The biggest video game anniversaries of 2024
Old In 2024 | Hang on, these games are how old this year?
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The biggest new games for 2024 are getting closer as we wade deeper into the year. Fromupcoming Xbox Series X gamessuch as Avowed and Fable, to the biggest and brightest exclusiveupcoming PS5 games, and the bestupcoming PC gamesandupcoming Switch games, there’s loads to look forward to in the weeks and months ahead.
But what about the games that are now firmly in our rearview mirror? We can’t quite believe it’s been 20 years since the arrival of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Half-Life 2, for example, or a full decade since Alien: Isolation and P.T. scared our socks off. Believe it or not, it’s now been a full 30 years since the first Tekken hit our screens; and a quarter of a century since Crazy Taxi took the wheel (and then promptly lost control of it).
All of which is to say: there area lotof big video game anniversaries in 2024 – so much so that we’ve rounded up all of our favorites here. Separated into five-year intervals, we start below with some of the biggest games celebrating their 10th birthday, before working all the way back to the heady days of 1994.
Games turning 10 in 2024
Games launched in 2014
Games turning 15 in 2024
Games launched in 2009
Games turning 20 in 2024
Games launched in 2004
Games turning 25 in 2024
Games launched in 1999
Games turning 30 in 2024
Games launched in 1994
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Joe Donnelly is a sports editor from Glasgow and former features editor at GamesRadar+. A mental health advocate, Joe has written about video games and mental health for The Guardian, New Statesman, VICE, PC Gamer and many more, and believes the interactive nature of video games makes them uniquely placed to educate and inform. His book Checkpoint considers the complex intersections of video games and mental health, and was shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book of the Year for non-fiction in 2021. As familiar with the streets of Los Santos as he is the west of Scotland, Joe can often be found living his best and worst lives in GTA Online and its PC role-playing scene.
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