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08.01.2024 - 06:21 / venturebeat.com
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Happy New Year, everyone! My horrendous cold is finally starting to subside — I can’t believe I’ve been sick literally all year. In the meantime, let’s talk about plans for 2024 and how well I did on my resolutions for 2023. Last year was a whirlwind of good news, bad news and too many games. I led two GamesBeat conferences and met so many amazing people! It wasn’t always a good year, but it was never a boring one, not for one single minute. So what can I do — what can we do — to make 2024 better?
In 2023, my resolutions were to work my way through my 2022 backlog and to be a more social gamer. I definitely didn’t fulfill the former, because there just weren’t enough hours in the year considering how many new games came out. However, I guess I did become more social, since I’m talking more about my games on social media and being a bit less of a hermit. So that’s something.
In 2024, I’m going to make an effort to finish more of the games I play. In 2023, not being able to finish games was a matter of time and it being a luxury. But that still left me feeling a little unfulfilled. I didn’t need to play 85 games last year — I did it because of FOMO. My other resolution is continue exploring new ways to deliver gaming news to all of you. I started my TikTok daily gaming news series in 2023, and I would love to keep doing that in some capacity or other.
In personal news, I’ve already started my first new game of 2024: Carol Reed’s Dead Drop. I can’t promise to try very many games I didn’t get to in 2023. But I am going to do my level best to finish and talk more about each individual game I play. There are several games coming in January that I can’t wait to play, including Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. I’m also going to try and shake this dastardly cold.
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AI-generated images have gone viral and sparked outrage among her fans on social media. Learn what happened and how the images were created.
People Can Fly has reportedly laid off over 30 developers working on an unannounced Square Enix game.
With the news that Blizzard and ESL FACEIT are preparing to launch a new esports circuit for Overwatch 2, mere months after the death of the Overwatch League, it's a good time to take stock of the entire esports scene. Things are looking slightly frantic, at least in North America. League of Legends and Rocket League are particularly messy, entering their 2024 seasons with lean budgets and major shakeups. Meanwhile, an expansion of the open-qualifiers model should provide more opportunities for everyday players to compete in Valorant, Overwatch 2, Rocket League and all manner of fighting games. Get those fingers ready, folks.
Game Pass subscribers have had plenty to celebrate in January. The service saw some heavy hitters arrive in the first half of the month, including Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and the Resident Evil 2 remake. But it’s not done yet. More games are coming to Game Pass to round out January.
Today, the organizers of the Game Developers Conference have announced the nominations for the GDC Awards 2024. To the surprise of nobody, Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 and Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom have dominated them, achieving seven nominations each.
2024 is set to be a big year for rule changes, and the transition will be a lot easier for players who get accustomed to some of the more major ones ahead of time. The fifth edition of has undergone some evolution over the years, but mostly in a carefully managed way, with more robust class options or new playable races being drip-fed across a number of books. With the advent of the supposedly perpetual One D&D, however, a sweeping overhaul is happening that could significantly alter the balance of characters or campaigns.
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As the countdown begins for Samsung Unpacked 2024, tech enthusiasts eagerly await the unveiling of Samsung's latest flagship smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S24 series. Samsung Galaxy S24 launch is scheduled for January 17 at 1 pm ET in San Jose, California, this event promises to be, not only a showcase of cutting-edge devices, but also introduce new 'Galaxy AI' features.
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The Independent Games Festival awards - aka: the only awards that are actually worth paying attention to - have announced the finalists for their 2024 cohort, and wouldn't you know it, there are lots of RPS-endorsed games in there, lemme tell ya. Cooking adventure Venba leads the pack with a total of four nominations, but it's closely followed by Cocoon, A Highland Song, Mediterranea Inferno and 1000xResist, all of which have scooped three noms apiece.
Destiny 2 had a massive sale on its DLCs, and many players grabbed the game from Epic Games for free along with a few DLCs. A sale is the best time to get into the game, as you don’t end up spending upwards of a hundred dollars to get access to all of the content. If you are a New Light in 2024 who wants to figure out the ins and outs of Destiny, our new player guide has everything you need to know about the game, especially as we hurtle towards The Final Shape this year.
Update: Sony has officially released the PS5 Slim. All the details and links you need have been added below.