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Tech's biggest winners in 2024


Our team looks back on the highlights of 2024, including gadgets, apps and games.

The massive cultural footprint of this game instantly put him on the Mount Rushmore of solo developers, alongside Daisuke Amaya ( Cave Story), Markus Persson ( Minecraft), Lucas Pope ( Papers, Please) and Eric Barone ( Stardew Valley), among others. For years, companies like Meta and Snap have hyped up the promise of augmented reality — not just the animated selfie lenses and other effects we can see on our phones, but standalone hardware capable of overlaying information onto the world around us. The resulting audio stories (just a few minutes in length) wouldn’t sound terribly out of place on your local NPR station, right down to copious use of “ums,” “ahs,” pauses and co-hosts talking over each other with a relevant detail or two.

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