2024 in video games

The video game industry in 2024 was still in midst of large-scale layoffs since 2022, including large cuts from Microsoft Gaming, Electronic Arts, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Nearly 15,000 jobs were cut this year.[1][2][3]

Financial performance

Best-selling premium games by region

The following titles were 2024's top ten best-selling premium games by region (excluding microtransactions and free-to-play titles) on PC and console platforms, for Japan, the United States, and Europe.

Rank Japan[4] United States[5] Europe[6]
1 Super Mario Party Jamboree Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 EA Sports FC 25
2 Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake EA Sports College Football 25 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
3 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Helldivers II EA Sports FC 24
4 Super Mario Bros. Wonder Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Grand Theft Auto V
5 Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! NBA 2K25[a] Hogwarts Legacy
6 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Madden NFL 25 Helldivers II
7 The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Red Dead Redemption 2
8 Minecraft Education Edition EA Sports FC 25 The Crew 2
9 Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 Elden Ring It Takes Two
10 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth EA Sports MVP Bundle Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III

Top-rated games

Critically acclaimed titles

The following table lists the top-rated games released in 2024 based on Metacritic, which generally considers expansions as separate entities.

2024 releases scoring 90/100 or higher on Metacritic[7]
Title Developer(s) Publisher(s) Release Platform(s) Average score
Astro Bot Team Asobi Sony Interactive Entertainment September 6, 2024 PS5 94
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree FromSoftware Bandai Namco Entertainment June 21, 2024 PS4, PS5, WIN, XBO, XSX/S 94
Metaphor: ReFantazio Studio Zero Sega, Atlus October 11, 2024 PS4, PS5, WIN, XSX/S 94
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Square Enix February 29, 2024 PS5 92
Caves of Qud Freehold Games Kitfox Games December 5, 2024 WIN, OSX, LIN 91
Satisfactory Coffee Stain Studios September 10, 2024 WIN 91
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut Black Tabby Games Serenity Forge October 24, 2024 LIN, OSX, NS, PS4, PS5, WIN, XBO, XSX/S 91
UFO 50 Mossmouth September 18, 2024 WIN 91
Animal Well Shared Memory Bigmode May 9, 2024 PS5, NS, WIN, XSX/S 90
Balatro LocalThunk Playstack February 20, 2024 DROID, iOS, OSX, NS, PS4, PS5, WIN, XBO, XSX/S 90
Tekken 8 Bandai Namco Studios / Arika[8] Bandai Namco Entertainment January 26, 2024 PS5, WIN, XSX/S 90
The Last of Us Part II Remastered Naughty Dog Sony Interactive Entertainment January 19, 2024 PS5 90
Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon Type-Moon / HuneX Aniplex June 27, 2024 PS4, NS 90

