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When I started writing up my shortlist of 2024 GOTY candidates earlier this autumn – in an attempt to sort through a messy mixture of widely-agreed-upon hits I still needed to play and total heart picks I intended to go to bat for – The Casting of Frank Stone easily cleared my personal top 10, quite clearly in the latter category. Admittedly, this game was never going to be a hard sell in my case....

Image: Marvel Games / Kotaku One of 2024’s biggest success stories has been Marvel Rivals, a third-person PVP shooter starring Marvel heroes and baddies. The game has already picked up over 20 million players and shows no signs of stopping. Which is cool but also very surprising! I think I speak for many of us when I ask: Weren’t we done with hero shooters? After the market was saturated with them and Overwatch 2 turned...

Because you don’t have enough new gear to grab as you battle the Illuminate, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has just revealed the game’s first ever crossover. It’s a welcome one with dormant PlayStation shooter Killzone, and the first of its gear drops is available right now. Yep, as plenty of folks continue to battle the newest threat to Super Earth, the studio’ds clearly decided that the recently released Urban Legends Warbond just isn’t enough in...

I have a vicious love-hate relationship with Pokemon TCG Pocket. It is, without a doubt, my favourite mobile game released this year. It is a wonderful game, taking a snapshot out of the physical TCG and morphing it into this easy to endearing virtual collectathon. It has, also, manifested a side of me I thought died once I turned 21 years old. An angrier me, with a visceral hatred for strangers around the world. Pokemon...