2024 has been one of the most fragmented years for videogames and in hindsight I actually really liked that | Gaming

Something I’ve come to realise is that I can pinpoint a year by its one giant videogame (or two slightly smaller but still very large videogames), whether I played them or not. Last year’s was, without a doubt, Baldur’s Gate 3. Elden Ring took over everyone’s lives the year before that, while Resident Evil Village and It Takes Two were the talk of the town in 2021.

There’s something near-universally true about all of these games: People were pretty jazzed about them before they were even released. That fanfare almost always ended up continuing for months beyond launch—hell, in Baldur’s Gate 3 and Elden Ring’s case, they’re still hot topics and ripe for endless news today.

But now, in 2024? I honestly couldn’t tell you what The Big Game was. Palworld was a real flash in the pan…more

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