2024 in video games

In the video game industry, 2024 saw job losses extending from 2023, including large cuts from Microsoft Gaming, Electronic Arts, and Sony Interactive Entertainment, and with over 8,000 jobs lost during the months of January, February, and March.

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.

Major events

Notable deaths

• January 10 – Jennell Jaquays, 67, tabletop and video game designer, with contributions for Dungeons & Dragons and at id Software.
• February 1 – Carl Weathers, 76, actor, best known for portraying Apollo Creed in the Rocky films and providing voice work in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Mortal Kombat X and The Artful Escape.
• February 5 – Laralyn McWilliams, 58, game designer, lead designer of Full Spectrum Warrior and creative director of Free Realms.
• February 6 – Yoshitaka Murayama, 55, game designer, creator of the Suikoden series.
• March 1 – Akira Toriyama, 68, manga creator of Dragon Ball, and character designer for games including the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger and Blue Dragon.
• March 10 – Mutsumi Inomata, 63, illustrator, character designer for the Tales series.
• March 27 – Joe Lieberman, 82, U.S. senator who led the congressional investigation of violent video games in 1993.
• March 29 – Louis Gossett Jr., 87, stage and screen actor that voiced the Vortigaunts in Half-Life 2.
• May 5 – Bernard Hill, 79, voice actor that voiced Sir Walter Beck in Fable III, and actor best known for portraying King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings sequel film adaptations of "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King".

Hardware releases

Game releases

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Unscheduled releases

Video game-based film and television releases

Cancelled games

• Tom Clancy's The Division Heartland, Ubisoft (Win, PS4, PS5, XBO, XSX)

See also

• 2024 in esports

Notes

References