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God of War: Ascension demo included with Total Recall remake Blu-ray
blog.us.playstation.com posted by Joystiq Oct 10 2012 03:35 GMT
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Wow, there's a reason to consider buying the Blu-ray of the Total Recall remake! If you purchase the "Director's Cut" Blu-ray, or the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, you'll get the E3 demo of God of War: Ascension. The Blu-ray, and the God of War demo, arrive December 18. The demo is exclusive "through 3/8/13," suggesting that a demo will hit PSN four days before the March 12 launch.

God of War demos and sci-fi movie Blu-rays have been mashed together before. Back in 2009, Sony tossed a God of War 3 demo in with District 9 on Blu-ray.
Unboxing an Atari Computer From 1983
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jun 01 2012 03:30 GMT
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#atari Continuing my dust-covered crusade against modern unboxings, here's another vintage unboxing, in which an Atari 800XL from 1983 is transferred lovingly from the packaging to the outside world. More »
This Man Stole $318,000 From Namco Before the Cops Caught Him
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jun 01 2012 03:00 GMT
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#namco In 1985, Namco America employee Steven Drake was arrested by police and found with $32,000 cash on him, with even more hidden in the trunk of a car parked at San Francisco airport. More »
All I Ever Wanted, Konami, Was a Little Congraturations
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 31 2012 03:30 GMT
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#konami It's perhaps not as famous as other hatchet jobs on the English language perpetrated by Japanese developers in the 1980s, but it's one of my favourites nonetheless. More »
A Fasciating Look at the Factories Where Old Video Games Were Made
patrickscottpatterson.com posted by Kotaku May 31 2012 03:00 GMT
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#nintendo Mommy, where do video games come from? They come from factories, dear, factories like these, from the 1980s. More »
Suikoden Gets All Chop Choppy
vgjunk.tumblr.com posted by Kotaku May 30 2012 03:30 GMT
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#suikoden From Suikoden II. Which I don't think I've ever actually played. Maybe I should, because this looks great. More »
In a Prior Life, This Video Game Executive Made Awesome Movies
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 30 2012 03:00 GMT
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#therocketeer If all you do is sit around reading video game news all day, and not much else, when someone mentions the name "Danny Bilson", you probably think "Oh, the guy who's captained THQ to the bottom of the ocean". And you'd be right! More »
How to Beat the Worst Video Game Ever Made
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 25 2012 03:30 GMT
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#et While that's a subjective boast, has any other game been so terrible that copies of it were taken out into the middle of the desert and buried? No. So I'm sticking with it. More »
The Excitement of Driving a Public Bus Around Tokyo. Very Slowly.
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 24 2012 03:30 GMT
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#tokyobusguide Japan has a long and storied tradition of developing games where you are a train driver. Doing very little but going forwards, backwards and slowing down at stations. If that sounds a little too pedestrian for your tastes, well, there's always Tokyo Bus Guide. More »
Game Box Nipples and Gunsmoke Moustaches
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 24 2012 03:00 GMT
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#sex This is Game Over, a title for the Spectrum, first released in 1987. A game released amidst controversy. See, while later editions of the game would feature slightly edited variations of the box art, the original featured one of video gaming's first wardrobe malfunctions. More »
Unboxing a...1986 Sega Master System
retroist.com posted by Kotaku May 23 2012 03:30 GMT
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#sega Who gives a shit about unboxing modern games hardware. We all do it when we buy the thing, they come with basically nothing, and the documentation is woeful. More »
Your Eyes Are Not Ready For This Hideous Sega Jacket
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 23 2012 03:00 GMT
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#sega Just as Nintendo had its Power Line, so too did Sega once have its own band of phone-based game assistance. It was staffed by men and women who were known as Sega Game Counselors, and in addition to their jobs helping kids get past the tough parts of games, they also got these jackets. More »
Now You Too Can Play the Terrible Akira Video Game!
