Top 15 PC Games of 2013

2013 is shaping up to be a great year for PC games, more so than ever before. Here's what's in store.

PC Games | 2013

Update: We've bumped SimCity down to #2 and pushed Battlefield 4 up to #1. It's easily our most wanted game this year. The reason for that simple: SimCity had a buggy launch that wasn't well received by the fans. However, we've yet to give up on the game as it's received a multitude of patches that've come with more than their share of fixes and changes to put the game in fully playable—if completely enjoyable form now that the game's out. It's still not the most polished of games, but it's easily still the best city-building simulation there is.

While many of us have yet to play every game that’s come out this past year, we’re already setting our sights on next year’s offerings because we’re just that excited to play what is to come. The release calendar’s looking tighter than it ever was, and that’s only for the start of the year.

It’s the end of the current generation’s console cycle, and that means graphics—like everything else—has peaked. Developers are doing everything they can with the limitations that are in place, and even more is being done with the PC versions because at this point, there’s simply no turning back.

Beyond adding more detail to the graphical quality and straining the possibilities offered by current platforms, the same is being done with multiplayer because you can’t satisfy gamers with the same offerings we’ve been getting for the past decade. Innovations are being made in every aspect of videogames, and even more is expected to come forth when the next generation of consoles comes out, when consoles find themselves on par with the PC.

It goes without saying that PCs are on the forefront of video game development as they aren’t anywhere as constrained as their console counterparts. They are at least 5 years ahead of the pack—and that’s just a conservative estimate based on the graphics cards that’ve been available to consoles since the release of the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. Advances are even farther along with processor, RAM and storage technology that’ll not only allow developers to make use of high resolution textures and detailed physics engines, but encourage them to do so.

With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of the top 15 most anticipated games for the PC. They’re on the bleeding edge of what videogames, as an entertainment medium, have to offer. 

                                                          

15)Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm is the first expansion pack to Starcraft II, and the second chapter in a planned trilogy of games. The game's campaign takes place after the events of the first game and you take on the role of Sarah Kerrigan and the Zerg race in an all new single-player campaign. 

Like the first game, you'll decide how to proceed through the campaign by choosing your missions and your army's upgrades—which now in the form of Zerg evolutionary enhancements. 

The multiplayer portion of the game, which is arguably what most people are going to get the game for, is also getting some major additions with new buildings, units, and associated strategies.

14)14. The Elder Scrolls Online

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Many of us may be suffering from MMORPG fatigue, especially with games like The Old Republic and RIFT failing to steal the genre's mantle from World of Warcraft—but that doesn't mean we've given up on MMOs entirely. 

The publishers of the Elder Scrolls series—which includes Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind—have decided to try their hand at the genre with The Elder Scrolls Online, and promise to bring their own brand of game play to the genre instead of simply re skinning World of War craft as an Elder Scrolls game. Given the caliber of its makers, the game is well worth looking forward to. 

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