The Jumping Stars

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At the close of every year, Kotaku highlights not just video games but gamers—people who did noteworthy or…

Ever since I played the first demo of Lucky’s Tale, I’ve been convinced that third-person platform games are a…

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Most years, I find whittling a best-of list down to just 10 entries a tortuous process. Not so in 2017, because in…