Here are the biggest games coming out in the back half of 2024

Now that we’ve successfully dispensed with naming every single good game of the first half of 2024—except for Animal Well, we know we left off Animal Well, we’re still waiting for Animal Well to click for us, okay?—it’s time to look forward to the big, Elden Ring DLC-shaped future. Which is to say it’s time to engage in another regular tradition ’round these parts: A mid-year gaming preview, highlighting the biggest game releases that are (probably) still coming in the remaining months of 2024.

And, look: Are we having a really hard time not just jumping to the upcoming video game where Universal Pictures took a ridiculous mish-mash of its characters (The Thing! Xena! M3GAN! Fucking JAWS!), turned them into Funko Pops, and then let you run around punching stuff as them? Absolutely! But such is our duty, and our curse. (It’s out in September, by the way, it looks like the most beautifully stupid thing we’ve ever seen, god, can we not wait.)

Until Dawn (TBA)

Does actually need a remake? We’d argue the answer is no: The ground-breaking interactive horror movie—still pretty much the only big studio release to crack that long-sought-after idea—still plays and looks great, almost a decade after its release. But we’d be lying if we said we weren’t a little interested to see what its tale of doomed campers trying to survive on a very bad mountain looks like while powered by the Unreal 5 engine—or what new scares Supermassive Games will sneak in to get a reaction from players who’ve played the original game to death. (Are we secretly just jones-ing to get yelled at by a hyper-detailed CGI Peter Stormare? Who can say. Who can say?)