60 free 2023 Video Game trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
2023 was one of the strongest years in video game history: 25 games scored 90 or better on Metacritic by October, the most since 2004. This quiz covers the whole year, from the January surprise release of Hi-Fi Rush to the December trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, with the big releases in between: Baldur's Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, Starfield, Hogwarts Legacy, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Street Fighter 6, Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI and the Resident Evil 4 remake. It also covers the year's business and drama: Microsoft closing its $75 billion Activision Blizzard deal, Unity's runtime-fee revolt, the cancellation of E3, The Day Before vanishing four days after launch, the Redfall flop, the industry's 9,000 layoffs, and the winners at The Game Awards. Questions start easy (who won Game of the Year, who voices Bowser in the Mario movie) and get properly hard (what Microsoft gave Ubisoft, how many planets Starfield claims, which studio made Cocoon). Every answer is checked against Wikipedia's articles on the games, studios and events, and each question shows its source once you have answered. Share your score, then try the general video game quiz for the retro and modern classics that came before.
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Q 01Which game won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023, the first to sweep the top prize at all five major ceremonies?
Baldur's Gate 3
It led the show with nine nominations and six wins. Its Windows release had been moved forward four weeks to get out of the way of Starfield.
Q 02Which Belgian studio developed 2023's Game of the Year, adapting the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons?
Larian Studios
Wizards of the Coast turned down the studio's first pitch after Divinity: Original Sin, then said yes after seeing its sequel. The first act spent three years in early access from August 2020.
Q 03Neil Newbon won Best Performance at The Game Awards 2023 for voicing which vampire-spawn rogue companion?
Astarion
The hedonistic high elf was written by Stephen Rooney. Newbon was famously cut off by the play-off music during his acceptance speech.
Q 04Which die decides most combat and dialogue outcomes in Baldur's Gate 3?
A 20-sided die
The d20 is the heart of tabletop D&D too. The game's setting, the Forgotten Realms, comes straight from the tabletop as well.
Q 05Which 2023 Remedy Entertainment horror sequel won Best Narrative and Best Art Direction at The Game Awards?
Alan Wake 2
Its writer hero has been trapped in an alternate dimension for 13 years. At a reported 70 million euros, it was one of the most expensive cultural products ever made in Finland.
Q 06Which company published Remedy Entertainment's 2023 horror sequel under a 2021 two-game deal?
Epic Games Publishing
Remedy had bought the Alan Wake rights back from Microsoft in 2019. Alan Wake Remastered was the first game under the Epic partnership.
Q 07Which FBI agent, whose 'Mind Place' is a 3D case board, co-leads Alan Wake 2?
Saga Anderson
The two campaigns can be played in any order. Alan's equivalent is the 'Writer's Room', where changing the plot outline reshapes the space around him.
Q 08The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sold how many million copies in its first three days in 2023?
10
That made it the fastest-selling Zelda ever and the fastest-selling Nintendo game in the Americas. It went on to become one of the Switch's best-sellers.
Q 09Tears of the Kingdom added islands in the sky and a vast underground region beneath Hyrule called what?
The Depths
The dark region needs light sources to explore and is full of 'gloom', a substance that temporarily cuts Link's maximum hearts.
Q 10Which Tears of the Kingdom ability lets Link stick objects together to build vehicles?
Ultrahand
The building mechanics grew out of Breath of the Wild DLC ideas that got too big, and were inspired by the experiments players posted on social media.
Q 11Tears of the Kingdom was the first Nintendo-developed game to carry which U.S. launch price?
$70
Sony and Microsoft had already moved their big first-party titles to that price on the newer consoles; Nintendo held out on the Switch until this release.
Q 12Which studio developed Hogwarts Legacy, its first non-Disney project since 2005?
Avalanche Software
Warner Bros. bought the studio in 2017. Before that it was best known for Disney Infinity, and the wizarding game reportedly cost about $150 million to make.
Q 13Hogwarts Legacy is set how long before the events of the Harry Potter novels?
100 years
The 1800s setting was chosen so players could build their own story away from established characters. Its early-access period made it Twitch's most-watched single-player game ever.
