Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Darker than Black: Ascendant’s Ani-TAY Review • The Flawed Women of Welcome to NHK • The 10th Anniversary of Aquarion Sounds Deliciously Crazy • Indie HYPE: Children of Morta, Ephemerid, Upsilon Circuit TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection: The Kotaku Collection

You can play Borderlands 2 and its associated DLC and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and its DLC today, just like you could yesterday. But this time, it’s all packaged together for the new-gen consoles in a definitive collection with some new features, like four-player splitscreen. In celebration—or, really, mostly for pure research sake if you’re looking…

Massive Pirate LEGO Build Is Full Of Secrets

It wouldn’t be a proper pirate LEGO without secret passages and long-lost treasure. Kinggregus’ giant, pirate-themed build has it all, well-hidden in a massive fort. The front side looks peaceful, as the builder described in this Eurobricks Forum post: I figured that it would be fun to do cliffs in another color than grey. I…

Dude Fights His Dragon Ball Figures In A Cool Stop-Motion Rumble

Taiwanese animator Jordan Tseng is not a guy whose figure collection is collecting dust on a shelf. Their purpose is to fight their owner in stop-motion videos. Broly and Goku from Dragon Ball Z come to life in his recent, amazing clip Both characters use their signature moves, but still, this fight doesn’t end well…

Beard Growth Comes to Video Games

Finally! As anyone with facial hair will tell you, it grows. Except in video games, where beards seem suspended in time. Not anymore. In Witcher 3, the beard of series protagonist Geralt grows in real time. According to Eurogamer, the game’s developer, CD Projekt, said that the beard grows “as time passes” and when the…

First Look at the New Astro Boy Reboot

Never mind that there was already an Astro Boy reboot in 2009. Or that the previous reboot was not so good. They’re giving it another shot, calling it, wait for it, Astro Boy Reboot. It looks very green. As reported last year in Variety (via IT Media), the series is from Monaco’s Shibuya Productions and…

I Bought the Final Fantasy XV Demo for $18

Final Fantasy Type-0 was released in Japan this past Thursday—two days later than in America. But like many of you, I was more interested in the Final Fantasy XV demo than Type-0 itself. I didn’t exactly enjoy the Type-0 experience when the game was originally released, to say the least—though there were more than a…

Watch Me Play Bloodborne, Live [UPDATE: Stream Over]

Our impressions of the new PS4 game Bloodborne are now live, but this is a game that makes a strong impression when you actually see it in motion. To demonstrate, I’m going to spend some time streaming it! You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

DayZ Player Sings (And Plays Guitar) For His Life

What could’ve been just another blood-soaked tale of DayZ douchebaggery turned into something, well, kinda beautiful. In this DayZ video from Michael Gramlin, a player is taken hostage with all the traditional fixings—bag over his head, tied up, surrounded, and marinated in a baste of his own sweat and urine—with zero hope of escape. But…

People Aren’t Waiting Around For Nintendo To Make A Female Link

Nintendo may or may not ever give us a woman version of Link from Legend of Zelda, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. Or a game jam. In recent times, there’s been speculation that the next Legend of Zelda‘s Link will be a lady, not to mention an honest-to-goodness lady Link sighting in…

I don’t watch many trailers for upcoming games these days, especially when it’s for a game I’ll likely end up playing regardless, but if Batman’s going to keep getting delayed then I’ll have to get my fix somehow