Virtual Love Secrets

Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week's best content.

When you look back on all that's happened in the gaming world—games released, scandals unveiled and surprises…

Here's to the world map. Here's to those goofy, disproportionate, inelegant pieces of virtual parchment that we've…

I don't know who is responsible for deciding which games make it onto the weekly Nintendo Download list, but whoever…

A great dad makes sure his son is better than he was. If you measure fatherhood by the accomplishments of offspring,…

It's the far future. You're a salvager, and you've been notified that a derelict, ancient 25th-century colony ship,…

Lonely? Unlucky in love? I used to be like you until I learned the secrets of love from my Xbox 360.

The Quantum Thief, released in the UK last year and in the U.S. this month, is a heist story set in a future of…

It was apparently a contracted hit. Gunpei Yokoi, father of the Game Boy who failed with the Virtual Boy, left…

People always ask me what I do. I guess I look like the kind of guy who you'd be curious what I do. I'm pretty sure…