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Yesterday, Japanese game designer Hideo Kojima posted a photo of himself wearing the jacket actor Ryan Gosling wore in the movie Drive. But Kojima, best known for his Metal Gear games, didn't call it a "jacket". No, the famed designer called the coat something else: a sukajan. More »
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Launching back in 2008 with Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Online, the online Metal Gear spin-off, had 1.3 million members at one point in 2009. This summer, Metal Gear Online is going offline. The game's service is finished, Konami stated today. More »
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The man? That's Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. The jacket? That's a replica of Ryan Gosling's from the movie Drive. With Hollywood's big night looming, a little Oscar party cosplay, perhaps? 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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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 »
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Ashley Wood's threeA toy company has for years been teasing the release of a figure based on Metal Gear Rex. Why the wait? Because, um, it's as big as a dog. 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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Just in case you ever wanted to know what Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima looked like as a wee lad, well, now you know, courtesy of the man's own Twitter account. 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 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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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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The first official screenshots for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are now on the brand new Metal Gear Solid website (where, oddly, the age-gate only goes back to 1960... stay away, old people!). 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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It appears the trailer for the next Metal Gear game, Metal Gear Rising, has leaked ahead of the Spike Video Game Awards. If it's real, it contains an interesting little conclusion. 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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I am pretty much the biggest Metal Gear Solid fan there is, and I really, really hope that Metal Gear Solid 5 doesn't happen. More »
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Originally Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D was supposed to be out this December. Then, at September's Tokyo Game Show, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima said the game would be out in early 2012. More »
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The cries of "Metal Gear Solid 5 confirmed!" that rang out across the internet last week were silenced today, as the Official PlayStation Magazine reveals what exactly legendary developer Hideo Kojima said regarding a potential sequel in its latest issue. Should you be excited? Probably, at some point. More »
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Hideo Kojima said that he might want to do something other than Metal Gear. He even enlisted the help of Kotaku readers to get him out of Solid Snake's shadow. But, instead, he's doing more talking about Tactical Espionage Action. 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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If you populate your desk with figurines and models, no doubt you choose your plastic and resin statues carefully. What you choose, says much about you. And if, next January, you select this Metal Gear Rex, it will say this: You have excellent taste. More »
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In Metal Gear Solid IV, Snake has a little robot companion called the Metal Gear Mk. II. And one day, you might have one of your own. More »
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In English, idol Haruna Kojima from pop group AKB48 has the same last name as Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. Know what that means? Kojima word plays! More »
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Hideo Kojima, creator of stealth series Metal Gear, and his team are approving a series of figurines based on Metal Gear Solid characters. More »
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Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima posted this drawing of Metal Gear Solid character Raiden. It's not clear if this is just a drawing or whether it's in relation to the upcoming title Metal Gear Solid: Rising, which stars Raiden. More »
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After every Metal Gear game he makes, Hideo Kojima usually says he's done with the series. Sometimes Kojima even asks Kotaku readers to tell his boss that he doesn't have to make Metal Gear games anymore. This time, it's different. More »
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If you follow Hideo Kojima on Twitter, then you know that Solid Snake's daddy was talking at the University of Southern California last night. But he didn't tweet about what he talked about. More »
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Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series—which turns 25 next year—says he's drawn influence from four video games above all others. They are four very different games, each "very important" he says. What are they? More »
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The tactical espionage action of Metal Gear Solid meets the world-conquering strategy of Risk for Australia-nuking, Outer Haven-occupying fun with RISK: Metal Gear Solid. You can get it now. And now might be a very good time to do so. More »
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Video games have so many iconic sound effects—hearing the simple "ga-ling!" of the Nintendo coin can invoke a nostalgia as powerful as any memory of actually playing a game. From the Mario's three-note warp-pipe descent to Simon Belmont's famous whip, all games feature sounds that players will hear over and over and over again until they're drilled into our subconscious. More »
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On Sept. 11, 2001, the world changed forever. Al-Qaeda, the organization Osama bin Laden created, carried out attacks that left thousands dead. The impact was felt around the world. More »
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Soaking up the adoration of the masses at a Tokyo Game Show stage presentation over the weekend, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima dished out some release information regarding two of his company's upcoming remakes. More »
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Konami's TGS booth in 2011 is boring. So boring, in fact, it's not even worth a gallery. But there's someting tucked away inside that is: this fancy Metal Gear and Zone of the Enders swag. More »
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Earlier this year, pin-up Minako Komukai was on the run from Johnny Law. She stood accused of purchasing drugs from a group of Iranian dealers and fled to the Philippines. A warrant was put out for her arrest, and Komukai was an international fugitive. More »
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The latest batch of screens showing off the nicely polished Metal Gear Solid HD Collection seem to have a puzzling fixation on the menus. I suppose it's fitting, as I spent a lot of time in Snake Eater flipping through menus to play dress up, apply makeup, and consume reptiles. And yeah, that probably won't change. More »
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