British esports host Frankie Ward will once again host the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted for 2024, featuring the 25 most-anticipated games in development on PC.
The show will also be narrated by British voice actor Amelia Tyler (of Baldur’s Gate 3), as it was last year (see our PC Gaming Show 2023 story here). Plus, American Red Bull pro Tekken player Cuddle_Core is a part of the council that selected the games.
This year’s show will take place on Thursday, 5 December 2024 at 8pm GMT, 12pm PST, 3pm EST and 9pm CEST.
It will feature more than 75 games, with new trailers, announcements, and behind the scenes visits to studios around the world, including:
- Jump Over the Age developer Gareth Damian Martin talks about their sci-fi RPG Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- A new reveal for Killing Floor 3 from Tripwire Interactive
- Nightdive Studios unveils a new trailer for its restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game The Thing: Remastered inspired by Universal Pictures’ 1982 film
- A new trailer for Eternal Strands from studio Yellow Brick Games
- And something special from breakout indie developer Strange Scaffold, creators of El Paso, Elsewhere and Clickolding and I am Your Beast
PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted will count down the top 25 PC games currently in development as selected by ‘The Council’ – a wide panel of industry luminaries, content creators and editors.
These include:
- Abubakar Salim (actor, game developer and producer)
- Anna Hollinrake (Electric Saint)
- AnnieFuchsia (content creator)
- Brenda Romero (Romero Games)
- Brian Fargo (InXile Entertainment)
- Caroline Marchal (Interior/Night)
- Cuddle_Core (professional esports player)
- CohhCarnage (content creator, Twitch)
- DansGaming (content creator)
- David Gaider (Summerfall Studios)
- DieHardDiva (content creator, Twitch)
- Dave Oshry (New Blood Interactive)
- Devora Wilde (actor)
- Dean Hall (RocketWerkz)
- Esfand (content creator)
- Harrie (content creator)
- Hannah Flynn (Failbetter Games)
- John Romero (Romero Games)
- MissMikkaa (content creator)
- Robert Yang (independent)
- Day[9]TV (creator)
- Steve Spohn (AbleGamers)
- Tanya DePass (Monolith Productions)
- Tanya X. Short (Kitfox Games)
- Victoria Tran (Innersloth).
Part of a season of end-of-year gaming broadcasts, the PC Gaming Show will take place two weeks after the Golden Joystick Awards (November 21) and the week before The Game Awards (December 12).
In addition to the rundown of the most eagerly anticipated games on PC, viewers can also expect a host of new trailers and reveals. The show will be broadcast via The PC Gamer Twitch and YouTube channels, the TwitchGaming channel, Steam and China’s Bilibili platform.
PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted is being presented in partnership with PC Game Pass, Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, Midwest Games, CCP Games, Robot Entertainment, Big Blue Sky Games, LLC, Shiro Games, Secret Mode, Can Can Can a Man, Playstack, Fall Damage, Raw Fury, PlayerUnknown Productions, Nordcorrent Labs, Hawkswell, Pahdo Labs, Raccoon Logic, Joystick Ventures, VOID Interactive, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Yellow Brick Games, Irregular Shapes, Hawkswell, Humble Games, Triple Espresso, Ancient Machine and Intel.
The news comes as members of the Baldur’s Gate 3 cast will attend MCM Comic Con Birmingham 2024 later this month.
There’s more info at pcgamingshow.com
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
