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Games of the Year 2024, in context - Etch As 2024 draws to a close, the industry has begun to reflect on the past twelve months, and which games have made the biggest impact this year.

Happy New Year! As we kick off 2025, let's have one last look back at 2024, shall we? Here are the games that stuck with us, and what they say about our industry.

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Games of the Year 2024, in context - Etch As 2024 draws to a close, the industry has begun to reflect on the past twelve months, and which games have made the biggest impact this year.

Today we're sharing a handful of titles that stood out to us in 2024. And crucially, we’re also putting them into context. What can we learn from these games? What do they say about where we, as an industry, are headed? Read it now!

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Happy Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Early Access day, to those of you who celebrate.

How are you finding Stalker? It looks like a really true continuation of what everyone loved about the first game!

What we've been playing this week:

- Dungeons of Hinterberg
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Metaphor: Refantazio

What games are you playing this December?

With Black Friday looming, what games and gadgets are on your wishlist?

What are game developers getting out of Bluesky? Game developers are among the millions users leaving X (formerly Twitter) and signing up for Bluesky. What are they getting out of the platform?

Game developers are among the millions of users leaving X and signing up for Bluesky.

X had previously been a critical hub for devs to market their games, network, and share creative ideas.

Many hope Bluesky will recreate that experience, minus the negatives

There's no community quite like the No Man's Sky community.

After all this time, to still be getting nominated for Best Community Support at The Game Awards is absolutely incredible.

Congratulations to Hello Games!

Directive 8020 In this sci-fi survival horror, you must fight to survive as an alien infiltrates your ship… and your crewmates! In space, death takes many forms

We're a little late on this, but congratulations to our friends at
@supermassivegames.bsky.social on the reveal of Directive 8020!

It was a pleasure to help unveil this new sci-fi horror experience. Check it out below to sign up for updates!

directive8020.com

Hi Bluesky!

We fixed our Deck Blue authentication so we're back, just in time to miss the gigantic influx of new users 😂 Is this thing still on? Does anyone here like videogames? Or marketing?

Adam Burt (@newnab) on Threads For all the Gamer Threads - here's your February roundup, a selection of the biggest stories from the videogames industry this past month, collated by me and my colleagues at @etchplay. Let's get...

Me and my colleagues at @etchplay.bsky.social have collated and rounded up some of the biggest news stories in gaming for February. Find it all on Threads here: www.threads.net/@newnab/post...

Look out for Adam and say hi if you see him!

Bluesky is now open! Although, frankly, if you wanted an invite before now, you're probably already here, right?

Welcome to any new folk! We're Etch Play. We do marketing for games. And we post stuff very loosely related to that.

Starfield is reportedly coming to PS5, along with other Xbox exclusives | VGC Microsoft’s gaming leadership have reportedly decided to release more games on rival…

If rumours are to be believed, we could be about to see an absolutely seismic shift in the games console market.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/starfie...

Ben Joy on LinkedIn: Well, there's certainly been a lot going on in the world of video games… Well, there's certainly been a lot going on in the world of video games this month. Some good, unfortunately plenty bad. We asked the Etch Play team what…

We asked the team to select some of the biggest news stories in the games industry this month. See them all here:

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We want to say a huge congratulations to our friends at Keen Games for the massively successful Early Access launch of Enshrouded! Have you taken on the Shroud yet? Embervale awaits! 👀⚔

Media Molecule | The Home of Creativity and Innovation Discover the world of Media Molecule, where creativity and innovation come together to create unique gaming experiences. Explore our games, tools, careers and more.

We loved working with Media Molecule on a fresh new-look website, reflective of their unique and beloved brand.

www.mediamolecule.com

Stainless Games | Indie Game Developer Stainless Games is an indie game developer. Our passionate teams craft sector-leading titles. Creating new worlds & inspiring millions. Join us?

We’re proud to have worked on the new website for Stainless Games, which showcases their portfolio, storied history, and culture in a whole new way.

www.stainlessgames.com

Happy 2024! 👋

We look forward to reading all the usual annual discourse about videogames here this year 😂 And hopefully, sharing some more of the great work that we've been doing with talented studios and publishers from across the world!

Arctic Theory | We Create Immersive MMO Gaming Experiences We are reshaping the landscape of MMO video games. Arctic Theory creates vast worlds and immersive experiences for players to explore.

We helped Arctic Theory with their incredible new branding and website, built with future growth in mind

arctictheory.com

Light No Fire – a fantasy game from the makers of No Man’s Sky From the makers of No Man’s Sky, Light No Fire is a game about adventure, building, survival and exploration together. Set on a fantasy planet the size of Earth.

Absolutely thrilled to help reveal Light No Fire - the incredible planet-sized fantasy game from our talented friends at Hello Games! Check out the website below!

lightnofire.com

E3 is officially dead, according to an official social media account for the show.

The event previously struggled to adapt to the pandemic, and also to keep up with general industry trends, which saw many big publishers start hosting their own events.

Song: Love Is A Long RoadArtist: Tom PettyWritten by Thomas Earl Petty and Michael W. CampbellPublished by Universal Music Works on behalf of Wild Gator Musi... Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1

The trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI has arrived, after briefly leaking on social media.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZ...

The Future Starts Now: Gaming trends to look out for in 2024 As the year draws to a close, we're reflecting on 2023 and looking ahead to the next twelve months for the games industry

We've been looking back at 2023, and looking ahead at 2024. Read all about it in our new blog post!

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Xbox Series X is down to £359 in the UK - that's the best Black Friday deal we've seen so far today. What deals have you found on gaming kit so far?

We missed the Xbox 360's 18th birthday yesterday... Think it's too late to say it now? Probably too late, right?

One of the all time great games consoles.

Games people... What would you say are the biggest industry trends we're seeing as we move towards 2024?

Rockstar Plans to Announce Much Anticipated ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to people familiar with its plans...

BREAKING: Rockstar plans to announce Grand Theft Auto VI as early as this week and will release a trailer in December, sources tell Bloomberg News. The most anticipated video game on the planet will soon be revealed: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nintendo raises profit forecast to $2.8bn as Zelda shifts close to 20m units Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nintendo has increased its profit forecast…

Fun facts for Nintendo's financials:
- Profit forecast raised to $2.8bn
- Zelda TOTK sold 19.5m, already a Top 10 Switch game
- Mobile/IP sales up 133% thanks to Mario movie
- 16 games sold more than 1m units Apr-Sep (incl. third party)

Full report here:

Guerrilla Games We are Guerrilla, the studio behind the critically acclaimed Killzone and Horizon franchises. Founded in 2000 and based in Amsterdam, we're one of Europe's leading game development companies.

We're really proud to work with our friends at Guerrilla, supporting them with studio communications strategy, re-platforming the Guerrilla site, and getting them set up with robust cloud infrastructure.

www.guerrilla-games.com