Major awards

Category / Organization 42nd Golden Joystick Awards
November 21, 2024[9] 		The Game Awards 2024
December 12, 2024[10] 		28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards
February 13, 2025[11] 		25th Game Developers Choice Awards
March 19, 2025[12] 		21st British Academy Games Awards
April 8, 2025[13]
Game of the Year Black Myth: Wukong Astro Bot Balatro Astro Bot
Independent / Debut[i] Indie Another Crab's Treasure,[b]
Balatro 		Balatro Balatro
Debut Balatro
Mobile / Portable N/a Balatro N/a
VR / AR Batman: Arkham Shadow
Artistic Achievement[i] Animation Black Myth: Wukong Metaphor: ReFantazio Astro Bot Black Myth: Wukong Astro Bot
Art Direction Black Myth: Wukong Neva
Audio[i] Music Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Helldivers 2 Astro Bot Helldivers 2
Sound Design Astro Bot Senua's Saga: Hellblade II Helldivers 2 Astro Bot
Character or Performance[i] Leading Role Cody Christian as Cloud Strife
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 		Melina Juergens as Senua
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II 		Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 		N/a Alec Newman as Cameron "Caz" McLeary
Still Wakes the Deep
Supporting Role Briana White as Aerith Gainsborough
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 		Karen Dunbar as Finlay
Still Wakes the Deep
Game Direction
or Design[i]		 Game Design N/a Astro Bot Astro Bot Balatro Astro Bot
Game Direction Animal Well
Narrative Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Metaphor: ReFantazio Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Metaphor: ReFantazio
Technical Achievement N/a Astro Bot Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
Multiplayer / Online Helldivers 2 N/a Helldivers 2
Action N/a Black Myth: Wukong Helldivers 2 N/a
Adventure N/a Astro Bot Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Family N/a Astro Bot N/a Astro Bot
Fighting N/a Tekken 8 N/a
Role-Playing N/a Metaphor: ReFantazio
Sports/Racing Sports N/a EA Sports FC 25 MLB The Show 24
Racing F1 24
Strategy/Simulation N/a Frostpunk 2 Balatro
Social Impact N/a Neva N/a Life Is Strange: Double Exposure Tales of Kenzera: Zau
Special Award N/a Game Changer Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Pioneer Award Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Fellowship
Amir Satvat Ted Price Don James Lucas Pope Sam Lake Yoko Shimomura
  1. ^ a b c d e Some award presentations combine these categories.

Major events

Date Event Ref.
January 3 Thirteen-year-old Willis Gibson became the first person known to "beat" the NES version of Tetris by reaching its killscreen. [14]
January 8–11 Unity Technologies announced layoffs affecting 1,800 jobs. [15]
January 8–11 Twitch announced layoffs affecting 500 jobs. [16]
January 8–11 Discord announced layoffs affecting 170 jobs. [17]
January 22 Riot Games laid off about 530 staff. [18]
January 25 Microsoft Gaming laid off 1,900 staff, and the president of Blizzard Entertainment, Mike Ybarra, left the company. [19]
January 29 Eidos-Montréal laid off about 100 staff as part of the continuing Embracer Group restructuring. [20]
February 7 The Walt Disney Company announced a $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games. [21]
February 13–15 The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosted the 2024 D.I.C.E. Summit and the 27th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Koji Kondo was inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame. [22][23]
February 27 Sony Interactive Entertainment laid off 900 employees across various studios. [24]
February 28 Electronic Arts laid off 670 staff. [2]
February 28 Toys for Bob split from Activision and became independent. [25]
March 8 Sega of America laid off 61 employees across its QA and localization departments. [26]
March 8 600 Activision QA workers unionized under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), creating the largest video game union in North America. [27]
March 14 Embracer Group divested Saber Interactive and a portion of its studios to a private firm for $247 million. [28]
March 18–22 The 2024 Game Developers Conference was held in San Francisco. [29]
March 28 Relic Entertainment was sold by Sega to an unspecified investor. 240 employees were laid off across multiple Sega Europe studios. [30][31]
April 9 Nintendo discontinued the online services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software. [32]
April 16 Take-Two Interactive announced plans to reduce its workforce by 5% by December 2024. [33]
April 22 Embracer Group announced its intention to transform into three standalone publicly listed entities at Nasdaq Stockholm within the next two years. [34]
April 23 Atari SA announced that the Infogrames brand would be revived for acquired and archived titles that do not fit within the Atari brand portfolio. The first game released under the brand was Totally Reliable Delivery Service, acquired by Atari SA from the original publisher tinyBuild. [35]
April 27–29 Evo Japan 2024 was held in Tokyo. [36]
May 7 Microsoft Gaming closed Arkane Austin and Alpha Dog Games; Roundhouse Studios was merged into Zenimax Online. [37]
May 23 Atari SA acquired the Intellivision brand and games catalog. [38]
June 7–10 Summer Game Fest 2024 was held at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. [39]
June 11 Sumo Group laid off nearly 250 staff. [40]
June 12 Take-Two Interactive closed its acquisition of Gearbox Entertainment from Embracer Group for $460 million. [41][42]
June 14 Microsoft closed Tango Gameworks. [43]
June 28 Take-Two Interactive closed Intercept Games. [44]
July 19–21 The 2024 Evolution Championship Series was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. [45]
July 24 The International Olympic Committee approved the formation of the Olympic Esports Games to launch in 2025 in Saudi Arabia. [46]
July 24 500 Blizzard Entertainment employees unionized under the Communications Workers of America. [47]
July 26 SAG-AFTRA voice actors began striking over failure to reach agreements with multiple studios over the use of AI voice acting in video games. [48]
July 30 The IOC discontinued the Mario & Sonic series after 17 years of partnership with Nintendo and Sega which started in 2007. [49][50]
July 31 Bungie laid off 220 staff. [51]
August 2 GameStop shuttered Game Informer after 33 years. [52]
August 7 Meta closed Ready at Dawn. [53]
August 11 Tango Gameworks was revived by Krafton. [54]
August 21–25 Gamescom 2024 was held in Cologne, Germany. [55]
August 28 After nearly 20 years of original closure, Argonaut Games was relaunched. [56]
September 18 Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair. [57]
September 26–29 Tokyo Game Show 2024 was held at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. [58]
October 2 The Nintendo Museum opened in Kyoto, Japan. [59]
October 18 Keywords Studios acquired Certain Affinity. [60]
October 30 Nintendo Music, a music streaming service featuring Nintendo soundtracks, was released. [61]
November 6 Take-Two Interactive sold Private Division to an unspecified investor. Roll7 was shut down. [62]
December 12 The Game Awards 2024 was held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. [63]
December 19 Sony and Kadokawa Corporation, the parent company of FromSoftware, Spike Chunsoft and Acquire, agreed to form a strategic business alliance, with Sony becoming the largest shareholder in Kadokawa. [64]

