Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid V Will Be Out September 1

The next big Metal Gear Solid game is coming out this September, according to an inadvertent video leak on IGN. We’ll finally see MGSV: The Phantom Pain on September 1, 2015. For some context: MGS publisher Konami had partnered up with IGN to hype up the game and promise a big announcementfor tomorrow at 9am,…

Metal Gear Ray Pops Up In The Weirdest Place Possible

[“Rules of Nature” lute version playing in the background] That’s a perfect medieval Metal Gear by Deelekgolo created in Besiege

Sure Seems Like The Newest Metal Gear Lets You Smoke Weed

Here’s a small detail that seems to have slipped everyone’s radar. Like many Metal Gear Solid games, the Phantom Pain lets you smoke. Only this time, the game says that the cigar contains a “medicinal herb.” While this “medicinal herb” could be just about anything, The Game Theorists argue that the fact the herb alters…

Meal Gear Solid Fan-Film Is All About Cardboard Boxes

Instead of “Punished Snake” or dramatic monologues in the rain, Fury Fingers‘ Metal Gear short focuses on another aspect of the series. The enemy soldiers in this one chose the worst possible HQ—a warehouse full of Snake’s favorite infiltration aid: cardboard boxes. There’s behind the scenes footage as well with CG tanks and CG boxes.…

PC Modders Turn Metal Gear Solid Into A First-Person Shooter

The Metal Gear Solid games have allowed players to look around in first-person for quite a while, but to play the whole game like an FPS—with convincing movement and decent controls? This looks like a job for modders. The Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes first-person PC mod—which you can see in action courtesy of…

The Solid Snake You Never Knew

Solid Snake: Badass agent. Special ops legend. Unsuccessful illustrator – wait, what? For fans of the Metal Gear Solid games, Solid Snake is an iconic hero with a background steeped in legend. The clone of Big Boss who thwarted multiple potential nuclear catastrophes, the chiseled, bandana-wearing agent is a hardened hero. But back in his…

Killer Metal Gear Cosplay Is A Straight-Shooter

Rick Boer, King of Metal Gear Cosplay, returns with a new take on the series that leaves his regular Snake gig behind for someone a little fancier. If you think this Revolver Ocelot shoot has been heavily photoshopped, nope. That’s hardcore make-up work, all of it applied by Boer himself. Photos here taken by Nathalie…

Metal Gear PC Mod Turns People Into Birds 

You know how you can swap Snake’s model with Hideo Kojima’s in the PC version of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes? Well it seems like that trick isn’t limited to people. The video above is what happens when you overwrite the raven models with Kazuhira Miller’s (and add Queen.) As reddit commenter Einhander pointed…

Fans Make Hideo Kojima Playable in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes came out recently on Steam, and a PC version means one thing: mods. And since a model of game director Hideo Kojima is in the game, why not make him and his model the main character? Skip to 0:59 in the video above to see the true capabilities of…

Hideo Kojima Trolled Everyone On Christmas, Because of Course He Did

On Christmas day, diehard Metal Gear Solid fans faithfully tuned into a broadcast called Kojima Station. The hope was that Kojima would give fans a neat look behind-the-scenes on Metal Gear Solid V. Maybe he’d even give people a release date. Who knows! So fans watched this stream for almost three hours. Kojima opened presents…

Hideo Kojima’s Memories of the PlayStation

Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear franchise, has many stories to tell about his experience with the PlayStation over the past two decades. He was kind enough to share a few of them. “I was in Kobe, and it was in 1993 when the precursor to Kojima Productions, Kaihatsu Gobu (開発5部 trans: Development Section…

Did Hideo Kojima Secretly Reveal Metal Gear Solid V’s Release Date?

Even if you watched The Game Awards last week, it’s easy to miss the detail that some Hideo Kojima fans are obsessing about right now. For most viewers, nothing about Kojima’s presentation of Metal Gear SolidOnline seemed out of the usual. But as fans such as YongYea point out, Kojima’s shirt is worth paying attention…

Your PC Must Be This Solid To Run Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAKE? Oh, sorry about the yelling. Just wanted to know what you’ve got under the hood of your PC. Konami’s released the PC specs for the (phantom) painfully long-awaited PC release ofMetal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, the mini open-world prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Here’s what you’ll need…

I Never Knew Metal Gear Solid Could Be So… Cute

Awwww, Solid Snake is so tiny. And so is Gray Fox. I sure hope nothing bad happens to either of them, ever. This interactive chibi-fied diorama of Metal Gear Solid 1 was put together by Glenatron, and it’s full of nice little touches. It nails the basic style of MGS 1 while also making everyone…

The Metal Gear Solid Fan Film We’ll Never See Finished

Back in 2009, I wrote about a MGS fan film called Metal Gear Solid Philanthropy. Made over the course of years, the one-hour movie looked really good. So does the planned sequel. Make that did Here is a 12-minute “pilot” that the fan flick’s producers hoped to use for crowd-funding a feature-length film. However, this…

Snake, what are you doing? Even if your name is Snake, you don’t have to transform into one! That’s not how you sneak up on enemy guards. Where is your cardboard box? via Sexyserperior [Tumblr] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that…

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is coming to PC in December. The open-world prologue game is hitting Steam on December 18th, to be precise. It came out on consoles earlier this year, and Kirk compared it to (very good) food.

Six Wild Metal Gear Solid V Fan Theories

With TGS and a handful of new Metal Gear Solid V footage behind, Outside Xbox’s clip weaves further the web of never ending fan theories about the game’s plot and the characters’ backgrounds. All of them sound a bit crazy and compelling, but my favorite is the one that says the mute sniper Quiet is…

P.T.‘s Unfriendly Ghost Pops Up In Metal Gear Solid V

When it comes to cross-game cameos, Hideo Kojima does not waste time. Fresh from scaring the pants off of players in the playable teaser for Silent Hills, Lisa is prepped to terrorize enemies in The Phantom Pain. She’s just as scary in this video captured from the Tokyo Game Show 2014 stream as she was…

Snake’s New Best Friend Is A Wolf Named DD

Snake has a new best friend in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. And thus was Call of Duty Dog completely forgotten. Because a scantily-clad sniper is hardly man’s best friend, Snake has another A.I. companion to aid him in next year’s epic adventure. Snake finds DD — short for Diamond Dog — in…