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The latest trend in video games: selfies. Check out this smart Wired piece about the Myspace phenomenon that’s found its way into a couple of video games that are out this week. What’s next—gangnam style? (ATTN: Video game developers. Please do not add gangnam style to your games.)

The last historical Yakuza spin-off never made it to the West, so don’t expect Yakuza Ishin to either. Meaning these sweet videos might be as close as you’ll get to Sega’s PS3/PS4 game.

The Best* GTA V Review Is Now A Catchy Song

There are plenty of serious, lengthy, thorough reviews of Grand Theft Auto V. But one review stands apart—probably because the person who wrote it didn’t even play the game. That person was critic, journalist and sometime Kotaku contributor Leigh Alexander, who wrote a sight-unseen “review” on her website satirizing some of the discussion and controversy…

Dark Souls II will be out on March 11 in North America and March 14 in Europe. That’s for consoles. PC version is coming later.

League of Legends Player Quickly Regrets Eating Pre-Game Hot Pepper

There’s a lot of trash talk in League of Legends. Eating something spicy might be just the thing to distract from all the vitriol. But when one dude chows down on one of the hottest foods in the world, all he hears are his own groans of pain. Dartigan—one of the guys from the Oh…

Pay Attention, GTA V‘s Cell Phones Are Great

Grand Theft Auto V is an incredibly detailed game. How detailed? Well, it features three protagonists: Three men with different lives, different outlooks, different incomes… and different cell phones. Up top, we’ve got a shot of all three phones. At left there’s Michael, the retired bank robber with cash to burn. He owns an iFruit,…

Nvidia’s Tegra Note Platform Is The Shield Without All The Shield Bits

Nvidia’s portable gaming system is neat, but there are several things it does — playing media, running games in portrait mode — that could be handled better by a similarly-powered tablet. The Tegra Note plaform is that tablet. Technically tablets, plural, the Tegra Note isn’t a single tablet, but a complete tablet platform, coming to…

The Dreamcast Was A New Console For A New Console Generation

When a new generation of gaming hardware looms, it can be instructive to look to the past. At the end of July, we published a review of a new book by Zoya Street titled Dreamcast Worlds. Mr. Street has allowed us to publish an excerpt from the book, in which he details Sega’s approach to…

Take A Look At GTA V‘s Parody Of The Facebook Offices

The GTA series is known for its parodies of everything relating to pop culture. An early mission in the latest installment has you wandering through the offices of “Lifeinvader,” who are practicing “full on, weapons grade, red alert, world domination.” Lifeinvader is GTA‘s version of Facebook, that conveniently happens to be located in Los Santos.…

Dance, and fight, for the crowd. Here’s the launch trailer for Foul Play, the theatrical brawler set in Victorian England. Owen liked what he saw of the game, and I gotta say, I’m interested in playing it, too. It’s out today on Xbox Live and Steam.

Why Whoopi Goldberg Prefers Diablo To GTA

There’s been a lot of awful media backlash today to video games but, weirdly, one place it didn’t happen was on The View Sure, they talk over each other a bit — but they’re adult enough to admit that the problem isn’t with violent games but with parenting. The best part, however, comes at the…

Grand Theft Auto V and Women

If you’re driving north, up the west coast of Grand Theft Auto V, as I did in the 40th hour I was playing the game, you might spot a crashed car smoldering in the long ditch between the northbound and southbound lanes. The car doesn’t appear there every time. The man who was in the…

What To Expect Out Of Battlefield 4‘s Beta

Battlefield 4 is scheduled to release on October 29th for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, followed by the next-gen consoles in November, but you can start the battle earlier by taking part in the open beta for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 4th. I played a lot of the…

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Is Shutting Down

After five years of operation, the MMO branch of Games Workshop’s popular fantasy universe will be closing down. The news comes via a letter to players from producer Carrie Gouskos: I was first introduced to Warhammer Online, when it was added last minute to GameSpot.com’s E3 2006 stage show. As one of the hosts of…

Link Almost Had Laser Eyes In Wind Waker

Did you know that the Hero of Time Winds almost shot laser beams out of his eyes? For real. It’s true. When making The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker for the GameCube, Team Nintendo had to figure out a way to use the iconic hero’s newly-cartoony eyes, and one possibility came up quickly: laser beams.…

Brilliant Comic Slams How The Media Treats Video Games

Perhaps in response to yesterday’s Fox News debacle, this amazing Dorkly comic totally nails the way television newscasters tend to treat video games. Read it all below:

Father Honors Son’s Short Life With A Fighting Game Tournament

On March 10, 2012, James Donmoyer stopped breathing. His parents started to freak out. They pulled over. They called 911. When they got to the hospital, the doctors said they were trying to revive the boy, but it was too late: James had passed away. He was three months old. James suffered from a birth…

Yep, Grand Theft Auto V Is Making A ****Load Of Money

$800 million. That’s the first-day sell-through number for Grand Theft Auto V—the highest in GTA history, the corporate overlords at Take-Two say. $800 million. In 24 hours. Via Take-Two: “All of us at Take-Two are thrilled with the initial response to Grand Theft Auto V. Once again, the team at Rockstar Games have outdone themselves,…

Remove your Battle.net Mobile Authenticator Before Upgrading To iOS 7

Blizzard’s mobile Battle.net Authenticator is a handy way to secure your StarCraft, World of Warcraft and Diablo accounts from rampant hackers, unless a major iOS upgrade screws it up. Then you’re in for a headache. Brought to players’s attention a couple of days ago on Blizzard’s forums, in some cases upgrading from iOS 6-something to…

Moneysaver: GTAV and Tomb Raider Deals Still Available, Infinite

If you haven’t pulled the trigger on Grand Theft Auto V yet, you still have time, with multiple offers to choose from still open to you. It’s also the last day to pick up that awesome Tomb Raider bundle, so don’t wait around. The votes are in. Here’s Kotaku’s favorite Gaming Monitor Grand Theft Auto…