Notable deaths

Hardware releases

Apple Vision Pro
Date Console Manufacturer Ref.
February 2 Apple Vision Pro Apple [90]
March 8 MSI Claw A1M Micro-Star International [91]
March 28 Atari 400 Mini Retro Games Ltd. [92]
October 15 Meta Quest 3S Reality Labs [93]
November 7 PlayStation 5 Pro Sony [94]
November 29 Atari 7800+ Atari, Plaion [95]

Games released in 2024

Main article: List of video games released in 2024

Cancelled games

Discontinued games

Video game-based film and television releases

Title Release / premiere date Type Distributor Franchise Original game
publisher 		Ref.
Ark: The Animated Series March 21, 2024 Animated series Paramount+ Ark Studio Wildcard [106]
Blue Archive the Animation April 7, 2024 Anime television series TV Tokyo (Japan) Blue Archive Nexon [107]
Fallout April 10, 2024 Television series Amazon Prime Video Fallout Bethesda Softworks [108]
Knuckles April 26, 2024 Paramount+ Sonic the Hedgehog Sega [109]
Angry Birds Mystery Island May 21, 2024 Animated series Amazon Prime Video Angry Birds Rovio Entertainment [110]
Dead Cells: Immortalis June 19, 2024 Animation Digital Network (France) Dead Cells Motion Twin [111]
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin July 6, 2024 Anime television series TV Tokyo (Japan) Sakuna Xseed Games [112]
Atri: My Dear Moments July 14, 2024 Tokyo MX (Japan) Atri Aniplex [113]
Borderlands August 9, 2024 Feature film Lionsgate Films Borderlands 2K [114]
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft October 10, 2024 Animated series Netflix Tomb Raider Eidos Interactive [115]
Like a Dragon: Yakuza October 25, 2024 Television series Amazon Prime Video Yakuza Sega [116]
Secret Level December 10, 2024 Animated series Various [117]
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 December 20, 2024 Feature film Paramount Pictures Sonic the Hedgehog Sega [118]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Not included digital sales from October to December
  2. ^ Self-published Indie
  3. ^ Cancelled one week after being revealed.

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