2024 News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

January has almost finished, and 2024 has already started dishing out the horror flicks. This past month saw the release of, a film about a ghostly pool, and the political slasher. However, the year has only just begun, and there are countless other horror flicks heading their way into theaters soon.

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Playing Monopoly Go can be a drag if you don’t have enough dice rolls. Thankfully, the studio distributes codes to the community through social channels. Here’s a recap so you don’t have to go hunting everywhere!

Arthur Lee (AKA Mr. Podunkian), a game developer who previously worked on the 1.4 and 1.5 updates for ConcernedApe’s farming sim Stardew Valley, has unveiled the title and planned release window of his own urban life sim game. 

It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups.

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There are some great gaming PCs out there, but only a select few can make it among the list of the best gaming desktops. We've reviewed dozens of gaming PCs from brands like Lenovo, Alienware, Acer, and Origin, and we're here to rank our favorite ones.

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January 26th’s answer is probably going to cause some players to lose their daily streak if they aren’t careful with their first few attempts. The answer contains a repeating letter that also happens to be a vowel. Since there’s a repeating vowel, finding their correct positions is more challenging unless you use some relevant hints.

January 26th has a brand new puzzle to solve and today's answers shouldn't be too difficult for most players. The Friday groupings aren't as extreme as they have been for the past few days and at least two categories in today's game should come fairly easily.

Publisher JanduSoft and developer Mad Gear Games will release side-scrolling action platformer Kemono Heroes for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in Q3 2024, the companies announced.

Fortnite will return to iOS devices in 2024, but only in European Union countries. This is thanks to a new EU law known as the Digital Markets Act, which is set to take effect in March. Fortnite's iOS release in the EU could follow shortly after.

It's a little bit later in the month than usual, but Marvel Comics has finally dropped its full April 2024 solicitations, including several big new debuts, and the launch of the much-hyped Blood Hunt event.

No matter what industry you work in, there is always a chance for layoffs. In many ways, it’s one of the biggest things people fear. After all, they could be happy and think they have a long-term solution to their money problems one day, and then the next day comes, and they’re told it’s their last day at work due to “corporate changes,” or “cost-saving moves” or some words of the like. One might feel that the Video Game Industry, with its various successful studios and titles, would be immune from this. But as the website Video Game Layoffs has noted, that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

is a living game, meaning that it grows and changes as time passes, and that includes the ever-useful Player's Handbook. Whether that is from basic to to third, fourth, or fifth edition, the game has never stayed the same for long. The last full edition of, 5e, was released in 2014 after being playtested under the name D&D Next.

Publisher JanduSoft and developer Mad Gear Games will release side-scrolling action platformer Kemono Heroes for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in Q2 2024, the companies announced.

The number of games industry job losses announced in January is already more than half the total job losses in the entirety of 2023.

GamesRadar is delighted to confirm our first flagship games showcase of 2024, the Future Games Show Spring Showcase, which will be broadcast on Thursday, March 21.

The newest is available to be solved and today's answers could ruin a few long-standing win-streaks. Many of today's words can fit into multiple categories and with only four mistakes available, it's not always easy to score a full win.

Could a ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot be on the cards for Apple? A new report suggests so! The Cupertino-based tech giant has long been reported to be working on AI tech that it could incorporate into its suite of products such as the iPhone. A report last year even stated that Apple was developing its Large Language Model (LLM), dubbed as AppleGPT. Now, it is being suggested the tech giant will likely make an AI push this year with iOS 18 featuring the next-generation Siri and it will be powered by an AI chatbot. Know what's coming.

Publisher WhisperGames has announced that is teaming up with solo developer Nameless Sword Studio to release a new turn-based RPG on PC and Nintendo Switch. The game, titled The Nameless: Slay Dragon, is slated for release on PC in Q2 2024, with the Nintendo Switch release planned for a later date. Check out the teaser trailer below.

To solve January 24th’s answer, you might need to be a bit careful as there are many words that have a similar spelling. You might waste three or more attempts just to figure out the answer. This might get too close for comfort, so you should use some relevant hints or a different mode.

