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The Best Games of 2017

The Best Games of 2017

Update: 2025-09-26
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A massive year for games, a bleak year for at least one giant man. One of our oldest and most popular podcast formats is back, more than two years after our 2016 episode!


This week's music is from the Yakuza 0 soundtrack by Kensuke Inage and Yoshihiro Arai.

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