Think about it: L.A. Noire should work on a tablet. Rockstar's 2011 crime drama essentially updates the old-school adventure game formula that has players going places and clicking on items. A natural for conversion to a tablet, right? Well, yes… and no.

OnLive's still chasing the somewhat counterintuitive dream of bringing hardcore AAA video games onto portable smartdevices. The video above shows Kotaku intern Nick Vanucci taking on the OnLive tablet version of L.A. Noire. You'll see that the touch controls work great in some places and utterly fail in other places. Should you play the adventures of detective Cole Phelps on a tablet if you haven't played them on console? Watch the video above before you make a decision.

Here's one of the best Grand Theft Auto IV mods I've ever seen: a look at what happens when Transformers hero Optimus Prime invades Liberty City.

Optimus fits right in. You could almost call it... Grand Theft Autobots.

GTA IV - Optimus Prime (Transformers Mod) HD [YouTube — thanks, Shashwat!]

I don't know what's creepier, the face leering at everyone with the knife, or the wonky stick-figure body casually strolling around the streets.

[thanks Jonathan!]

Grand Theft Auto IV's iCEnhancer series of mods and tweaks takes a Rockstar PC game that looked pretty good already and turns it into - relative to the scale and size of GTAIV - the prettiest video game on the planet.

At least, if realism is your thing.

And if your PC can handle it.

The mod's creator, Hayssam Keilany, writes "Reflections are bugged because of the ROCKSTAR VIDEO EDITOR. It doesn't look like that in-game, don't worry & sorry about that."

Version 2.0 of the mod is now out and free to download at the link below.

iCEnhancer 2.0 [icelaglace]

Since we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy "video game photographer" behind the website DeadEndThrills, I've been sharing some of his work each week here.

This week Harris brought in some great shots from a modded version of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV. Let's take a look!

(Small note: This week, the full 1080p images were a touch to big for us to host. So, most of these are only at 720p. If you'd like to download the full HD images, head on over to Dead End Thrills.)

First up, up top we have:

Another World

I love this shot of the GetaLife building, certainly one of the most iconic buildings in Liberty City's Skyline. The textures on the sky here are amazing. Bonus points for a classic game shout-out in the title!

Tools and tricks: iCEnhancer 1.25 ENB Series mod, antialiasing (injected SMAA), 2160p rendering, game resource check overrides, Simple Trainer 6.4, Cam-Control mod, time and weather control, no-HUD, custom FOV.

"Glow In The Dark"

Great night shot of Star Junction. I'd love to mod the crap out of the PC version of the game just to see if I could get the lights to look like this.

Tools and tricks: iCEnhancer 1.25 ENB Series mod, antialiasing (injected SMAA), 2160p rendering, game resource check overrides, Simple Trainer 6.4, Cam-Control mod, time and weather control, no-HUD, custom FOV.

"The Surface of Things"

Another shot of downtown, this one during the day. Dear lord, this game certainly never looked like this when I played it.

Tools and tricks: iCEnhancer 1.25 ENB Series mod, antialiasing (injected SMAA), 2160p rendering, game resource check overrides, Simple Trainer 6.4, Cam-Control mod, time and weather control, no-HUD, custom FOV.

"The Crossing Guard"

Nice shot of Algonquin (I believe?) in the rain. Again, with the insane amount of detail that was packed into this game. It's an incredible feat of game-making, even four years later.

Tools and tricks: iCEnhancer 1.25 ENB Series mod, antialiasing (injected SMAA), 2160p rendering, game resource check overrides, Simple Trainer 6.4, Cam-Control mod, time and weather control, no-HUD, custom FOV.

"Invisible Ink"

The thing I dig most in this one is the graffiti in the background. Again with the details. I remember when I first played GTA IV marveling at the Grafitti, and wondering how Rockstar managed to put together so much good stuff.

Tools and tricks: iCEnhancer 1.25 ENB Series mod, antialiasing (injected SMAA), 2160p rendering, game resource check overrides, Simple Trainer 6.4, Cam-Control mod, time and weather control, no-HUD, custom FOV.

"Hill Street Hues

Fantastic shot of the Dukes branch of the Liberty City PD; this one actually looks just a biiit like Bully, which makes me wish all over again that we could get a sequel to that super amazing game. Anyway, this picture is cool.