Blizzard has announced hotfixes for today which includes nerfs to Murozond's Rise and a fix for Demonlogy's Imps pulling distant targets.

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.

Inti Creates has released a single screenshot of a new title it plans to announce at PAX East 2024, which will run from March 21 to 24 at Boston Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. It will also be playable at the event.

Despite being over 12 years old, remains one of the most popular RPGs and continues to enjoy a massive player base. However, along with the epic quests and classic dialogue, there are more than a fair few bug and glitches. While some of these have been fixed by Bethesda over the years, there are still a surprising amount that remain, much to the annoyance and amusement of players.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Heading into 2024, we knew of a couple of heavy hitter MMOs coming out with their next expansions. From Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail this summer, to World of Warcraft launching two expansions, one for each Classic and Retail, the year was already looking pretty meaty for MMO fans.

Yesterday, the New York Videogame Critics Circle (NYVGCC) announced the winners of the 13th annual New York Game Awards in a dedicated ceremony streamed live from the SVA Theatre, with Baldur's Gate 3 once again emerging as the big winner.

The 13th annual New York Game Awards took place yesterday, with Baldur's Gate 3 taking the top prize of Game of the Year.

January 24th’s answer can be challenging to solve if you use the same starting words every day. You might be able to figure out the correct spots for a few letters, but it might not be enough to solve the answer. However, if you use a different mode and some hints, you might be able to keep your daily streak.

A brand new collection of is available and there are only a few tricky groupings in today's game. Luckily with a game like this, being able to score the first couple groups makes the other two much easier.

Let's be real: 2023's sheer quantity and quality of game releases are likely to remain unmatched for a long time, so 2024's most anticipated games list might look a bit puny by direct comparison. However, despite some lingering unknowns (will Dragon Age: Dreadwolf launch this year after the planned Summer reveal? Could Metroid Prime 4 be released as a Nintendo Switch 2 launch title?), even if nothing else happens, the calendar already offers a solid schedule of new games to look forward to. Here's our Top 10 most anticipated games of 2024.

Blizzard has announced hotfixes for today which includes nerfs to Murazond's Rise and a fix for Demonlogy's Imps pulling distant targets.

Blizzard has significantly nerfed Murozond's Rise on the Weekly Reset!

The full list of nominees for the upcoming 96th annual Academy Awards was officially announced this morning, Tuesday, January 23, 2024.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are releasing a new mass outbreak event, giving players a chance to get their hands on some Pokemon which are quite hard to find in the wild. It's been quite an eventful month for the games, with the developers releasing the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Epilogue DLC, alongside a new 7-star Tera Raid featuring Blaziken.

Blizzard has significantly nerfed Murazond's Rise on the Weekly Reset!

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hearthstone esports returns this February! As we head into Hearthstone’s 10-year anniversary, we’re refocusing Hearthstone esports to be all about our core esports experience, with three major Standard events throughout the year: two Masters Tour seasonal championships, leading into the 2024 World Championship!

It’s been an extremely long time coming, but Project Zomboid‘s promising Build 42 update appears to finally be coming along. The developer The Indie Stone has now officially confirmed on Twitter: Build 42 is due to release sometime in 2024.

brings a new modern twist to the classic board game, and you can get your hands on lots of free dice rolls from links in January 2024. There have been a host of Monopoly titles over the years, including one of the best video games based on a board game,. However, provides a different take on the game, allowing players to pick up and play. You need dice rolls to be able to play so it is vital to get your hands on as many as possible.

The global games market is expected to generate $189.3 billion in 2024, Newzoo estimated in its latest report.

The newest is ready to be solved and January 23rd's answers are a great mix of misdirections and tough category choices. If you find yourself stuck we've got the daily categories list as well as the fully spoiled answer groupings below.

January 23rd’s answer could cause many players to lose their daily streak as the solution contains a repeating letter. Figuring out the correct positions of repeating letters can be quite confusing as Wordle does not give specific hints about it. Therefore, it would be prudent not to use random guesses in your first few attempts.

Aksys Games will host All Aksys 2024 on February 1 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET, the company announced. You will be able to watch it on Twitch.

