Newzoo maintains 2023 market value prediction at $184bn

HBO's The Last of Us scooped up eight awards at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2023 last night.

The largest technology stocks that lifted the broader market last year are having a less-rosy start to 2024. 

The majority of 2023's Hogwarts Legacy physical sales in the UK came from the PlayStation 5 version, followed by the PS4 and Nintendo Switch versions.

Despite some major releases like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and EA Sports FC 24, Hogwarts Legacy is the UK’s biggest physical game of 2023. As GamesIndustry notes, this is the first time that a football title from EA Sports hasn’t been the best-selling physical game of the year since 2013 when Grand Theft Auto 5 launched.

Hello! Welcome to the 308th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up! This week we take a look back over 2023 and discuss all the major things that have happened over the year to completely change the face of gold making as we know it. My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!

 A new crop of artificial intelligence startups has shaken up Silicon Valley — and the wider business world — throughout this year, but there's one thing that hasn't changed: Big Tech still wields power. In the wake of Microsoft Corp.'s $10 billion investment in OpenAI in January, other tech giants raced to partner with leading AI startups through funding and cloud computing deals. Salesforce Inc. led a round in Hugging Face at a $4.5 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. invested billions in OpenAI rival Anthropic. And Nvidia Corp. seemed to back almost every AI startup of note. 

McDonald's 2023 promotion added special cards featuring a selection of characters from the Paldea region that were introduced with in 2022. The fast-food giant has held eight promotions for in the past and its cards can include a special confetti-style holofoil pattern unique to McDonald's. Although the cards are difficult to come by due to a rush of fans wanting to collect them all, this also means that often the Happy Meal event cards can be valued higher and make for fun additions to any collection.

After a 2022 that gave us RRR, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Top Gun: Maverick, it was hard to imagine this year could match that level of action excellence. But 2023 came through.

On a summer day in New York City, thousands of people gathered in Union Square and spilled out onto the streets. Video footage and images show the crowd vandalizing nearby businesses and setting off fireworks. The New York Police Department showed up and started arresting people. All this commotion was motivated by one person: Kai Cenat. People gathered because he had planned an event to give away PlayStation 5 consoles and gaming computers.

One of 2023’s biggest cinema trends was the way accomplished filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, and many more delivered some of the most creatively and commercially successful work of their careers. There was just something in the air this year, as one major artist after another took big swings that connected.

There are a lot of ways to judge a great performance. In 2023, as in every year, some of the year’s best movies were quirky, colorful, boundary-pushing challenges to the cinematic status quo, and some were low-key, emotionally intense stories, either tracking the lives of famous historical figures or just trying to evoke the pains of real life. Our list of the best performances of the year honors both extremes: outsized performances that tickled and surprised us, and realistic ones that made us forget we were watching a performance. Here are our favorites among the many great performances we saw in movies in 2023.

2023 has been a ground-breaking year for NASA. From receiving asteroid sample to launching Psyche spacecraft, the US space agency achieved various milestones. As the year ends, we have compiled a list of 10 achievements of NASA.