Gun of the Year 2024: Helldivers 2's AC-8 Autocannon

Videogames produce a lot of guns every year. Most of them fly under the radar, fulfilling their roles as one of dozens of options on a loadout screen or meeting a quota of archetypes that we reckon shooters ought to have. It takes a lot for a gun to stand out in 2024. Most of them are boxy, grey quadrilaterals so invisible that we reduce them to their stats. When we single one out, it's usually because we're reprimanding it for being so good it makes all the other guns around it look bad. Truly...