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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Blades of Steel: The Retro TAY Review • The Search for Unique Gaming Experiences • Final Fantasy Road Trip: Final Fantasy 2 • Koda’s Top 10 Fall 2014 Anime Openings TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Halo 5’s Multiplayer Is All About Movement

There’s a new trend that seems to be affecting the world of shooters. It’s not enough to simply have powerful guns, challenging levels and enemy formations, and a balanced space to play with others competitively. These days a shooter has to have movement, even a level of grace, to stay competitive. And Halo 5 seems…

The Halo Collection’s Online Multiplayer Isn’t Working Properly

It’s launch day for the Halo: The Master Chief Collection, but players are struggling to get online to play in any of the multiplayer matches. Earlier this morning Microsoft issued an Xbox Live service alert to say that they’re working on the matchmaking problem that many players seem to be having. I tried to hop…

Classic Comic Book Covers Rebuilt With LEGO

A LEGO art show called Comic Bricks! was part of Designer Con last weekend in Los Angeles. Builders were asked to recreate a comic book cover of their own choice. Looking at the photo gallery it’s quite obvious that they all did good and were very very creative. Tommy Williamson’s Star Wars #1 on top…

Guys Forge Assassin’s Creed Unity Blade, Annihilate Soda With It

That must have been a complicated build. Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s Phantom Blade has a crossbow and a spring-loaded blade, all hidden under the wrist. The veteran weaponsmiths of Man at Arms were able to make an awesome-looking working replica. You can see the entire process in the video below. The soda and watermelon annihilation starts…

There’s only a couple hours left until WoW’s fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor, goes live, and these final hours are always eventful, whether it’s a last minute raid of the opposite faction’s capital or—as in fite_me_irl‘s screenshot—a giant blob of players gathering to say goodbye to Pandaria. End of MoP Party [via r/wow] Dayshot is…

Remember those neat transparent 2DS consoles? Nintendo confirmed that they’ll be out in North America alongside Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire on November 21. Each handheld will retail for $99.99, but unlike their European counterparts, they will not come with a copy of Pokémon ORAS pre-installed.

A Whole Month’s Worth of Sweet Zelda T-Shirts

It’s the veritable motherlode of humorous pop culture-themed Zelda shirts. The guy behind all the art is New Jersey-based illustrator Blair J. Campbell. He came up with something called “Octoroktober,” challenging himself to do one Legend of Zelda-inspired shirt design on each day in the month of October. The results are pretty awesome. Like the…

When Game Design is Therapy

Rarely, if ever, do we think about the mental state of the creator/s and how the design and building of a game impacted them. We take it for granted, perhaps, that their sole purpose in creation is to provide something that affects us. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK As with all art, though,…

New Amiibo Figures Include Wind Waker Link, Mega Man & Sonic

Yes, we only just got our hands on the first wave of Amiibo figures. But Nintendo is moving fast, and today showed off next batch of their NFC toys. Your wallets may be in grave danger. There’s Wind Waker Link. Sonic. Bowser. Mega Man. Rosalina. Sheikh. Sheikh!! They’ll be out on January 22 in Japan.…

Some Excellent Changes Are Coming To Destiny

While we know about some tweaks and additions coming to Destiny alongside the game’s expansions, Bungie today spoke a little about some other changes coming to the game. And some of those changes are very, very welcome Mentioned briefly and with little additional information (at least for now), Bungie says players can soon expect: New…

Fallout And Team Fortress 2 Go Together Surprisingly Well

Want to play Fallout: New Vegas as one of Team Fortress 2‘s colorful classes, all the way down to skills, motives, and possible alcoholism? Here’s how. Molkifier put together a guide on the mods and measures needed to recreate the cast of Team Fortress 2 in Fallout: New Vegas. It’s nicely detailed, with lists of…

Swimming Pools Open Up Terrifying New Ways To Kill In The Sims 4

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the BREAKING EXPERIMENT, where all the all the Sims are harmed in the making of this video!” Oh boy. PrettyGrumpyBearGame is back with her questionable experiments in The Sims 4, and this time, she sees what she can get away with when it comes to pools + cheats. Turns out,…

Ex-Sony Engineer Left His Name Inside Every PS4

Kazuya Sakakihara spent ten years working at Sony as a senior software engineer, helping bring both the PS3 and PS4 to the world. He’s no longer at the company (parting ways in early 2013), but before he left he made sure his name quite literally lives on inside the code of pretty much every PlayStation…

Overwatch Has A Story, But No Single-Player

I spent the weekend at BlizzCon, aka Overwatch-And-Some-Other-Stuff Con, aka Metzcon 2014. I played a demo of the surprising team-based shooter and liked it pretty well—with some reservations—but it was only a small snippet. I asked Blizzard about what the future holds. Here’s what they told me. Will there be a single-player story?—No. While Overwatch…

Kamikaze GTA Online Jet Kills Without Bullets

You’re not really supposed to kill people with the Besra in GTA Online. The Besra is a training jet, it has no mounted weapons. But that doesn’t stop this player from wrecking everyone else with the Besra anyway. oAngrybird shows us how they use the Besra’s body (and acceleration) to smash into other players, taking…

Hell Is Eight People Playing As Little Mac In Smash Bros.

You’ve probablyseen eight player Smash Bros. matches already. Let me show you what is bound to happen once you’ve been playing Smash with friends for a few hours, and everyone has become open to doing terrible, terrible things. I’ve been having a lot of fun with the Wii U version of Smash Bros., and while…

Pretty Sure This Is What Source Filmmaker Was Made For

Some people become heroes through combat. Others prove their worth through great feats of science or art. This hero, however, proves himself through simpler means. Above, an0nymooose uses Source Filmmaker to tell the story of a simple hero — a Saw Hero. He’s a hero for our times — a working class craftsman that makes…

What I’ve Learned On My Way To Hundred Percenting My First Game

When it comes to open world games, I’m not the kind of player who tries to reach one hundred percent completion. But I recently booted up Shadow of Mordor again and discovered something shameful. I’d played 38 hours and hadn’t even cracked 40 percent. That was simply unacceptable. So it was back to Mordor for…

A note about our review plans for some of this week’s biggest games: As I mentioned last week, we’re not necessarily reviewing every game by its release date these days. Some games, particularly those with a focus on online, play merit a little more waiting before we review them. That said, there are a bunch…