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 22 2012 03:30 GMT
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#akira In 1988, Taito released Akira, cash-in on the hugely-popular animated film of the same name. Just in case you were wondering if Japanese developers somehow made better movie adaptations in the 1980s, no, they did not. The game was terrible. More »
Activision's 1984 Catalogue Did Not Feature Call of Duty
retroist.com posted by Kotaku May 22 2012 03:00 GMT
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#activision Before the internet, before people even really cottoned onto the idea of games magazines, publishers had to sell things the old-fashioned way: with TV ads and catalogues. More »
It Takes A Lot Of Focus To Play Pong... WITH YOUR MIND
imdb.com posted by Kotaku May 19 2012 03:30 GMT
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#kissdaddygoodbye Psychic/possessed children are creepy. They do creeeepy things, like stare blankly at you and speak in a monotone and maybe set your hair on fire with their minds. More »
Video Games Kickstarted the Careers of Some of Hollywood's (and TV's) Greats
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 18 2012 03:30 GMT
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#totalrecall You may have seen one or two of these clips before, maybe even here on Kotaku, but boy, seeing them all laid out in a single video like this is something else. More »
A Very Sexy Introduction to an Ancient Tabletop Game
bleepingrelics.com posted by Kotaku May 18 2012 03:00 GMT
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#caveman Sure, I could bang on about Caveman, a tabletop electronic game released by Tomy, and how it had a rad soundtrack and some terrific box art. More »
Welcome to Atari, Sir, Here's Your 1973 ID badge
it8bit.com posted by Kotaku May 17 2012 03:30 GMT
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#atari Ronald Jardine was one of the very first employees at Atari. We're talking the early 1970s here. Employee #159. Wonderfully, Jardine recently took photos of his old ID badge from his time there and uploaded them, giving us an insight into the cutting-edge security methods employed at the blossoming tech company. More »
You Won't Sleep After Seeing Soft & Cuddly
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 17 2012 03:00 GMT
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#thehorror Soft & Cuddly was a 1987 game for the ZX Spectrum. It was neither soft, nor cuddly. More »
There's Live-Action Diablo Footage...From Suburban America
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 16 2012 03:30 GMT
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#diablo This old Diablo II commercial, from around the time of the game's launch in June 2000, is notable for two things. More »
The Creator of Mario and Zelda Reveals his Secrets (in 1999)
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 15 2012 03:30 GMT
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#nintendo In 1999, Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto gave a keynote address at the Game Developers Conference. An address you can watch here in its entirety. More »
Fresh New Images of Tired Old Hardware
alancloiseau.com posted by Kotaku May 15 2012 03:00 GMT
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#totalrecall If you're short on ideas for new wallpaper, and have a bit of a thing for old video game hardware, check out French artist Alan Cloiseau's collection of vintage Sega, Sony and Nintendo systems and controllers. More »
A Moment To Re-Experience The Amazing Intro To Full Throttle
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 12 2012 04:00 GMT
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#fullthrottle Has it been a while since you last played Full Throttle? I'm guessing it has. Sit back, relax, and watch the intro movie from the game. More »
Because Nothing Says "Exciting World War II Airplane Action" Like A Flying Baby
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 12 2012 03:30 GMT
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#1943 Most everyone has some memory or another of 1943, the top-down airplane bullet-hell shooter to which we all lost a good deal of quarters. More »
A Red Dead Redemption Ghost Story to Chill Your Bones
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 12 2012 03:00 GMT
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#reddeadredemption They say Red Dead Redemption is haunted, you know. They've said it for years now—ghosts exist in the system, devils and spooks and spectors and maybe even a class-5 full-roaming vapor or two. More »
What an Old Game Boy Can Teach us About Men's Toilets
motherboard.vice.com posted by Kotaku May 11 2012 03:30 GMT
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#gameboy Via Vice mag's tech site, Motherboard, we get a look at one of the best pieces of work ever done on a Game Boy. And it's not even a game. More »
The Japanese Game That Was Played in English, Based on Shakespeare
hardcoregaming101.net posted by Kotaku May 11 2012 03:00 GMT
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#ps1 The Book of Watermarks is an adventure game released in Japan, and only in Japan, in 1999. Rare for a Japanese adventure game, it featured full-motion video actors and 3D visuals. Rarer still, they were Westerners, and the game tipped its hat to the work of William Shakespeare. More »
Arcade Lights Made Michael J Fox's Hair Look Magnificent
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 10 2012 03:30 GMT
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#arcades Of all the teen movies that crawled out of the 1980s, High School USA was far from the finest. And yet here we are, watching a scene of it, right here on Kotaku. More »