With business failing and stores closing all over the country, GameStop reports record sales and earnings for 2008, and expects the trend to continue this year with plans to open 400 more stores.

We've given you the site's most popular videos, features and reporting, but what single story was the most read on Kotaku in 2008. And which story elicited the most comments?

On the Sci Fi channel's gaming blog Fidgit, actor and game journalist Tom Chick delivers a list of 2008's most overrated games that is guaranteed to piss off just about everyone imaginable.

With just 42 days left until the United States chooses its 44th President, it is vital that the electorate is well versed in the key issues affecting the country. Although many cultural commentators bemoan the lack of political engagement in the general population, and both the Democrat and Republican campaigns have…

Games Convention in Leipzig isn't all about having fun, cosplaying, and trying out upcoming video games. There are also plenty of traumatic events going on as well, such as the poor folks at SouthPeak Games, who came to the show this morning to let people sample their fine DS lineup only to find that all of their DS…