Best and Worst of 2013: The biggest surprises

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2013 was a year littered with pockets of genuine and hard-felt surprise. Between living up to our bittersweet expectations of layoffs and canceled game projects, a long-standing studio was shuttered — not for lack of funds but in the fallout of one of the biggest entertainment mergers in recent history. Corporate heads turned E3 into a reality show with some out-of-left-field sniping, and Nintendo made a 3DS without all that bothersome 3D.