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.

Shout Out To This Poor Assassin’s Creed Guy

In Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, there’s a guy whose entire job is to stand on a boat and get knocked into a river. That’s it. That’s his whole life. This man is a hero. If you’re running along in Syndicate’s version of London and happen to cross the Thames, you’ll probably see this guy. He’s all…

NeoGAF users noticed the hardcore platforming Umihara Kawase games have been removed from Steam and certain PSN regions. This comes not long after the closure of the game’s publisher, Agatsuma Entertainment. If you already bought one of the Umihara Kawase games, you’ll still be able to download it.

Only a few weeks after Just Cause 3 was released, it appears the modding team behind Just Cause 2’s spectacular multiplayer mod have already cracked the sequel. There’s no indication when the rest of us might be playing Just Cause 3 with friends and strangers, but hopefully it’s not far off!

Track: Hotaru no Hikari | Artist: Foresta | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Listen up, King of Fighters fans. SNK exec Yutaka Noguchi tells Famitsu that many former SNK devs have returned to the company since it has refocused on gaming and left the pachinko business. Noguchi also added that devs who were working on pachinko-slot machines have been switched back to games. This all sounds promising.

Inside a Cave. Jahrom, Iran. By Aria Khosh Sirat. 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!

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