching this year? Tune in to the latest episode of the SyrupArcade Cast to find out!

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You can find last month’s Game Awards-focused episode here.

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What games are you excited for in 2023?

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve written about the top games of 2022, both from Canadian teams and developers worldwide, as well as Canadian games to look forward to in 2023.

Now, though, we want to hear what you think. With the start of the new year comes the promise of all kinds of new games. 2023, in particular, is poised to be the year this current-gen of consoles really comes alive. Between the likes of the PS5-only Final Fantasy XVI (June) and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (fall) or Bethesda Xbox Series X/S titles Starfield and Redfall (first half of 2023), it should finally feel as though the industry is moving past the nearly 10-year-old PS4 and Xbox One.

In a similar vein, Nintendo is finally set to release The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in May, a sequel to the beloved Breath of the Wild that the Switch actually launched with way back in March 2017. Other big games include February’s Hogwarts Legacy, March’s Resident Evil 4 remake, May’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Diablo IV, and June’s Street Fighter VI. The PlayStation VR2 is also launching next month.

That’s to say nothing of smaller indie titles, including the likes of the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong (TBA 2023), Jet Set Radio-esque Bomb Rush Cyberpunk (summer), South-Asia-meets-Scott-Pilgrim Thirsty Suitors (TBA 2023) and Quebec City-based Sabotage’s Chrono Trigger-inspired Sea of Stars (first half of 2023).

Personally, the first two games I mentioned are my most anticipated. Two of my favourite things, period, are Final Fantasy and Spider-Man, and getting big new PS5 titles from both franchises in the same year is beyond exciting. As a big JRPG fan, Sea of Stars is likewise hitting all of the right notes so far. March’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, meanwhile, looks like an excellent sequel to 2019’s Jedi: Fallen Order. Replaced, a 2.5D cyberpunk action game, also seems rad.

Of course, more games will be revealed throughout 2023, especially at both E3 and Summer Game Fest in June. For now, though, what are you most excited to play this year? Let us know in the comments.

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will launch on PS5 in fall 2023

PlayStation has revealed that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will launch exclusively on the PlayStation 5 in fall 2023.

The publisher confirmed the release window in a PlayStation Blog post looking ahead to next year’s major game releases. A writer on the game had seemingly leaked a fall 2023 launch on their since-updated website, and PlayStation is now confirming this timing. Insomniac had previously only provided a vague “2023” window.

First unveiled during the September 2021 PlayStation 5 Showcase, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is developer Insomniac’s direct sequel to both 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man and 2020’s Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Little is known about the game currently, other than the fact that both Peter Parker and Miles Morales will be playable and Venom will be one of the main villains. It’s also been confirmed that Yuri Lowenthal and Nadji Jeter will reprise their roles of Peter and Miles, respectively, while Candyman‘s Tony Todd will voice Venom.

It should be noted that Insomniac is also working on Marvel’s Wolverine, although a release window for the X-Men game has yet to be confirmed.

Elsewhere in the blog post, PlayStation highlighted several other 2023 releases, including Square Enix’s Forspoken (January 24th), the DualSense Edge controller (January 26th), Hogwarts Legacy and PlayStation VR2 (February 22nd), Destiny 2: Lightfall (February 28th), Resident Evil 4 (March 24th) and Final Fantasy XVI (June 22nd). Forspoken and Final Fantasy XVI are PS5 console exclusives, while Hogwarts Legacy, Destiny 2: Lightfall and Resident Evil 4 are multiplatform.

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