Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative for Switch launch March 28, 2024

Ubisoft’s Project U will have a closed test for PC, starting on February 1st at 4 PM CET and ending on February 6th at 9 AM CET. Registrations are open until January 25th, 2 PM CET, for the session-based co-op shooter, which sees players battling waves of machines.

Guildford.Games is returning next month. The event is free to attend and is sponsored by Hello Games, Criterion Software, Supermassive Games, Sledgehammer Games, and many more studios with offices in the UK region.

Vertical scrolling shoot ’em up TriggerHeart EXELICA will launch for Switch in the west in 2024, developer Cosmo Machia announced. Red Art Games will distribute the physical release in both North America and Europe.

WiZmans World Re:Try will launch for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch on May 30 in Japan, followed by Xbox One and PC via Steam later in 2024, publisher City Connection announced.

After the packed year that was 2023, it feels like 2024 may be a bit more of a bridge year, although there’s still plenty for the action fan to look forward to over the next 12 months. A lot of this year’s action games are going big, with Rise of the Ronin and Star Wars Outlaws being full open world, and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II at the very least being much larger than its predecessor (Ninja Theory hasn’t confirmed whether they’re going outright open-world yet). Certainly, everything on this list is pushing the technical bar hard, whether it be the dizzying action of Stellar Blade or the UE5 visuals of Metal Gear Solid Delta. Here are Wccftech’s top 5 action games you’ll be battling through in 2024.

At the end of 2023, we saw best movies of the year lists from almost anyone with a Letterboxd account, but one movie lover is a little late to the game in posting their favorites. Video game creator Hideo Kojima, and his picks are a little interesting, to say the least. 

Xbox is kicking off 2024 with a Developer Direct showcase, and it looks like hotly anticipated Obsidian RPG Avowed will make an appearance alongside long-awaited sequel Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2. Not only that, we'll finally see more of MachineGames' Indiana Jones game, which has been radio silent for ages. 

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.

Publisher eastasiasoft and developer Idea Factory have announced Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom, a remastered compilation of Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms and Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds for Switch. It will launch in 2024.

At CES 2024, NVIDIA announced several new games and features coming to its GeForce NOW cloud platform. First and foremost, following the addition of Call of Duty, GFN users can look forward to being able to play Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 soon, thanks to the agreement with Microsoft.

Side-scrolling puzzle action game Gift will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC via Steam on May 9, publisher Bushiroad Games and developers Toydium and Million Edge announced. It will cost 3,520 yen in Japan. It will support English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Russian language options.

The will be getting a game-changing new expansion in a couple of months, with the introduction of, which will add powerful new cards to the experience. Following the typical schedule of new sets every few months, the next expansion will arrive after the set, which releases at the end of January 2024. Whereas the set features many of the shiny variants of cards, appears to be focusing more on Paradox Pokémon and some extra powerful cards.