It's 2023 and we've got a lot of exciting new game releases to look forward to this year, and you know what that means: even more gaming memes! We've put together our first ‘best gaming memes of the week’ list of the year to get you hyped for a game-filled 2023. As for me, I'll probably keep playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild over and over again until it's 2024 and all the games have gone on sale.

Back again for another round of the best gaming memes on this side of the internet? Well it's your lucky day, because we happen to have a fresh batch just for you and every kind of gamer out there. Press pause, grab a snack, and get ready for some top-tier gamer content.

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Greetings, gamers . As always, we've got yet another terrific batch of the best gaming memes around for every kind of gamer out there. Now would be a great time to press pause and enjoy some dank content. Don't forget to manually save! You know, just in case.

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There's a bunch of reasons why Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time, one of them being the fact that the Minecraft world is truly open. There's no wrong way to play—one can choose creative mode, in which the player can unlock all the different kinds of blocks available and build almost anything imaginable. Or the player can choose survival mode, where resources are scarce, predators loom, and the game's internal lore becomes more apparent. Anyone who's managed to kill the Ender…

We're living in a golden era of gaming . The evidence is all around us—the biggest esports streamers are earning just as much as professional athletes. Mario and Dungeons and Dragons blockbusters are soon to be released. Steam's all-time concurrent player count peaked this year. Not to mention, every other meme format these days seems to have been sourced from a video game. You'll find no complaints around these parts. Keep the gaming content coming! In celebration of a great year in gaming, we…

Kids say the darndest things

Bonus round: The Game Awards has an unexpected visitor.

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Now this is shitposting

The year is 2050. Microsoft announces its tenth stage of pre-production for The Elder Scrolls VI with a still image of a misty pond in the woods. Geriatric Scrolls fans lose their damn minds (again). You think I'm joking, but it's a completely plausible scenario. But don't cry just yet—we've got memes! Lots and lots of Elder Scrolls memes! Just keep scrolling. Scroll the pain away.

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28 years have passed since gamers first virtually stepped foot in Tamriel, a land of medieval fantasy. Fans have been really feeling the absence of a new Scrolls game from Bethesda. There hasn't been a new game since the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (unless, of course, you consider all the online versions). Still, this hasn't stopped fans from creating hilarious Morrowind , Oblivion , and Skyrim content. Scrolls fans are so thirsty for a new game, that they've resorted to modding Skyr…

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