Shacknews Best Early Access Game of 2024 – Path of Exile 2
It only took a few weeks for Path of Exile 2 to leave a lasting impression on us.
Shacknews Best Cozy Game of 2024 – Little Kitty, Big City
Double Dagger Studio made all of our worries disappear ever-so-briefly with its tale of an adorable lost kitty in a giant metropolis.
Shacknews Best Comeback of 2024 – EA Sports College Football 25
Electronic Arts proves that it's still capable of creating an excellent football video game.
Shacknews Best Strand Game of 2024 – The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
This year's Legend of Zelda had us piece a broken world back together and unite its people against a mysterious evil.
Shacknews Outstanding Achievement in Accessibility 2024 – Tekken 8
For all of its innovations in easy-access, training, and alternative control styles, Tekken 8 may be the most accessible fighting game at all levels
Shacknews Best Trendsetter of 2024 – Things Running Doom
From Alarmo to gut bacteria, the trend of getting Doom running on everything is one of the hottest of 2024.
Shacknews Best Hardware of 2024 – Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo
There are few companies better than Nintendo when they decide to get weird.
Shacknews Esports Hero of 2024 – Victor ‘Punk’ Woodley
Against a pool of over 5,000 competitors and some of the fiercest Street Fighter 6 players in the world, Punk won on the grandest FGC stage of all.
Variety Hours @ Shacknews: Finding and fighting the Daoist in Black Myth: Wukong
We encountered the Daoist after beating Yellow Loong, but now we need to track him down again.
Shacknews Hall of Fame: Class of 2024
The Shacknews Hall of Fame Class of 2024 celebrates one of the industry's most beloved consoles as well as a host of people, technology, and games that defined 1999.