All Articles about 2024 TechRaptor Awards

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Joe Allen's Top 6 Games of 2024

There are many ways in which 2024 has been, to put it mildly, a rough year, and our industry hasn't exactly been faring well. Amid mass layoffs, C-suite executives pocketing embarrassing amounts of…

January 17, 2025 | 12:00 EST

Robert Scarpinito's Top 8 Games of 2024
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Robert Scarpinito's Top 8 Games of 2024

While there were a ton of great games in 2024, this was the year I found myself playing less than previous years. In my personal life, I've gotten far more invested in live music and found less time…

January 17, 2025 | 12:00 EST

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2024 TechRaptor Awards - Game of the Year

2024 was a stellar year for games, with a ton of standout releases. You had indie games made by small teams dominate the industry, as well as AAA games polished to a high sheen. So many genres had…

January 17, 2025 | 09:00 EST

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2024 TechRaptor Awards - Indie Game of the Year

AAA games feel like what we gravitate to when we want our mind blown or absolutely saturated in something, whether that's an insanely detailed world or crazy action. Indie games have a much wider…

January 16, 2025 | 09:00 EST

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2024 TechRaptor Awards - Best Evolving Game

"Live service" feels like a red flag when a game is described as one, but there are a lot of games that are really great at creating long-lasting communities. Some games on our list of nominees this…

January 15, 2025 | 09:00 EST

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2024 TechRaptor Awards - Best Expansion/DLC

We all love a little more of a good thing, and that's exactly what expansions and DLC to some beloved favorites do. Sometimes, it's a lot more of a great thing, which is pretty awesome, too.  Here…

January 15, 2025 | 08:00 EST

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2024 TechRaptor Awards - Best Visual Design

Pixels sure looked good in 2024, didn't they? We've been a few years removed from all of AAA just having to focus on realism in graphics, and the results of that have been awesome. The art direction…

January 14, 2025 | 12:18 EST

Five games featured in a header image for the Best Soundtrack Award for the 2024 TechRaptor Awards.

2024 TechRaptor Awards - Best Soundtrack

The amount of music made for games is quite staggering. Even better, the sheer variety in genre, style, and intention of music can be hugely different in just one game. From standalone tracks that…

January 14, 2025 | 08:00 EST

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2024 TechRaptor Awards - Best Writing

Games are full of good ideas or interesting worlds, which for so many that is really all you need. If I'm just here to rack up an arcade score, I don't need to know the tragic backstory of my hero.…

January 13, 2025 | 09:00 EST

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2024 TechRaptor Awards - Best Multiplayer

As inhuman as we gamers can be in a dark, poorly lit caves, we still want to spend some time with our fellow humans like anyone else. Thankfully, each year awesome games that allow us to compete and…

January 13, 2025 | 08:00 EST

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Tyler Chancey's Top 10 Games of 2024

Gaming in 2024 felt like the start of a shift in trends. The death of live services. The rise of nostalgic remasters and remakes. A time of big budget stagnation and indie innovation. It was also a…

January 17, 2025 | 12:05 EST

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Anson Chan's Top 5 Games of 2024

Looking back at all the games of 2024, it would be cliched to say that there were too many good games to decide which would be the best. It would be far more accurate to say that there were too many…

January 17, 2025 | 12:05 EST

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Blair Bishop's Top 10 Games of 2024

Alright, let’s get this out of the way first: 2024 was awful. Absolute dreck for everyone involved unless you were a constantly gambling on whether we'd deal with the worst-case scenario. With that…

January 17, 2025 | 12:05 EST

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Austin Suther's Top 10 Games of 2024

Last year, I made the brazen claim that "2023 will go down as one of the best years for game releases in a long time." I might have to eat my words after seeing what 2024 had to offer. I played the…

January 17, 2025 | 12:05 EST