Metal Gear Solid

The Coolest Mecha In Japanese Video Games

Besides mecha anime, video games also feature some of the most awesomely-designed armoured fighting vehicles. Japanese games—mostly shooters—tend to dominate this field (sorry MechWarrior), so narrowing down our selection to Japenese mecha was an obvious decision from the beginning. Deus (Xenogears) Federation Assault Suit (Cybernator) GEKKO (Metal Gear series) The First Boss in Assault Suit…

This Metal Gear Solid Figure Kept You Waiting

To mark the 25th anniversary of stealth series Metal Gear, Japanese figure maker Kaiyodo is releasing a figure of Naked Snake from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. This figure is part of Kaiyodo’s posable Revoltech Yamaguchi line. The figure will be priced at ¥3,980 (US$43) and will be out on April 15. Pre-orders start on…

Anyone Can Draw Snake from Metal Gear. Um, Maybe Not.

Art is hard. You must practice. But some pictures are easier to draw than you think, once you have the steps. Take Snake from Metal Gear Solid. You can draw Snake. I think. Recently on 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board, a Metal Gear fan provided a nifty how-to for drawing Naked Snake from Metal Gear…

The Most Notable Vampires In Video Games

Surprisingly, blood suckers aren’t as common in video games as you might expect. They might appear as a generic type of enemy, and of course there are a few of them in the Castlevania series. We collected some of these vampires, paying attention to leave out those who like to carry people on their backs.…

Enormous LEGO Metal Gear Rex Is Looking For Tiny Plastic Men To Crush

Not to be outdone by a toy company selling models that are already finished, LEGO builder Rags naRock has his own version of Metal Gear Rex to share. And I dare say it’s more impressive. Using around $900 worth of LEGO parts, the thing is enormous, and if the scale isn’t enough to knock your…

The Biggest, And Most Badass Video Game Toy Of All Time Is Finished

If it feels like we’ve been writing about ThreeA’s Metal Gear Rex figure for years, that’s because we have been Over three years later and the thing is finally shipping to customers who paid around $500 for the pleasure. It’s also shown up on toy site Rad Toy Review, whose pictures make it look like…

This Snake Is Really Not All That Solid

Because he is made out of balloons, by Bruce Carr. And he looks like he is begging you to kill him. Metal Gear Solid [via Dorkly]

Damn Gurl, Those Are Some Classy Metal Gear Solid Prints

Check out these awesome Metal Gear Solid prints by illustrator Marinko Milosevski. They’re all excellent, and available for purchase here. Click to enlarge. If Metal Gear Solid isn’t your thing, there are also a couple of other cool ones featured in the store for franchises like The Legend of Zelda as well as Metroid.

J.J. Abrams Should Direct the Metal Gear Movie

While in Los Angeles for the Video Game Awards, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima squeezed in some Hollywood meetings: One was with producer Avi Arad; the other was with filmmaker J.J. Abrams. The tweets didn’t exactly offer any details. In one, Kojima said he had a meeting with Arad about the movie. In the other,…

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima doesn’t want to be “the Metal Gear guy”. So, maybe make something else?

Metal Gear’s Stealth is Creepy, Annoying in the Real World

It’s entirely acceptable behaviour in desolate military installations and remote jungles, but busting out Snake’s repertoire of stealth moves in public places is a little less advisable. Metal Gear Solid in Real Life (Public Trolling) FINAL CUT [YouTube]

The next Metal Gear Online will be developed in LA, says Hideo Kojima.

Hideo Kojima Might Work on the Metal Gear Movie Script [Update]

In late August, a new Metal Gear Solid movie was announced. This wasn’t the first Metal Gear project Hollywood had seen: back in 2008, there was another MGS film that never got off the ground. Some fans are probably happy about the possibility of seeing Metal Gear Solid on the big screen. Others are not.…

The Brand New Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengeance Trailer (And Its Sexy New Bad Guys)

At Tokyo Game Show 2012, Hideo Kojima revealed the latest trailer for Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengeance. In the new trailer, 3 new enemy bosses are revealed. View each image to see who they are. The new trailer also shows Raiden’s slicing combat system in action, as well as his hacking of an enemy drone.…

Metal Gear Phone Games Sure Have Come a Long Way

The last big Metal Gear for a phone was 2009’s Metal Gear Solid Touch. It was…look, I’ll be kind and say it was serviceable. Only three years later we’ve come quite some way. Thanks, advancing mobile phone technology! I don’t know how this is going to play, but I imagine Metal Gear fans will be…

Metal Gear’s Insane Plot, as Told by Someone Who Hasn’t Played the Games

The wonderful Zac Gorman gets more detailed about the plot for the Metal Gear games than I could ever manage. He’s pretty much spot-on, right? The plot to the Metal Gear Solid series as described by someone who has never played it [Magical Game Time]

Here’s Another Kojima-Ordered Look at Snake, to Prove He’s Not a Geezer in Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear fans thought they were getting Old Snake a second time after viewing the 10-minute in-game demonstration of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, which series creator Hideo Kojima said was a misperception created by backlighting. Still, people continued to press the issue. So Kojima asked an artist to remove the goggles from this promotional…

Raiden, You’d Make a Wonderful Teenage Manga Character

Japanese manga artist Hiro Mashima (Rave, Fairy Tail) was blown away by Raiden at the recent Metal Gear Solid event. So, he decided to do his take on the character—see above! The result looks younger—like a manga character should—and quite different from the way Konami’s in-house artist and character designer Yoji Shinkawa draws the character.…

Relax, Snake Isn’t an Old Man in the New Metal Gear

We’ve already seen Old Snake—heck, we had a whole game with him. While the promotional artwork for Metal Gear Sold: Ground Zeroes shows a younger looking Snake (Naked Snake), the game’s debut footage seems to show an older looking one. Or does it? Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima attempted to clear up the confusion on…

How to Annoy Metal Gear‘s Creator: Ask Him About Project Ogre

Remember when Hideo Kojima jokingly told Kotaku readers to petition Konami so that he didn’t have to make Metal Gear Solid anymore? Good times. But as the stunning debut trailer for the newest Metal Gear Solid, the open world game MGS: Ground Zeroes, proves, yes, Hideo Kojima does have to make Metal Gear Solid. That’s…