The Best Video Game Dogs of 2015

Top dogs, 2015! As selected by the Kotaku staff… Pompidou (Life is Strange) Desmond (Assassin’s Creed Syndicate) Dinki-Di (Mad Max) The Black Dog (The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone ) Lesser Dog/Greater Dog (Undertale) Dogmeat (Fallout 4) D-Dog (Metal Gear Solid V) Congratulations to all the winners. And here’s hoping 2016 brings us more great…

Shinjuku Gyoen National Park. Tokyo, Japan. By Colin Laycock. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Just a friendly reminder that Capcom’s Dark Souls-eque game Deep Down is still M.I.A. There’s no real news last year since the spring and the official Twitter account hasn’t been active since March 2015! The game was announced in 2013 and is slated for the PS4.

A Year’s Worth Of Dating Advice For The Modern Geek

Another year is ending, and with it another year of our Ask Dr. NerdLove advice column. The Doc—real name Harris O’Malley—kept his usual office hours this year, turning up a couple times per month to answer reader questions and, hopefully, help a few people on the way to a happier, healthier love life. Here are…

Podcast: Every Single Game* That Came Out In 2015

Let’s talk about Games of the Year. And by Games of the Year we mean literally every game that came out this year. Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re going back through all of 2015 for a month-by-month breakdown of this year’s games, from Dying Light through Trails of Cold Steel. Although we didn’t hit every…

Oculus has announced that its Touch controllers won’t ship until the “second half” of 2016. The Oculus Rift itself, however, is apparently still on track for early next year. The delay is disappointing; the Touch devices were the highlight of my last VR demo.