Our Most Wanted Games of 2024 – #50 to #46

After years spent dominating living rooms, big flat-screen televisions could start getting out of the way of the decor. That is if new see-through TV models showed off by South Korean consumer electronics giants LG and Samsung catch on. "How about a screen that gives you back your space?" an LG executive asked on stage Monday while introducing a transparent Signature OLED T planned for release later this year.

eastasiasoft will release action RPG Xuan Yuan Sword: The Gate of Firmament for PlayStation 5 in 2024, the publisher announced.

Welcome to another instalment of the Maw, our weekly live round-up of all things New and videogame-flavoured, as we continue our eternal efforts to appease the festering dark god of gossip and reportage. I asked the Maw if it had any 2024 resolutions last Friday, and it responded with the brain-splitting clamour of a million fell voices crying out in anguish. I have run this through our Chthonic Translator and the short version is that it wants to get down the gym now and then.

I don’t want to leap to hyperbole in the first week of the year, but I am quite confident in saying that The Brothers Sun has the best fight scene with men in inflatable dinosaur costumes that I’ve seen in 2024. Sure, it’s the only one I’ve seen in this or any year, and I doubt there will be another anytime soon. But that doesn’t diminish how much it kicks ass. It’s simply great to start the year with a show that capably gives me something I’ve been lacking in television for some time: a series that is just as interested in good goofs as it is killer brawls.

The early stages of running a new business is difficult, and this is no less true for game developers. Fortunately, there are programs and initiatives out there that can help give you and your new studio a leg up when it comes to overcoming the initial hurdles.

2024 is looking to be a great year for RPGs, with a strong selection of titles that show promise across different stylistic and narrative angles. RPG fans had plenty to pick from in 2023, and showed just how big the market could be for something that emphasized the depth of choices and possibilities. Games like and made a strong showing for Japanese RPGs, and registered with audiences in a way that only a minority of Soulslikes have managed.

Naraka: Bladepoint has opened its brand new season today with a new update. There’s a new melee weapon, the Heng Sword, updates to Fairyland Penglai, a brand new Battle Pass, and new limited-time events.

For the rest of the year, more Android flagships with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Dimensity 9300 will be found in a plethora of premium smartphones, but according to one tipster, companies are shifting towards a different strategy, which is equipping its less expensive handsets with the same SoCs. While this will hurt the manufacturer’s margins, it shows how eager these companies are to increase their global market share, even if the outcome negligibly rewards them.

China removed an official at a government body overseeing its press and publications regulator, five sources who were briefed on the matter said, days after Chinese gaming stocks were hit by proposed rules to curb spending on video games. Feng Shixin was removed last week from his position as head of the publishing unit of the Communist Party's Publicity Department, the sources said. The department oversees the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) which in turn regulates China's vast video games sector.

An image of the much rumoured Intel Core i9 14900KS CPU has emerged, fuelling expectations that Intel will indeed unleash this new 6.2GHz chip at CES on Monday.

The effects of increased NAND pricing by manufacturers have started translating into consumer markets, as wholesale SSD & related storage products witness price bumps.

A brand new word is ready to be solved and the January 2nd answer could cause a few players to lose their long-standing win streaks. The word itself is fairly common but it uses a few of the standard difficulty tricks that can make a word seem tougher.