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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.

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#nintendo Mommy, where do video games come from? They come from factories, dear, factories like these, from the 1980s. More »

#suikoden From Suikoden II. Which I don't think I've ever actually played. Maybe I should, because this looks great. More »

#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 »

#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 »

#internet As awful as this is, I can't stop watching. More »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#thehorror Soft & Cuddly was a 1987 game for the ZX Spectrum. It was neither soft, nor cuddly. More »

#diablo This old Diablo II commercial, from around the time of the game's launch in June 2000, is notable for two things. More »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#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 »

#arcades The word "arcade" is these days synonymous with video games, but it wasn't always that way. More »

#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 »