Q 21A new fruit power-up in Super Mario Bros. Wonder transforms Mario into which animal?
An elephant
The other new power-ups are a bubble flower and a drill mushroom. Wonder Flowers trigger effects like pipes coming to life mid-level.
Q 22Who voiced Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, released in April 2023?
Jack Black
Chris Pratt voiced Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy was Peach and Seth Rogen played Donkey Kong. The film was produced by Illumination with Nintendo.
Q 23Roughly how much did The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the first billion-dollar video game film, gross worldwide?
$1.36 billion
Nintendo had avoided film deals for decades after the 1993 live-action flop. Shigeru Miyamoto met Illumination's boss through the Super Nintendo World theme-park work.
Q 14How many million copies did Hogwarts Legacy sell in its first two weeks, generating $850M in revenue?
12
It went on to pass 40 million copies and $1 billion in revenue, all while facing boycott calls over J. K. Rowling's views on transgender people.
Q 15Todd Howard described Starfield, Bethesda's first new IP in 25 years, with which three-word phrase?
Skyrim in space
Active development began after Fallout 4 in 2015, on a heavily modified Creation Engine built to handle procedural planets.
Q 16Starfield lets players land on more than how many planets?
1,000
Most of the landscapes are procedurally generated around handcrafted points of interest. New Atlantis is the largest fictional city Bethesda has ever built.
Q 17Starfield launched on September 6, 2023, for Windows and which console family only?
Xbox Series X/S
Microsoft had bought Bethesda's parent ZeniMax in 2021, so the space RPG skipped PlayStation at launch. A PS5 version did not arrive until April 2026.
Q 18Marvel's Spider-Man 2 pits Peter Parker and Miles Morales against Kraven and which alien symbiote?
Venom
The symbiote bonds with Peter and gives him the black suit and new powers, at the cost of his personal relationships. Tony Todd voiced it.
Q 19How many million copies did Marvel's Spider-Man 2 sell in its first 24 hours, a PlayStation Studios record?
2.5
It passed five million within 11 days. Insomniac's PS5 exclusive later came to Windows in 2025 via porting house Nixxes.
Q 20Super Mario Bros. Wonder takes place in a new land that Bowser fuses himself with. What is it called?
The Flower Kingdom
It was the first side-scrolling Super Mario since New Super Mario Bros. U in 2012, and became the fastest-selling Super Mario game ever.
Q 24Which publisher did Microsoft finish acquiring in October 2023, the biggest video game deal ever?
Activision Blizzard
The deal was announced at $68.7 billion in January 2022 and ended up costing $75.4 billion. It brought Call of Duty, Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch and Candy Crush under Xbox.
Q 25Which company got ten years of cloud-streaming rights for Activision games to satisfy the UK regulator?
Ubisoft
The CMA had blocked the deal in April 2023 over cloud gaming concerns. The U.S. FTC had also tried, and failed, to get a court to stop the merger.
Q 26To calm Sony's fears, Microsoft committed to keeping Call of Duty on PlayStation through which year?
2033
Sony's chief worry was that the series would become an Xbox exclusive. Microsoft also signed a ten-year deal to bring the games to Nintendo platforms.
Q 27What is the Florida-based fictional state revealed in the first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer called?
Leonida
It contains a Miami-inspired Vice City, the Everglades-like Grassrivers and the Leonida Keys. Rockstar dropped the trailer to mark its 25th anniversary.
Q 28How many million views did the GTA VI trailer reach in 24 hours, YouTube's third-most ever for that span?
93
It set the record for first-day views on a non-music video within 12 hours and passed the lifetime views of GTA V's 2011 reveal trailer inside two days.
Q 29Street Fighter 6's main new mechanic, a meter that can be spent on five different techniques, is called what?
The Drive Gauge
Most of its techniques update older systems such as parries and focus attacks. The game also added a real-time commentary option to mimic tournament broadcasts.
Q 30In the 2023 Resident Evil 4 remake, Leon rescues the president's daughter from a cult in which country?
Spain
The remake expanded Ashley Graham's characterisation and shipped side content in which players control Ada Wong. It became the fastest-selling Resident Evil at the time.