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 gaming dogs. Reason enough for Nintendo to greenlight development of Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball 2, right? Anyone? Who’s starting the petition?

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