2024 might be the Academy Awards’ biggest year in ages. The Oscar nominations, set for announcement on Tuesday, Jan. 23, are primed to honor highly regarded films from around the world, performances that premiered in theaters and on streaming, and a few of the biggest movies of the year — including the Barbenheimer double feature of Oppenheimerand Barbie. It’s been a slow crawl back from the hazy pandemic era where movies that kinda sorta came out in time won Best Picture, but here we are, with a set of nomations that stands to be both predictable and electrifying.

Games industry leaders have suggested that widespread job losses across the market last year will continue throughout 2024 and likely stretch into next year too.

 Old School RuneScape’s 2024 roadmap is here, following the recent Winter Summit. The team has a lot on the way, with Varlamore opening up in March, a revamped Defender of Varrock and While Guthix Sleeps,  updates on sailing, Wilderness, and more

Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2024 has wrapped after a nonstop weeklong speedrunning marathon. This year’s charity raised over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Other highlights included four broken world records and a dog named Peanut Butter beating the oddball NES classic Gyromite.

Each week we’ll look ahead to what’s in store for World of Warcraft, share the latest news, and keep you in the know byte by byte. This week get the Grim Campfire Toy by watching your favorite World of Warcraft streamers.

Blizzard has announced This Week in WoW which includes no 10.2.6 news just yet.

After a successful first outing, RPS Game Club is returning for another year of gaming show-and-tells, and this time, we're publishing the schedule in advance so you know exactly what's coming up and when. Handy, say, if you want to keep an eye on certain sale prices for games you've got your eye on, or you want to clear your calendar so you can join us for our end-of-month liveblog session where we all get together book club-style to talk about the month's pick. Each member of the RPS Treehouse is getting involved this year as well, so read on below to find out what's on the Club docket.

Strategy and simulation games remain my go-to genres whenever I pick up the latest Atari console or turn on my rig to see the Windows XP startup. The reason is and always will be simple: I like to keep my brain ticking along, slightly delaying the decay that would lead to dementia. I am in my mid-thirties now; it's just a ticking time bomb; were this the middle ages, I would be the village elder. So, I will stave off this decay for another year with multiple roles of general, businessman, or village elder.

On January 23, viewers and fans of comedian Kevin James can catch him in his first comedy special Kevin James: Irregardless. This one-hour special will premiere in over 240 countries and territories. In this special, Kevin James will cover a wide range of topics such as marriage, parenting, and getting older in an unfiltered manner.

Come summer of 2024, Kakao Games will be dropping a new MMORPG on Android, iOS and PC. The title in question is ArcheAge: War, the next chapter in the ArcheAge series. It’s set to pick up where the popular PC game left off.

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A PlayStation developer has revealed that the company is planning a large array of PC ports of their top games later in the year.

As W.H. Auden once wrote: “our apparatniks will continue making / the usual squalid mess called History: / all we can pray for is that Videogame News Writers may still appear to blithe it.” Welcome one and all to another week of addled product journalism care of your ever-salivating host, the Maw, ravenous hype god and certainly not a silly metaphor I’ve come up with to make my job sound grander than it should be.

The newest puzzle is available from the games section and today's answers shouldn't be too difficult for most fans of the word-grouping game. Unlike other days many of today's seem to make sense right away and most word groups don't seem to mix well with the other categories, making today's answers a bit easier than most.

A new is available to solve and today's answer isn't the most common word, but probably won't cause too much trouble for most players. Despite its uncommon nature the letters themselves are very common so almost any decent starting word will lock in a few letters for the next attempts.

As per the details issued by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the asteroid has been designated as Asteroid 2024 BM. This asteroid is expected to pass Earth at a distance of approximately 3 million kilometers today, January 22. It is already travelling towards Earth in its orbit at 21511 kilometers per hour which is almost as fast as Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)! Is the asteroid dangerous? Check details.

A Lego set based on The Great Deku Tree from The Legend of Zelda could be released later this year.

AI Limit is an upcoming action-roleplaying game that mixes Soulslike combat with Nier Automata's slick animation - and it could have some of the coolest boss battles of the year based on early looks. 

