Of Jumps and Platforms

Dandara is an action game where you can’t run. Your character leaps from wall to wall across massive maps while…

Celeste is pure. Each room offers new challenges, but the solution is always the same: jump. Jumping is remixed in…

Sometimes you need to punch a skeleton and use their severed arm to smack a ghost in the face. Long Live the Axe is…

We’ve been running and jumping as Mario for decades, but always from a third-person perspective. A recently-released…

In 2015, mobile developer Grumpyface Studios released Steven Universe: Attack the Light, a wonderful turn-based…

For Mario, 3D used to mean freedom. In 1996, Super Mario 64 broke Nintendo’s mascot from the shackles of having to…

In 1993, Nintendo made the inexplicable decision to license The Legend of Zelda to Phillips Media, creators of the…

Think Destiny 2 is a little too easy? Good news: The quest for the Rat King sidearm is just the kind of extreme…

It’s a VGChat! I’m here with Kotaku’s editor-at-large Kirk Hamilton to talk about Undertale, which came out for PC…

Earthworm Jim first released on the Sega Genesis today in 1994. The strange side scroller married offbeat humor and…