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God of War: Ascension demo included with Total Recall remake Blu-ray
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 De...
blog.us.playstation.com posted by Joystiq Oct 10 2012 03:35 GMT
Unboxing an Atari Computer From 1983
#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. Mo...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jun 01 2012 03:30 GMT
This Man Stole $318,000 From Namco Before the Cops Caught Him
#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 » ...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jun 01 2012 03:00 GMT
All I Ever Wanted, Konami, Was a Little Congraturations
#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 »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 31 2012 03:30 GMT
A Fasciating Look at the Factories Where Old Video Games Were Made
#nintendo Mommy, where do video games come from? They come from factories, dear, factories like these, from the 1980s. More »
patrickscottpatterson.com posted by Kotaku May 31 2012 03:00 GMT
Suikoden Gets All Chop Choppy
#suikoden From Suikoden II. Which I don't think I've ever actually played. Maybe I should, because this looks great. More »
vgjunk.tumblr.com posted by Kotaku May 30 2012 03:30 GMT
In a Prior Life, This Video Game Executive Made Awesome Movies
#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...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 30 2012 03:00 GMT
How to Beat the Worst Video Game Ever Made
#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 »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 25 2012 03:30 GMT
The Excitement of Driving a Public Bus Around Tokyo. Very Slowly.
#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...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 24 2012 03:30 GMT
Game Box Nipples and Gunsmoke Moustaches
#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, t...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 24 2012 03:00 GMT
Unboxing a...1986 Sega Master System
#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 »
retroist.com posted by Kotaku May 23 2012 03:30 GMT
Your Eyes Are Not Ready For This Hideous Sega Jacket
#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 t...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 23 2012 03:00 GMT
Now You Too Can Play the Terrible Akira Video Game!
#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...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 22 2012 03:30 GMT
Activision's 1984 Catalogue Did Not Feature Call of Duty
#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 »
retroist.com posted by Kotaku May 22 2012 03:00 GMT
It Takes A Lot Of Focus To Play Pong... WITH YOUR MIND
#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 »
imdb.com posted by Kotaku May 19 2012 03:30 GMT
Video Games Kickstarted the Careers of Some of Hollywood's (and TV's) Greats
#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 »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 18 2012 03:30 GMT
A Very Sexy Introduction to an Ancient Tabletop Game
#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 »
bleepingrelics.com posted by Kotaku May 18 2012 03:00 GMT
Welcome to Atari, Sir, Here's Your 1973 ID badge
#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 u...
it8bit.com posted by Kotaku May 17 2012 03:30 GMT
You Won't Sleep After Seeing Soft & Cuddly
#thehorror Soft & Cuddly was a 1987 game for the ZX Spectrum. It was neither soft, nor cuddly. More »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 17 2012 03:00 GMT
There's Live-Action Diablo Footage...From Suburban America
#diablo This old Diablo II commercial, from around the time of the game's launch in June 2000, is notable for two things. More »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 16 2012 03:30 GMT
The Creator of Mario and Zelda Reveals his Secrets (in 1999)
#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 »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 15 2012 03:30 GMT
Fresh New Images of Tired Old Hardware
#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 ...
alancloiseau.com posted by Kotaku May 15 2012 03:00 GMT
A Moment To Re-Experience The Amazing Intro To Full Throttle
#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 »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 12 2012 04:00 GMT
Because Nothing Says "Exciting World War II Airplane Action" Like A Flying Baby
#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 »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 12 2012 03:30 GMT
A Red Dead Redemption Ghost Story to Chill Your Bones
#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 vap...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 12 2012 03:00 GMT
What an Old Game Boy Can Teach us About Men's Toilets
#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 »
motherboard.vice.com posted by Kotaku May 11 2012 03:30 GMT
The Japanese Game That Was Played in English, Based on Shakespeare
#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 we...
hardcoregaming101.net posted by Kotaku May 11 2012 03:00 GMT
What Arcades Looked Like Before Video Games
#arcades The word "arcade" is these days synonymous with video games, but it wasn't always that way. More »
arcadeheroes.com posted by Kotaku May 10 2012 03:00 GMT
Arcade Lights Made Michael J Fox's Hair Look Magnificent
#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 »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku May 10 2012 03:30 GMT

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