What's ahead for gaming in summer 2014

With 2013 firmly in the rearview mirror, the movers and shakers of the video gaming industry are focusing on where the next 12 months will take us.

With new platforms and consoles available and more people playing games on smartphones and tablets, the future appears to be open to a vast array of possibilities.

We asked four industry players what they think the next year will look like. Each offered a few specifics and a broader view about what will be important to game makers and players.

Many expect 2013's releases of new hardware and software platforms -- most notably, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles -- to spur creativity in game development and delivery.

Here's what they told us:

Console wars: PlayStation 4 vs. Xbox One

Ken Levine, creative director, Irrational Games

"2013 was the year of the left field: crowdfunding, the Steam box, in-house streaming. 2014 is the year we're going to start to see how that changes the space. The majority of old-school developers I know now have gone into more personal, niche titles; (it) reminds me of when many of the great PC studios (BioWare, Bungie, Bethesda) started developing console games in the early 2000s.

"Being in gaming is like being in music in the '60s, but there's a new British invasion like every three years. I think disruption is generally a good thing. It keeps us on our toes as developers and usually yields dividends for gamers."

Laser bombardment yields erergy milestone

The event was over a fraction of scintilla of a blink of an eye and released a burst of energy that's not particularly impressive by most standards.

But it's being hailed as a milestone in a decades-long quest to harness the power of nuclear fusion, the same process that powers the sun. For the first time, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of California say they produced more energy from a reaction in their fuel source than they put into the fuel, said Omar Hurrincane, the physicist who led the experiment.

ALTERNATIVES TO THE "DECEASED" 

FLAPPY BIRD

The game was eliminated by his creator, he was "sick" of the sucess of his game flappy bird, but today there are <<apps>> similar to this:

Flappy Bird was a game as viral as fleeting. His creator, Dong Nyugen was "sick" of the success of the game and the addiction that it created and he decidet to remove it from app store and google play.

Nyugen explained that he made the game to make the people have a good time in their boring moments, not to be a collective obsesion.

The new characters of Sonic Boom and top 5 parodies

In the new Nintendo's videogame Sonic Boom for nintendo 3DS and Wii U these will be the new characters of the game:

 -A "long legs" Sonic 

-A "plane pilot" Tails
-A giant Knuckles
-Amy with a great hammer.


And now the best 5 parodies chosen by me

5. Wrestling knuckles
 


 4. Pikachu boom?



3. Sonic Watch Dogs
                                     



 2. Super Mario Boom


1. Sonic's legs evolution in the future