Every year, Valve holds The Steam Game Awards, a community-driven initiative to recognize the best games that were launched in that year. Valve has just released the results for the 2024 Steam Game Awards, which are determined by community vote—as opposed to events like The Game Awards, which feature a jury selection—and split into individual categories. This year, though, the overall winner for Game of the Year was Black Myth Wukong, which beat out other finalists: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Balatro, and Helldivers 2 for top spot. Game of the Year wasn't Wukong's only victory, either, with the game also taking home the "Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award," which seems logical given its overall victory, and the cleverly named "Best Game You Suck At Award," which is meant to highlight the best difficult game of the year. In this category, Black Myth Wukong was up against Dragon Ball Z Sparkling Zero, The Finals, Ghost of Tsushima, and Tekken 8, which is again a very diverse mix of games and genres, so it's somewhat interesting to see a narrative-driven game like Wukong come out ahead here.

The rest of the Steam Game Awards 2024 was less of a one-man show, with Metro Awakening VR taking Best VR Game of the Year, Elden Ring nabbing the Labor of Love Award, and God of War Ragnarök taking the Best Game on Steam Deck Award. Helldivers 2 won Better with Friends, while Silent Hill 2 took home the Outstanding Visual Style Award, Liar's Bar won Most Innovative Gameplay, Red Dead Redemption won Best Soundtrack Award, and Farming Simulator 25 was crowned with the Sit Back and Relax award, beating out the likes or Webfishing, House Flipper 2, and Tiny Glade. One of the more surprising "minor" awards winners here is God of War Ragnarök taking home Best Game on Steam Deck, since you often hear in discourse around the Steam Deck that it's not suitable for AAA gaming, and God of War is only two years old at the time of writing, meaning it is still very demanding, with an NVIDIA GTX 1060 6 GB quoted as the minimum recommended GPU to play the game.

Leading gaming accessories maker Turtle Beach Corporation (Nasdaq: HEAR), and Performance Designed Products LLC (PDP) today announced the availability of limited-edition TEKKEN 8 Victrix Pro FS Arcade Fight Sticks. This exclusive, limited-edition fight stick line includes six different TEKKEN 8 designs, including Jin, Kazuya, King, Law, Lili, and Xiaoyu, each in their own colorway. The TEKKEN 8 Victrix Pro FS Arcade Fight Sticks are compatible with PS5 and PS4 consoles and Windows PC and are available for $499.99/€549.99 MSRP only at www.victrixpro.com.

"Our Victrix Pro fight sticks have already set the bar for what gamers should expect from a full-featured fighting game controller," said Trevor Lehr, Director of Product Management for PDP's Victrix products, Turtle Beach Corporation. "We were thrilled to collaborate with our friends and fellow fighting game genre leaders at Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. to create something truly special for hardcore TEKKEN fans."

Leading gaming accessories maker Turtle Beach Corporation, and Performance Designed Products LLC (PDP) today announced the launch of the Victrix Pro BFG Wireless Controller: TEKKEN 8 - Rage Art and TEKKEN 8 Victrix Tournament Backpack. The controller is available at www.PDP.com and Amazon for $199.99 MSRP. The backpack is also available from the PDP website and Amazon for $129.99 MSRP.

In addition, PDP kicked-off pre-orders today for the eagerly anticipated TEKKEN 8 Victrix Pro FS Arcade Fight Sticks. This exclusive, limited-edition fight stick line includes six different TEKKEN designs: Jin, Kazuya, King, Law, Lili, and Xiaoyu, each in their own colorway. The TEKKEN 8 Fight Sticks are available for $499.99 MSRP and only from www.PDP.com.

Within the first few minutes of Tekken 8's story mode, I was whooping at the screen as I watched the iconic Jin Kazama sprout wings, throw three cars at his dad with his mind and then proceed to body slam him through a skyscraper. I knew that if the game has started on this foot, I was in a for a good time. Tekken 8 is a rambunctious, over-the-top, callback to the absurdity of the likes of Tekken 3, and you're going to absolutely love it.

Tekken 8's story mode follows Jin Kazama's journey to take down his father, Kazuya Mishima, who is once again hosting a tournament to find the world's greatest fighter. Contestants from countries all over the world will compete, and those that fail will face horrible consequences unless Jin puts a stop to his antics, all the while fighting to rediscover his own devilish powers. There is more to this story, of course, but one that you'll absolutely want to experience for yourself. Don't worry, if you're not up to date with the story so far, Tekken 8 offers a series of short videos that'll catch you up on the main plot.