2024 in video games

The video game industry in 2024 was still in midst of large-scale layoffs since 2022, including large cuts from Microsoft Gaming, Electronic Arts, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Nearly 15,000 jobs were cut this year.

Financial performance

Best-selling premium games by region

The following titles were 2024's top ten best-selling premium games by region (excluding microtransactions and free-to-play titles) on PC and console platforms, for Japan, the United States, and Europe.

Top-rated games

Critically acclaimed titles

The following table lists the top-rated games released in 2024 based on Metacritic, which generally considers expansions as separate entities.

Major awards

Major events

Notable deaths

• January 10 – Jennell Jaquays, 67, tabletop and video game designer, with contributions for Dungeons & Dragons and at id Software.
• February 1 – Carl Weathers, 76, actor, best known for portraying Apollo Creed in the Rocky films and providing voice work in ', Mortal Kombat X and The Artful Escape.
• February 5 – Laralyn McWilliams, 58, game designer, lead designer of Full Spectrum Warrior and creative director of Free Realms.
• February 6 – Yoshitaka Murayama, 55, game designer, creator of the Suikoden series.
• February 7 – Mojo Nixon, 66, actor and musician who played Toad in 1993's Super Mario Bros. and appeared in Redneck Rampage.
• March 1 – Akira Toriyama, 68, manga creator of Dragon Ball, and character designer for games including the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger and Blue Dragon.
• March 10 – Mutsumi Inomata, 63, illustrator, character designer for the Tales series.
• March 14 - Lee Woo-ri, 24, South Korean actor who voiced Cyno from Genshin Impact and Lord Oyster from .
• March 27 – Joe Lieberman, 82, U.S. senator who led the congressional investigation of violent video games in 1993.
• March 29 – Louis Gossett Jr., 87, stage and screen actor who voiced the Vortigaunts in Half-Life 2.
• May 5 – Bernard Hill, 79, voice actor who voiced Sir Walter Beck in Fable III, and actor best known for portraying King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings sequel film adaptations of The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
• June 27 – Martin Mull, 80, actor who voiced Vlad Plasmius in Nicktoons Unite!.
• July 28 – Erica Ash, 46, actress who voiced Nagi Kirishima in Bloody Roar 4.
• August 10 – Rachael Lillis, 55, actress who voiced Jessie, Misty, and Jigglypuff in Pokémon.
• August 20 – Atsuko Tanaka, 61, actress who voiced Bayonetta in the Bayonetta series and Super Smash Bros. and Lara Croft in Tomb Raider II, Tomb Raider III, and .
• August 30 – Andrew C. Greenberg, 67, co-creator of the Wizardry series.
• September 9 – James Earl Jones, 93, voice actor in Under a Killing Moon, ', and '.
• September 29 – Nobuyo Ōyama, 90, actress who voiced the titular character in the Doraemon games and Monokuma in Danganronpa.
• November 6 – Tony Todd, 69, actor who voiced Venom in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Locus from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
• December 15 – Masayuki Kato, 78, founder of Nihon Falcom.
• December 22 – Gordon Mah Ung, 58, tech and video games journalist for Maximum PC and PC World.
• December 27 – Olivia Hussey, 73, actress from various Star Wars games circa 1998–2011.
• December 28 – Martyn Brown, 57, co-founder of Team17.