The biggest change for 2013 is that microsoft is throwing PC gaming under the bus and trying to move all gaming to the consoles. Evidence, you want evidence: 1

The biggest change for 2013 is that microsoft is throwing PC gaming under the bus and trying to move all gaming to the consoles. Evidence, you want evidence: 1. Gaben and a bunch of other people says it's true (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-06-gabe-newell-right-declare-windows-8-a-catastrophe http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-06-gabe-newell-rig...) 2. MS is no longer supporting cross platform (xbox/pc) development and is killing XNA. (http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/147289-microsoft-kills-xbox-360pc-cross-platform-development-declares-directx-no-longer-evolving http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/147289-microsoft-kills-xbo...) Also steam supporting linux has significantly increased the number of linux games. Android linux compatibility is a big win for casual games on linux.