Tools and tricks: iCEnhancer 1.25 ENB Series mod, antialiasing (injected SMAA), 2160p rendering, game resource check overrides, Simple Trainer 6.4, Cam-Control mod, time and weather control, no-HUD, custom FOV.

Everybody's got to start somewhere. For fashion blogger turned singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, it was the streets of chic Harajuku where she first made her biggest splash.

Like so many hipster Harajuku kids, her fashion was cutting edge—outrageous, even. But unlike so many hipster kids, she didn't shy from shilling an Xbox 360 game, a skill that would come in handy after she became famous.

Even if you do not know the name Kyary (sometimes it's "Carrie" or "Carry") Pamyu Pamyu, you might be familiar with her song "PonPonPon", a Kool-Aid infused candy pop ditty. If not, you can see it here. Kyary followed that up with her official debut single "Tsukema Tsukeru" and a video that's slightly less trippy and mind numbing than "PonPonPon".

Long before that, Kyary was just a high schooler with peculiar fashion sense. (And before that, it's rumored that she was a "junior idol" under another name, appearing in swimsuit pictures; this isn't that uncommon as celebrities like Kill Bill's Chiaki Kuriyama started as underage junior idols.) Sister site Kotaku Japan spotted a 2010 video of Kyary pre-"PonPonPon" when she was 17 years old. In it, she and a friend are talking about what kind of guys they like; Kyary likes guys who resemble "Draco Malfroy" from Harry Potter.

At the end of the clip, the girls are holding a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360—which is odd considering that the game, especially the Xbox 360 version, was not mainstream in Japan, but rather appealed to core gamers. And then the two begin saying how much fun the game is, even though they admit they haven't played it (that last bit is not translated in the clip). The whole thing feels like somebody said, "Hey cool kids, hold this and say you like it."

The clip is from Tokyo fashion site RID, which focuses on what chic kids on the street are wearing. While unconfirmed, the clip sure seems like a viral ad, which would not be unheard of. Microsoft Japan apparently roped in schoolgirls for viral Xbox 360 promotions a few years back.

After "PonPonPon" exploded last summer, Kyary moved into the Japanese mainstream, appearing in ads, including what is the greatest pudding (or "flan") commercial ever to grace Japanese television. While few remember her pre-"PonPonPon" Grand Theft Auto shill, these recent pudding commercials are being labeled as "godly" online.

As I've said before, Japanese celebrities are often judged by how many commercials they appear in. The more commercials, the better. And the more memorable, the better.

Glico's pudding is the pudding in Japan, so when regular people think of pudding, they think of this. And now, when they think of pudding, they think of Kyary and her pudding dance. And when they think of Grand Theft Auto—what am I talking about, regular people in Japan don't think about GTA. Though, they do love pudding.

When you play Grand Theft Auto games, do you ever feel a bit like The Terminator? Walking forward in an ungainly way, absorbing more bullets than a human ought to be able to absorb, shooting cops in the knee with reckless abandon?

YouTube user taltigolt has uploaded this video of the "Terminator T1" mod for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, which can be downloaded at gta4-mods.com. The mod appears to graft a T-800 endoskeleton onto Niko Bellic's character model—the result is surprisingly convincing!

I never really thought about how Niko lumbered around like a 2-ton cyborg before, but there you go. He really needs an M79 grenade launcher, though. Next up: Liquid metal mod.

On the left, the complete script for Grand Theft Auto III. On the right? The complete script for Grand Theft Auto IV.

[via Rockstar]

Using the wonders of the personal computer, the team at GTAVTV went out and recreated the Grand Theft Auto V trailer, shot-for-shot, only instead of being set in Los Santos it's in GTAIV's Liberty City.

You can catch the original below for comparison's sake.

GTA 5 Trailer Remade in Liberty City [GTAVTV, via VG247]

Sexual harassment is awful. Many people—often politicians, it seems—say things or create situations that make others uncomfortable. So Bolt insurance agency created a chart explaining "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace".

Specific examples include: "Constant and repeated requests for a date or unwanted flirting", "Unwanted jokes, gestures, comments and repartee", and "Displaying sexually suggestive objects, pictures or posters in the workplace" as well as "Playing sexual suggestive movies, music, games or video clips in the workplace".

In that last example, Grand Theft Auto IV's iconic art is pictured on a laptop. Look for Bolt's follow-up chart, "Using Intellectual Property without Permission".

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Infographic [Bolt via BusinessInsider Thanks, Anthony!]