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This year has been full of massive titles to compete for your attention. They are for players on a Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, or one of the best gaming laptops. Here's our guide to the best upcoming games for 2024.
Some of these titles were anticipated last year but delayed. In 2024, video game consoles and developers adapted to new tech and the pandemic. This year marks a giant leap forward in gaming.
But whether it's the start of spring, a packed summer, or beyond, plenty of fun games are coming up. They will be on any platform you play on. Read on for our picks of the best upcoming games.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
A team made Hollow Knight of three people. It is an indie Metroidvania that has grown in cult status since its...
Virtual reality is bringing our wildest imaginations to life. Remember how, as kids, we used to create vast kingdoms in our minds and pretend we were rulers? Now, virtual reality technology makes those dreams almost tangible. Virtual reality (VR) is changing gaming in a big way. It lets players feel like they're inside the game world. Remember games like GTA: Vice City and Counter-Strike? Now, VR is taking gaming to the next level.
What Is Virtual Reality Gaming?
VR or virtual reality gaming is an app. It is based on a story. It streams a multi-dimensional fake world to video games. These apps are made with virtual reality software. They are given to the user to experience the VR environment. Moreover, VR games are compatible with...
Apple's latest update to the App Store's app and review policies has included a section about retro game emulation, meaning developers can distribute emulators through the App Store, though with a number of rules and regulations. Apple's devices have restrictions on running external source code, such as video game emulators. Due to the shaky legal and copyright issues that also come with video game emulators, Apple has never officially distributed them on the App Store.
Despite this, gamers have gotten Apple devices to run various retro video game emulators like RetroArch and OpenEmu. Sometimes, developers would disguise their apps and hide emulators within them to bypass Apple's review process and have their emulators distributed...
Like many modern RPGs, Dragon's Dogma 2 features a wide range of special items that improve various stats. While many of these items take the form of armor or weapons, one of the most powerful examples of this mechanic is the game's vast collection of rings. Rings are at the heart of DD2's extensive customization options, allowing players to tailor their loadout to specific combat scenarios.
In Dragon's Dogma 2, players can have two rings equipped at any given time. There are a huge number of possible upgrades and stats boosts offered by these powerful items. From increasing max carry weight, to speeding up affinity gains between characters, the game truly offers something for every playstyle. This guide will reveal a complete list of...
Nightdive Studio's System Shock remake confirmed a number of features that will be added in the next massive update, which will be released later this April. These new features for the System Shock remake include a female hacker, optional waypoints, and more.
The 2023 System Shock remake faithfully recreates the original 1994 first-person shooter, while adding a number of quality-of-life improvements and upgrading the visuals without compromising the original game's design. The remake had a rather troubled development, beginning in 2015 with a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $1 million to fund the project. However, it took eight years to develop after restarting development and being delayed several times due to engine switches...
Nintendo has always been known for its family-friendly games, with every one of the Japanese video gaming company's consoles featuring a far greater number of E-rated titles than its competitor's offerings. But with the release of the Switch, Nintendo has proven that it too can offer a fair balance of kid-friendly and adult titles, with the current console offering a great variety of horror games.
There are tons of great survival horror games for the Switch, with far more available here than any of Nintendo's previous consoles. Here are some great survival horror games that are available for the Switch.
Updated September 21, 2023, by Megan Smith: Horror games have been a prominent part of gaming for many years with players enjoying...
Crypt of the NecroDancer finally got its Synchrony update last month, and now Brace Yourself Games has revealed even more paid DLC is on the way.
The newest announcement is a crossover with the one and only Hatsune Miku. This content is available now on other platforms and will come to the Nintendo Switch "soon". Here's what's in this new update (via Steam):
New character
Hatsune Miku:
Move in all 8 directions, don't stand still!
Dance through enemies to hit them with your trusty spring onion!
No shovel - dig by dashing through enemies into walls instead!
Charm monsters and shatter walls with your new ability: SING!
Land consecutive hits to deal increasing amounts of damage and regain SING charges!
New soundtrack
Hatsune Miku...
Following the announcement of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance in February, Atlus has now released the second official trailer for the game.
In case you missed it, this will be the "definitive version" of Shin Megami Tensei V - featuring a brand new storyline, new locations, new demons to add to your team and new choices to make. Here's some additional PR:
The game's release date was also shifted last month from 21st June to 14th June 2024 (one week earlier). Anyone who has already pre-ordered a copy online doesn't have to worry, as the updated release date will be automatically adjusted.
Rule of Rose, a cult-classic PlayStation 2 title from 2006, may be getting a remaster. While horror franchises like Fatal Frame and Silent Hill rose in popularity in the 2000s, Sony asked developer Punchline to create a survival horror title for the PlayStation 2. This led to Rule of Rose, which featured gameplay focused on puzzle solving and surviving combat scenarios.
After release, Rule of Rose received a cult-following, with some believing it to be among the best PS2 survival horror games. Fans appreciated the game's unique art direction, story, and creative risks that made it stand out from other survival horror games of its time. Despite the praise gamers had for it, the title was banned in the UK for its themes of violence and...
Maggie Gyllenhaal shared a first look at a tattooed Christian Bale as Frankenstein's Monster on her Instagram page for her upcoming film, The Bride.
Gyllenhaal's black and white camera test photo shows Bale slicking his hair back with one hand while exposing his stitched-together chest with the other revealing a tattoo across his chest. Upon first glance, the slightly obscured tattoo appears to be the word "hope" inscribed in cursive — echoing similar vibes to Jared Leto's "damaged" Joker forehead tattoo from David Ayer's Suicide Squad. The tattoo could also be something else entirely — Penelope? — considering part of Bale's jacket obfuscates the rest of his chest.
