Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace: The Ani-TAY Review • Kingdom Hearts: The TAY Review • Dex Reviews Space Yuri, School, and More • Re: Metroid Other M TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Couple Uses Abandoned Church For Perfect Final Fantasy Cosplay

This could have been superb even with just the clothes and the makeup, but cosplayers Malindachan and Ex-Shadow didn’t stop there once they learned there’s an abandoned church near their home. It became the famous Sector 5 church of Midgar from Final Fantasy VII, the perfect location for their cosplay shoot. They’re dressed as Aeris…

Seinfeld Characters Would Do The Silliest Things in eSports

The formula is given, and it’s worked before: Plot lines from Seinfeld with Kramer the visionary, George who just can’t pull it together, Jerry and Elaine whining about everything, and Newman plotting something evil in his apartment, all squeezed into short tweets with something extra added. This time it’s eSports. Esports Seinfeld’s twitter is full…

A Song about Stupid Deaths in DayZ

Oh hey, time to spend another few days trying to get this tune out of my head. Or weeks. Yeah, weeks. You might remember “Dumb Ways to Die,” the morbidly cute and catchy internet-sensation-slash-song-slash-PSA that made its rounds online in late 2012. This here is the DayZ version, written and animated by YouTuber Sam Waterfall,…

PC Game Traps Pirates Inside An Elevator

Continuing a fine tradition of developers finding creative ways to punish pirates, Croteam – developers of the excellent Talos Principle – have decided they’ll just trap them inside an elevator. Forever. The original posts on Steam have since been deleted, since they deal with piracy, but NeoGAF user Ryo Hazuki capped one discussion while it…

What If…When We Die…We All Become Video Game Spectators…

Shenanigansen’s Owl Turd Comix looks at life, death and video games in a way that would push an artform closer to a religion. In a good way.

PSN Is Still Having Problems

Four days after an apparent denial of service attack knocked out the PlayStation Network for all of Christmas, and in the wake of a weekend during which things appeared to be working OK for most people, Sony’s online service is still unstable. About half an hour ago, we started seeing a spike of people reporting…

It’s Not Quite Super Metroid, But It’ll Do

The bad news: we haven’t seen a Metroid game in almost five years, and that’s not looking to change any time soon. The good news: Xeodrifter, which came out earlier this month for PC and 3DS, is a fine enough substitute. Well, it’s an OK substitute. A decent enough substitute. It’s margarine, basically. It’s I…

Sex Can Get Pretty Weird In The Sims 4, Thanks To Cheats

Under normal circumstances, sex in The Sims 4 is rather tame. You don’t really get to see anything, and instead of ‘sex,’ the game calls it ‘wohoo.’ But players are finding their own ways of making the game saucier—and the results are hilarious. Watch as PrettyGrumpyBear uses cheats to stage the most baffling ‘porn’ in…

Ten of Captain Falcon’s Best Moments In Melee Tournaments

Not gonna lie: watching this compilation video of amazing Captain Falcon plays made my pulse quicken. It’s just so hype! This video by EvenMatchupGaming highlights just how satisfying it is to watch a good Captain Falcon player. It’s not just that he has Falcon Punches, though those make for great moments too. Nearly everything about…

Kirk Helps Stephen Figure Out What’s Good About Danganronpa

A couple of Kotaku staffers love Danganronpa, the weirdly named Japanese visual novels/murder mysteries released on the Vita in the U.S. this year. I figured I should try one by year’s end. I knew going in that I was in for a rough time. WARNING: This post contains major spoilers about what happens in Dangonronpa‘s…

A friendly reminder: if you’re hoping to get an Xbox One for $350, you only have a few more days to do so. In a post on the Xbox Wire today, Microsoft said that the $50 discount expires this coming Saturday, January 3rd. You can almost afford a brand new game with those savings! via…