The 2024 list of our most anticipated multiplayer games is hugely dominated by the survival genre, which is bleeding into all kinds of franchises and settings nowadays. It's worth noting that we focused on brand new titles here; for the upcoming expansions and DLCs to existing multiplayer games, head to this list.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate added additional perks for subscribers to redeem. The perks cover a wide variety of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate titles, so users should consider checking them out to see if any of their favorite games are included.

Members in the Extra and Premium tiers of PlayStation Plus will lose access to 10 games in February 2024. PS Plus Extra subscribers can play a number of different games as a part of their subscription service, with Premium users getting some additional benefits on top.

January 20th’s answer is not particularly hard to solve if you manage to discover the correct positions of the two vowels. The answer is used quite commonly in the daily lexicon, but there is still a chance that you might waste your attempts on random guesses. To prevent losing your daily streak, using relevant hints or a different mode would be ideal.

2024 looks fairly similar to last year for shooter games fans in that there are very few big names on the list. We still don't know exactly what id Software and The Coalition are doing, while DICE's next Battlefield isn't launching any time soon. There will be a new Call of Duty game, of course, but it's hard to get too excited about it after Modern Warfare III.

Capcom has revealed its third post-launch DLC fighter for Street Fighter 6, Ed, set to make his arrival sometime in February. Street Fighter 6 has received exceptionally high praise from the fighting game community after its hugely successful June 2023 launch. The title, which incorporated its first-ever RPG-style single-player World Tour mode, went on to win Best Fighting Game at the 2023 Game Awards over its fierce rival, Mortal Kombat 1.

As part of Xbox’s Developer Direct, Square Enix Ltd. shared exciting details about Visions of Mana™, marking the first mainline entry in the Mana series in over 15 years. During the developer showcase, Mana Series Producer Masaru Oyamada and Mana Series Creator Koichi Ishii introduced players to the reimagined world of Mana. They provided insights into the game’s development process and showcased its action-packed gameplay. Scheduled for a Summer 2024 release, Visions of Mana will be available on PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PC via STEAM®.

The official Dragon Ball Games Twitter account has revealed when we're going to be getting our next look at Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero and confirmed a livestream will take place so everyone can see the new trailer.

The clock is ticking as Amazon's Great Republic Day Sale is wrapping up tonight, and the discounts are incredible! Whether you're looking for a new phone, laptop, or anything else, Amazon has got you covered. They have amazing deals on gadgets, home appliances, fashion, TVs, laptops, phones, and soundbars- all with discounts up to 60 percent. Don't miss these fantastic deals! Plus, enjoy free shipping on many items, special offers for Amazon Prime members, and more. Act fast before this opportunity slips away.

Amazon Sale 2024: The Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2024 is still on, and it's the perfect time to save money on things like smartphones, cameras, refrigerators, and more. We all enjoy capturing special moments with our loved ones to create lasting memories. Whether it's a quick snap or a carefully composed photo, these images help us relive those cherished times.

Stay up to date with World of Warcraft when you join us each week as we round up some of the latest top blue posts and discussions.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Xbox has long struggled with consistency and maintaining a steady stream of exclusives. Some years would be chock-full of exciting new games, while others were barren wastelands outside of a couple of smaller releases. After a turnaround in 2023, Xbox’s 2024 first-party game lineup is looking to be its most compelling in years. That’s thanks to a successful Developer_Direct showcase that set Xbox on the right track this week.

Let’s start this article with a blunt statement: Microsoft is not doing the best right now when you look at its sales of the Xbox Series X/S or even some of the games on its platforms. It’s being blown away by the PlayStation 5, which it launched alongside, and is still being dominated by the Nintendo Switch despite it being seven years old! Microsoft has tried to “stem the tide” in certain ways, like by pushing the Xbox Game Pass, but even that is starting to show flaws. But its gamers are trying to hold onto hope, including by praising the console’s first-party titles coming in 2024.

Solo Blox Leveling took me on a journey through a vast anime-inspired city. Exploring every alley, meeting different characters, and solving quests occupied me for hours. The main star of the show is, of course, combat, although it can be challenging to stay on top.

Palworld's developer knows it's game servers are unstable right now, but it's actively working on a fix.