Regardless, the subject matter of Bale's tattoo — be it part of a name...
uLaunch
uLaunch is a custom, open-source Nintendo Switch HOME menu replacement/reimplementation!
This isn't some kind of HOME menu extension, injection, patch, etc.: uLaunch is an entire reimplementation (of key components), 100% open-source!
For more detailed information, check uLaunch's GitHub repository: https://github.com/XorTroll/uLaunch
Releases: https://github.com/XorTroll/uLaunch/releases/latest
Let uLaunch be the HOME menu Nintendo never bothered to make!
The highly popular and accurate FPGA hardware, MisterFGPA, has received today a brand new update with a long-awaited feature, or rather, a new core for hardcore players to enjoy, with the N64 core.
For the unaware, an FPGA stands for Field Programmable Gate Arrays, which in layman's terms means that the hardware is made up of a wide variety of "arrays" that allow the programmer to modify the way in which the hardware itself works, basically reconfiguring the hardware to achieve or meet certain requirements, and in some cases, to mimic other hardware, which in the case of the MisterFPGA, it mimics the original hardware of several video game consoles through "cores", which are developed by many contributors and cover a wide range of...
With the overwhelmingly positive reception that Palworld has gotten the past few couple of days, the surge of mods for the game was more than expected, and of course, given the obvious comparisons between Palworld and Pokemon floating around, a Pokemon mod for Palworld was only a matter of time.
ToastedShoes teased a brand new Pokemon mod for Palworld on his Twitter account on January 22nd, 2024, with the mod showcasing a player mod that changes the main character to Ash Ketchum of the Pokemon anime series, as well as changing the "Pal" creatures from Palworld into actual Pokemon 3D models. However, it didn't take long for Nintendo to catch up to this.
Just mere hours after the Twitter teaser post was made, Nintendo sent a full DMCA...
The Resident Evil 2 Remake released back in 2019 to high acclaim, with the incredible features that the RE Engine brings to the table, which was previously used in Resident Evil 7, it's high quality visuals, audio and retelling of the original and beloved Resident Evil 2 story that many still hold as one of the best in the series.
However, while many enjoyed the title, there were still some that wished Capcom still gave Resident Evil 2 a proper fixed-camera treatment for a Remake, something akin to that of the Resident Evil (1) Remake. The RE2 Remake didn't offer any option for fixed cameras, sadly, but when the developers don't offer such options, the fans are always there to pick up the work.
A brand-new mod has been released over...
First launched last year, SimpleModDownloader is a Nintendo Switch homebrew, developed by GBAtemp member @PoloNX, that allows you to download mods from gamebanana directly to your Nintendo Switch. The developer has just released a major update to the app which has been rewritten from scratch and utilizes a new version of Borealis for the UI. Some of the new changes include: Here's the changelog, which is quite extensive, and I may have surely missed some things
Rewritten app from scratch using Borealis.
Transitioned to a new build tool: CMake.
Added a new page to preview the mod.
Implemented detection to check if a mod is compatible with SimpleModDownloader.
Added a fix to prevent a crash that occurred when the mod contained special...
The upcoming "Fallout" series, premiering on Prime Video, got a brand-new video today in the form of a featurette, with interviews with the showrunners, cast and director, as well as showcasing a whole set of behind the scenes footage for the series.
The video gives a look at new scenes from the series, and gives a brief explanation about some of the more important character that the series will focus on, like Lucy, the Ghoul, and other characters. The series will premiere on Prime Video on April 11th, 2024, with all episodes being available the same day.
Windblown's fast, flashy combat and seemingly lighthearted aura are what first caught my eye. In its trailer, anthropomorphic animal heroes move like lightning and slash through enemies with swords and daggers. Innocent slacking during a training session turns into a war cry as a bulky enemy effortlessly slices through a teammate, red splashing onto the battlefield as you rush in for the final blow. Like Dead Cells, the previous game from developer Motion Twin, it excited me with what looked to be responsive, creative gameplay with a dark underbelly waiting to be discovered through environmental storytelling.
At GDC 2024, GameSpot took a sneak peek at Windblown and spoke to Motion Twin about its inspirations and what the team aimed to...
Thirty years ago today, Square unleashed Final Fantasy 6 upon the world, revolutionizing both the franchise and the role-playing game genre. Not only would Final Fantasy 6 end up being the last game in the series to utilize 2D sprite-based graphics, but it would also be the first game in the series to feature direction from someone other than Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. As a result, Final Fantasy 6 represents a monumental turning point for the franchise, signaling the passing of the torch from the first generation of creators to the new luminaries behind the Final Fantasy games. Essentially, Final Fantasy 6 is the end of an era.
But the title also represents the pinnacle of the series' first 7 years of existence...
In my Once Human demo, things got really weird when I wanted to ride the bus. And that's because the bus had legs. In a post-apocalyptic open world where an outbreak of cosmic energy called Stardust has sent everything a little wacky, even the public transport is bonkers.
Once Human is currently Steam's 11th most-wishlisted game – a multiplayer open-world survival game in which players can battle creatures or each other, build and defend shared territories, indulge in OTT combat or just chill with friends at their base. Ahead of its final closed beta test (which starts April 3) and planned Q3 launch, the development team at Starry Studio gave me a private glimpse at what's to come.
But first, back to the bus. Once Human's monsters are...
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is approaching the final phase of its lifecycle, bringing an end to the dragon-filled adventures players have become accustomed to and making way for the next installment in the MMO, The War Within.
Before it takes its final bow, the current expansion has one more season left for players to enjoy, with changes to its dungeons, raids, and endgame content and progression to keep players busy. Here is when Season 4 releases and what kind of content will be included.
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Season 4 Release Date
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Season 4 will officially begin on April 23, and will run until the release of the next expansion, which is set to release later this year. With this new...