The biggest gaming news of 2024: Concord flops, Palworld vs Nintendo, and more

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Now, Noie continues, the all-important playoff game seems much less important. In New Orleans to cover tonight’s Sugar Bowl, South Bend Tribune reporter Tom Noie was stunned to see flashing lights and emergency vehicles outside his hotel room window before sunrise. “We are horrified and saddened by the senseless act of violence that occurred in the early hours of New Year’s Day in New Orleans,” said a statement from the University of Georgia.

The United States and Czechia will face off  Saturday in the 2025 World Junior Championship semifinals, bringing each country one step closer to winning the WJC title. Georgia did not play last week after beating Texas to win the SEC Championship game on Dec. 7. For being one of the four favorite games play highest-ranked conference champions, the Bulldogs earned a first-round bye.

That list could go on and on, back and back to the era of Sega Does What Nintendon’t. Each was dominant in gaming culture until it wasn’t, when a vibe shift came to sweep us along to the new thing. Stay up-to-date on the latest gaming news for Nintendo Switch, PS5, PS4, Mobile and PC games. Looking back at some of the highly rated games released in 2024, Balatro developer lists the titles that they liked the most. As had been teased, the singer was encased in a block of ice, only to be released at 3PM ET this afternoon.

A hugely popular survival game is rumored to be receiving a possibly enhanced port on the Nintendo Switch’s successor when the console is unveiled. Players in the Marvel Rivals player community speak out, requesting that the game’s character ban system be available at every rank. A Star Wars show that’s set during the same era as the KOTOR games hasn’t been forgotten about, according to an industry insider. I’m not one of the people who watches YouTube or TikTok videos while some endless runner game scrolls by, but if you are, this YouTube Playables feature is for you. It’s priced at around $78 and is available in four colors including black, yellow, white, and an SNES-inspired gray option.

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  • Speaking to NBC’s Lester Holt, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said she would postpone the Sugar Bowl again, until Friday, if the decision was in her hands.
  • Preorders for the GBA SP-style handheld that upgrades the Anbernic RG35XXSP with a pair of analog joysticks started today, as spotted by Retro Dodo.
  • The death animations are silly and shown as someone getting stabbed in the back or having their neck snapped.
  • When he’s not obsessively optimizing and re-optimizing a tangle of conveyor belts in Satisfactory (it’s really becoming a problem), he’s probably playing a 20-year-old Final Fantasy or some opaque ASCII roguelike.
  • Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter and Tested before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014.

Police found a firearm, believed to have been 3D-printed, and a handwritten document on Mangione “that speaks to both his motivation and mindset,” New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference. Mangione, 26, was arrested Monday morning in a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after an employee spotted him. “Among Us” is a child-friendly whodunnit game in which a group of friends run around several space station-like maps. The “crewmates,” who are simply drawn, cartoonish-looking astronauts, run around the ship and complete tasks.

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“University personnel are working to determine if any UGA students, faculty, staff, alumni or fans were among the victims.” They were supposed to play one, a big one, New Year’s Day night at the Superdome between Notre Dame and Georgia. Speaking to NBC’s Lester Holt, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said she would postpone the Sugar Bowl again, until Friday, if the decision was in her hands. The Discord group was one way to stay connected, Romero said, but members began to go their separate ways as they got full-time jobs or embarked on long trips. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved,” wrote Nino Mangione, a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates. Authorities in Pennsylvania charged Mangione with carrying firearms without a license, forgery, tampering with records or identification, possessing instruments of crime and providing false identification to police.

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Throughout 2024, companies like Sony Interactive Entertainment, EA, Riot Games, Embracer Group, and more laid off developers, shut down studios, and canceled video games in development. “Survive until 2025” currently seems to be the mentality of many in the video game industry; hopefully, things get better next year rather than getting worse. The Verge’s gaming section brings the latest video game news, reviews of the most exciting releases, and interviews with the industry’s biggest names. We cover everything from PlayStation and Xbox blockbusters, to quirky Nintendo games, to the cool indie gems on PC and Android that you might otherwise miss. Stockton completed 12 of 16 pass attempts for 71 yards and an interception after replacing Beck in the SEC title game. Running back Trevor Etienne rushed for 94 yards and two touchdowns to help lead Georgia’s offensive attack.

Georgia’s defensive front has asserted itself with 15 sacks over the last four games and figure to have the advantage in this one. The Bulldogs should slow the Irish run game just enough to take the pressure off a Gunner Stockton-led offense to pull out a close victory. “We are staffing up at the same level, if not, what we were preparing for the Super Bowl,” Kirkpatrick told NBC’s Today Show.

Plus, PS5 Pro does not come with a disc drive or stand for the console. Considering that it is already $200 more expensive than a regular PS5, those were some pretty massive caveats PlayStation fans had to deal with. The PS5 Pro still stands as the biggest gaming hardware release of 2024, considering we did not get a new Nintendo console. Its lofty price tag is making us start to think about how much Nintendo’s Switch successor and future PlayStation and Xbox consoles will cost, too.

We can keep on like this; we’ll lose more talent, sure, but there will always be new bodies for the grist mill. But it seems to me that maybe in 2025, maybe in 2026, enough people are going to be well and truly sick enough of all that to start turning the wheel just a few degrees. We wrote about the dangers of the unlimited content churn in 2019 and have expressed our exhaustion with live service games more than a few times; we felt it at the end of 2023, and still feel it at the end of 2024. You could point to that as proof that 2025 will just be more of the same.

New Orleans police superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said hundreds of local, federal and military police will enhance the Sugar Bowl security and citywide. Freshman punter Miller is expected to get the nod to replace injured Brett Thorson. As expected, Roderick Robinson and Branson Robinson aren’t dressed out and won’t play. Roderick Robinson is standing by the running backs warming up with a jersey and sweats and watching. Gunner Stockton’s 66-yard completion to Arian Smith set it up, but Georgia got a sideline interference penalty to shave 15 yards off that gain. Riley Leonard hit Beaux Collins on a 13-yard touchdown over the middle and leads 13-3 with 27 seconds to go in the half.