House House, the developers behind 2019’s Untitled Goose Game, have another hit on their hands. This time it’s the studio’s recently released online, co-op-only puzzle game Big Walk. The game has sold over a million copies since launching last week, according to the studio. On August 10, Big Walk publisher…

It’s Warp Week on Kotaku! What is Warp Week? I’m glad you asked. It’s a theme week aimed at excavating gaming’s past with stories about big games, events, and moments as if we were reliving them. These aren’t just retrospectives. Some of the reviews, features, and news posts are written…

“Shades on! Mario’s debut on Cube is a historic blinder. Better than Mario 64? You betcha!” This was the opener to Michael Cooper’s effusive 10/10 review for Computer and Video Games of Super Mario Sunshine for the Nintendo GameCube, which launched July 19, 2002. Nintendo’s 3D follow-up to Super Mario…

It’s been five long years since The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall dazzled us with its incredibly realistic fantasy world, and hopes have been high that its sequel, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, can somehow top that. Taking place in the Dunmer land of Vvardenfell in the titular province, Morrowind promises…

GameStop went public on the New York Stock Exchange today, February 13, 2002, for a whopping $325 million. It closed at roughly $20.10 a share, a roughly 12-percent premium on what analysts had expected ahead of the spin-out. The market for video games and consoles hit $9.4 billion last year…

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones arrives three years after Star Wars fans crowded theaters to watch The Phantom Menace, the first new Star Wars movie in over a decade. And while most folks would agree that Darth Maul was cool and the podracing scene was amazing, a…