Category:Games released in 2024

Things start out slowly for gaming once again as 2024 begins. Nintendo's major releases for the Switch wind down as they gear up for their next console; only a few wholly original new games come out, including Princess Peach: Showtime!, a stageplay-styled game featuring Princess Peach in the starring role for the first time since Super Princess Peach on the Nintendo DS, Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, a brand-new entry in the long dormant adventure game series, and Mario & Luigi: Brothership, the first Mario & Luigi game since AlphaDream's closure in 2019. Most of their other titles are remakes of existing games, including the much-anticipated Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Sony's PlayStation 5 gets a critically acclaimed exclusive in Astro Bot, and later a new model emphasizing further attention to graphical detail with the $699.99 PlayStation 5 Pro (vertical stand and disc drive sold separately). In October, 343 Industries would rebrand as Halo Studios, marking the start of a new era for Halo.

This would be another year where things would come to an end: Nintendo controversially cuts the cord on the 3DS and Wii U Wi-Fi services in April, thus ending Nintendo Network as a whole, while Microsoft closes down the Xbox 360 Store and Marketplace in July after nearly two decades of service. Nintendo also threatens piracy and puts an end to the Citra emulator for Nintendo 3DS and both the Yuzu and RyujinX emulators for Nintendo Switch. GameStop's Game Informer, the longest-running video gaming magazine, ceases publication. Conversely, Sony’s ambitious live service game Concord comes out in August and infamously goes kaput almost immediately, discontinuing sales and going offline a mere two weeks later. The biggest website RomHacking that improves games in terms of Graphics, Sounds, Levels, Text and Gameplay ends its activities.

Sega celebrates the Year of Shadow (not unlike Nintendo with a certain green plumber 11 years prior), with releases including a brand-new story featuring the character that's attached to a remaster of 2011's fan-favorite Sonic Generations. In addition to this story utilizing characters from Shadow the Hedgehog, most notably Black Doom, DLC tying into Paramount Pictures' Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is also set to launch shortly before that film's release, which just like the film will star Keanu Reeves as Shadow.