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With the release of New Love Plus in Japan on Valentine's day, Konami introduced a creative new game system that utilizes the 3DS's built-in camera. More »
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Today, love simulator New Love Plus went on sale. Today is also Valentine's Day. A photographer at Japanese game site 4Gamer snapped this photo, which seems to show a young couple passing by the Love Plus Akihabara launch, which is populated with dudes. More »
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Today is Valentine's Day in Japan. The day is slightly different from its American counterpart—2012, more so. Early this morning, gamers lined up so they could spend the day with someone special: their virtual girlfriends. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5884889&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're one to believe analysts (ha!), note that Nomura Securities is forecasting that MGS5 will be out by March 2014. Apparently, Nomura doesn't realize how long it takes Hideo Kojima to get games out the door. [Nihon Securities Journal] More »
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An image circulating Twitter earlier today seemed to imply a Konami office building in Japan was burning. It most certainly was not, a spokesman told Kotaku. Reading into Japanese Twitter users' feeds, it appears this "strange smoke" might be only building steam. All is well. More »
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Multiple Japanese Twitter users have posted pictures of what appears to be a fire in a Konami office. More »
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At E3 in June, I watched Konami's Shinta Nojiri play NeverDead and struggle to reassemble his dismembered, immortal hero just to dispatch what looked like the game's run-of-the-mill enemies. These people have a real problem on their hands, I thought to myself, if they think that's anyone's idea of fun. More »
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Today via Twitter, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima revealed that the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, the remastered ports of MGS2 and MGS3, would be coming to the PS Vita. More »
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You might think this statue of Nene Anegasaki from Konami's love sim Love Plus looks pretty nice. You might think it's well sculpted and well put together. But wait until you see it in pieces. More »
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Konami has confirmed that the beloved beat-em-up The Simpsons Arcade is coming to consoles, and sooner than you expected. Not only does it get here, like, Friday (on Xbox Live), it'll be available free to PlayStation Plus subscribers when PSN gets it on Tuesday Feb. 7. More »
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Great games often spring from a single brilliant idea, like a protagonist that can pull himself back together after being blown apart. Unfortunately this is also the case for many really crappy games. Where does NeverDead's mangled pile of people parts fall? More »
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Silent Hill's resident bogeyman Pyramid Head ask the class to solve for X using the Pythagorean theorem. More »
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Coming later this month to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, Puddle is a fluid dynamics platformer that follows various fluids as they travel through a garden hose, a rocket engine, the human body, and more. More »
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Konami is releasing a special Metal Gear Nintendo 3DS. Good luck on trying to get one, though. You'll have to jump through all sorts of hoops. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5877790&view=rss&microfeed=true Even though Konami dissolved game maker Hudson and even though Takashi Meijin left and Momotaro Dentetsu's creator quit, Konami said today it's keeping the Hudson brand around. What for? Hudson's dead, baby, Hudson's dead. [Inside] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5877096&view=rss&microfeed=true On Mar. 1, Konami's takeover of Hudson will go into effect. The merger will mean that Hudson ceases to exist and is dissolved into Konami. Best known for Bomberman, Hudson became a fully-owned Konami subsidiary in last year. [Infoseek] More »
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If you grew up in the 1980s and played video games, you know the Konami Code. It's very easy to remember. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, inventor of the Konami Code, said there's a reason for that. More »
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The unkillable Bryce Boltzmann comes to life on January 31 in Konami's Neverdead. Should you care? Megadeth hopes so. Owen Good didn't seem to think so. Perhaps a new batch of screens will help? More »
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Konami's latest in a never-ending line of Metal Gear Solid remakes, Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D, will be out on the Nintendo 3DS in the US on February 21. More »
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In Konami's love sim New Love Plus, you can once again talk with virtual girls. Since the 3DS features a gyro-sensor, you can also move the handheld around and see things. Hello fan service? More »
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Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater is coming to the Nintendo 3DS as Snake Eater 3D. To mark the occasion, the game is getting a very special Nintendo 3DS. Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima provided a first sneak peek. More »
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In 2009, then 36-year-old Konami Digital Entertainment employee Yoko Sekiguchi sued her company after being demoted following maternity leave. More »
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Released back in 1998, the first Metal Gear Solid is one of those titles for which gamers continuously cry "remake". Hideo Kojima, the game's creator, seems perfectly happy with the game. More »
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Hideo Kojima, creator and curator of the Metal Gear franchise, sure loves a tease. Speaking with CNN recently, he starts to get into details about his upcoming game, then like all good teases do, pulls up short just before you get to the good stuff. More »
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Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear, is working on a new game engine called the Fox Engine. Today, he's been posting test images showing off what it can do. One of those things is see woman's bras through their shirts. More »
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Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear fame has shown off a test image of his "new work". More »
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As revealed over the weekend, Konami roped in Bayonetta developers Platinum Games to make Metal Gear Rising, because it couldn't. More »
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The man leading development on Metal Gear Rising, former Capcom star Atsushi Inaba, sounds like he was prepared for the fan backlash stemming from the game's VGA trailer over the weekend. More »
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Hideo Kojima doesn't only make Metal Gear games, these days, it seems like they're all he makes. Even the diehard fans are getting sick of them. Why can't Kojima make another Zone of the Enders mecha game? More »
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If you live in Japan, you've seen Dante Carver on television. The American-born actor plays "Onii-chan" or "brother" in a series of mobile phone commercials that star a dog as a family patriarch, actress Aya Ueto, and Shigesato Itoi's wife. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5867530&view=rss&microfeed=true Metal Gear Rising is a hack-and-slash game. It's not a stealth game—no biggie MGS creator Hideo Kojima pointed out. It's a spin-off game, and stealth will return to the next MGS sequel so wait for that. [@Kojima_Hideo] More »
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It's a name Square Enix would be proud of, but before you go thinking some Japanese guy made it up by combining "Revenge" and "Vengeance" and nobody had the sense to tell him it was a stupid name, know that it's a word that's been used before. More »
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For years, Japanese gamers have enjoyed the Momotaro Dentetsu series of train-themed, board game-style video games. If all good things must come to an end, it sounds like Momotaro Dentetsu is finished. Kaput. More »
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For a spell there, Metal Gear: Rising fell off the map. That's probably because the game had been canned. Now, as evident in the game's latest trailer, Rising is back in a big way. More »
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During the VGA Awards, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima took the stage and introduced the new trailer for Metal Gear: Rising. Things didn't go smoothly. At all. More »
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The creator of Metal Gear, Hideo Kojima, got new business cards. They look fucking dangerous. More »
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When the PlayStation Vita launches in Japan in two weeks, Konami will offer a download-only title that is free at its release, with the option for gamers to buy additional levels if they enjoy it. More »
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Coming this winter to Xbox Live Arcade, inXile Entertainment's Choplifter HD takes the classic rescue chopper gameplay of the 1982 PC original and "amps it up" with zombies, explosions, and the odd cameo. Fingers crossed for a classic mode! More »
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Back in January, one of Lionel Messi's teammates on FC Barcelona let slip that the football superstar greatly enjoyed playing EA Sports' FIFA series. At the time, he was the three-time cover star of Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer, from its 2009 to 2011 editions. More »
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This past August, I asked a very simple question: Where the hell is Metal Gear: Rising? It's now mid-November, and the game surfaced briefly, with a teaser trailer hinting at some sort of Rising announcement at the Spike VGAs. More »
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