Here’s what gaming and esports industry leaders are playing in 2024

As July comes to an end, gaming industry leaders are reflecting on their favorite games of the year so far.

2024 has been a difficult year for the gaming industry. In the first six months of the year, publishers laid off thousands of workers as they scrambled to adapt to a general audience shift away from premium console games and toward free-to-play or live-service titles. Despite these challenges, however, game publishers have continued to put out new, high-production-value titles, and movers and shakers in the space are still more than willing to play them.

Digiday contacted 11 leading executives and creators in the gaming space to get a sense of what they’ve had the most fun playing in 2024. Here are their answers. (So far, the winner appears to be “Helldivers 2,” with “EA Sports College Football 25” taking second place.)

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