The year 2013 is the two-thousandth and thirteenth year of the Common Era. The year has many science fiction releases, such as Man of Steel, The Last of Us, and Pacific Rim. In fiction several sci-fi games, movies, and books taking place during the year or referring to it. It follows 2012 and is followed by 2014.
Releases[]
January
- 1st: Star Wars: Scoundrels is released in the U.S.
- 1st: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Shadow Conspiracy is released.
- 4th: All Superheroes Must Die is released.
- 8th: Earth Defense Force 2017 is released for the PS Vita.
- 11th: Storage 24 is released.
- 25th: Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is released for Windows.
February
- 1st: Warm Bodies is released.
- 5th: Dead Space 3 is released for multiple platforms.
- 8th: Side Effects is released.
- 12th: Alien Breed is released for Playstation Network and the PS Vita.
- 14th: Escape from Planet Earth is released.
- 19th: Crysis 3 is released.
- 22nd: Dark Skies is released.
- 25th: Krater is released for Mac.
March
- 19th: Gears of War: Judgement is released for Xbox 360.
- 19th: The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is released for multiple platforms.
- 19th: Halo: Silentium is released.
- 25th: Bioshock Infinite is released for multiple platforms.
- 29th: G.I. Joe Retaliation is released.
- 29th: The Host is released.
April
- 2nd: Defiance is released for multiple platforms.
- 5th: Upstream Color is released.
- 12th: Oblivion is released in IMAX.
- 14th: An expansion to Star Wars: The Old Republic, Rise of the Hutt Cartel, is released on Windows.
- 16th: Injustice: Gods Among Us is released on multiple platforms.
- 19th: Oblivion is released in non-IMAX theaters.
- 23rd: Dead Island: Riptide is released for multiple platforms.
- 23rd: Star Trek is released on multiple platforms.
- 25th: XCOM: Enemy Unknown is released on Mac.
- 26th: Mars: War Logs is released on Windows.
- 30th: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is released for Playstation Network.
May
- 1st: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is released for Windows and Xbox Live Marketplace.
- 3rd: Iron Man 3 is released.
- 10th: About Time is released.
- 14th: Dust 514 is released for PS3.
- 14th: Metro Last Light is released for multiple platforms.
- 17th: Star Trek Into Darkness is released.
June
- 7th: After Earth is released.
- 14th: Man of Steel is released.
- 21st: World War Z is released.
July
- 12th: Pacific Rim is released.
- 19th: R.I.P.D. is released.
- 26th: The Wolverine is released.
August
- 9th: Elysium is released.
September
- 6th: Riddick is released.
October
- 4th: Gravity is released.
- 25th: The World's End is released.
November
- 1st: Ender's Game is released.
December
Science Fiction Events[]
May
- 21st: Halo: The Television Series is announced at the Xbox One reveal event.
World Events[]
January
- 16th–20th: Thirty-nine international workers and one security guard die in a hostage crisis at a natural gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria.
February
- 12th: North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test, prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.
- 15th: A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century. The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.
- 28th – Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.
March
- 13th: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
April
- 15th: Two Chechen Islamist brothers explode two bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.
June
- 6th – American Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.
September
- 21st: al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.
November
- 8th: Typhoon Haiyan ("Yolanda"), one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.
- 24th: Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.
December
- 14th: Chinese spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so.
Sci-fi Set in 2013[]
Marvel Comics[]
The future part of the Days of Future Past storyline take place.
The Last of Us[]
The opening sequence in Austin, Texas takes place in this year.