David Carcasole

Another category where there was a clear winner. Jimbo has the hearts and minds of the PSU staff locked up, and it’s such a mechanically sound game that it’s hardly a surprise Balatro has taken home our pick for Best Strategy game. It’s one of the best games in 2024 and deserves all of its flowers.

If you’ve played Balatro, you’d know that the game includes poker hands, because they are the hands you can play in order to score points, and playing hands specific to the Joker cards you have active can not only help you succeed, but win your whole run. Playing nothing but pairs, for example, can win you a whole run.

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance's online servers are being shut down along with the game being delisted in February 2025, check out the details here.

Don’t get too excited old-school PlayStation heads. There isn’t a new Killzone game in the works (that we know of) or anything else to do with the franchise coming up.

Amazon Prime's show Secret Level has been renewed for a Season 2, it's been announced, check out the details for yourself here.

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth was originally going to have episodic story DLCs, until the team decided against it to spend more time on the third game.

Mark Cerny discusses how building PSSR was a future-proofing investment with ray tracing and machine learning as key to the future of PlayStation consoles.

Mark Cerny re-affirmed that Sony is still committed to bigger generational leaps in console technology, even while doing mid-gen refreshes like the PS5 Pro.

There was a lot of discussion around the PS5 Pro and the thinking that went into its hardware and software improvements today from console architect Mark Cerny, who gave a presentation about the aforementioned topics and did interviews with press like Digital Foundry.

As he always does post-show, The Game Awards creator and host Geoff Keighley reported that this year’s 10th anniversary show was the biggest in Game Awards history.