What Does 2013 Hold for a Gaming Industry in Flux?

The last year was a turbulent and exciting one in gaming.
After Double Fine's record-breaking Kickstarter, a gold rush began as indies funded their dreams with the masses. Facebook reported 235 million of its users play games each month. Nintendo launched a console that faced "second-screen" entertainment head on. A live-action series about Halo was watched millions of times on YouTube. These are but a handful of trends that forecast the future.

Mashable spoke to 16 prominent figures across the games industry to discern what might be coming down the pike in 2013. Many of those quoted below talked about similar themes: freemium games, the rise of digital distribution, new console and tablet hardware, and crowdfunding for indie games. Read below to see their full predictions.
Do you agree or disagree with these forecasts? What do you think 2013 has in store for gaming? Share your predictions with us in the comments.

Warren Spector (System Shock, Deus Ex and Disney's Epic Mickey)

"I'm kind of just excited about sitting back and watching how the next year is going to shake out. I'm excited and I'm scared. It's not like the usual chaos. Gaming has always been chaos. There was always a new platform or something coming along to shake things up. Now, we still have all of that, but is Facebook the future of gaming? Probably not, but it's a part of it. Is mobile? Is the next generation of consoles? Is indie the future? Everything is happening, and nobody knows where we're going.
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