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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.…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 5, 2012

Kotaku East

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…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 5, 2012

Kotaku East

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…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 3, 2012

Watch 11 Minutes Of Stunning In-Game Footage From Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes

This is the unreal footage from Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes that director Hideo Kojima showed off at an event today in Seattle. Ground Zeroes is a prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5, Kojima said at the event. As you can see, it looks pretty damn good. Enjoy the video. [Update] Here is another video,…

By Jason Schreier Published September 1, 2012

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Is A Prologue To Metal Gear Solid 5

The next Metal Gear Solid game is considered a prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5, director Hideo Kojima said today at a PAX presentation. He also showed off some stunning gameplay footage from the upcoming open-world game. Snake is back: and he actually looks younger than he did in Metal Gear Solid 4. The original…

By Jason Schreier Published September 1, 2012

Let’s Help Hollywood Find the Perfect Snake for the Metal Gear Movie

Hollywood is making a Metal Gear movie! Again! It sounds like production on the flick is just getting started (again). The project has a producer, but there’s no word of a director or screenwriter. More importantly, who is going to play Snake? Getting the jump on those big time Hollywood casting agents, Kotaku is here…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 31, 2012

Three Reasons Most Video Game Movies Don’t Work, and One Why I Hope a Metal Gear Solid Movie Will

Film adaptations of popular games are almost as inevitable as game adaptations of films—and often, just as terrible. Early this morning, we learned that Konami once again have plans to take Metal Gear Solid to the silver screen. The film seems to be in the very early planning stages, so it’s too soon to say…

By Kate Cox Published August 30, 2012

No Metal Gear Solid 5, But Here’s All of Last Night’s Big Metal Gear News

In Tokyo earlier today, Konami held a 25th anniversary party for Metal Gear. Twenty five years! The time has just flown by. If you were hoping for Metal Gear 5, you’re going to be disappointed. But if you were hoping to be wowed, then wowed you will be. Here are the highlights from the event:…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012

Kotaku East

Want 800 Pages of Metal Gear? How About Metal Gear Tights?

Today at the 25th anniversary event for Metal Gear, Konami showed off a slew of Metal Gear related goods. Some of them you might want. Some, you might not. There was the usual array of gaming t-shirts (here, a collaboration between Uniqlo and Konami) as well as the more unusual: Metal Gear tights. They are…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012

Kotaku East

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Looks To Be Full Of Clichés, But It Has a Chainsaw-Wielding Robot Dog

After initially being announced back in 2009 as Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and rebranded in 2011 after facing cancellation, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance looks like it’s “gearing” up for its finishing lap before release with some new info (pardon the pun). In an announcement in this week’s Weekly Famitsu. Konami has revealed the sword-wielding cyborg,…

By Toshi Nakamura Published August 30, 2012

Metal Gear Is Going Hollywood (Again) with a New Movie

For years now, there has been chatter of a Metal Gear Solid movie. The project was at one time moving forward. Then, it seemed to die. Today, Konami stated that the movie is back on. Metal Gear Solid is going Hollywood. At today’s Metal Gear Anniversary event in Tokyo, photos show banners with the slogan…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2012

Culture

Metal Gear Ain’t Metal Gear Without Yoji Shinkawa’s Iconic Art

Last year, Fine Art looked at Ashley Wood’s contribution to the Metal Gear universe with his scratchy, chaotic images. While those have become popular of late, for many long-time fans the man they think of first when they think of Metal Gear’s look is Yoji Shinkawa. Beginning his career on cult hit Policenauts, Shinkawa quickly…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 9, 2012

Kotaku East

HD Games Are Like Putting on Tons of Make-Up. Wait, What?

While I can appreciate the skill and art that goes into make up, I find this Sony teaser to be baffling. It’s comparing HD editions of video games to a woman being made up. The central point is that a woman whose face is covered in make up is the same woman underneath. But the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 31, 2012

We Will See The Tech Behind The Next Metal Gear Solid On August 30

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima will show off his new Fox Engine on August 30, he said in an interview posted on the PlayStation blog today The Fox Engine, which Kojima and his team have been developing since the release of Metal Gear Solid 4 in 2008, will run the next Metal Gear Solid…

By Jason Schreier Published July 23, 2012

This Truly is The Box Solid Snake Belongs In

It’s almost like a Wheel of Fortune-style before-and-after. “Solid Snake in a box” + “a box full of kittens” = “Solid Snake in a box full of kittens!” The artists, Becky & Frank of webcomic Tiny Kitten Teeth, painted this particular rendition of Solid Snake (“in his natural habitat,” they explain) for artist Olly Moss,…

By Kate Cox Published July 20, 2012

Konami Shoots Down Metal Gear Solid 5 Rumors

Konami has denied rumors that Metal Gear Solid 5 was revealed at San Diego Comic Con this past weekend, calling them fake on its UK Twitter account today. Earlier this morning, some Redditors claimed that Konami had announced the fifth installment in its popular stealth-action series during Comic Con, posting the above image as proof.…

By Jason Schreier Published July 16, 2012

Kotaku East

Hideo Kojima Never Expected Metal Gear Solid To Do Well In The West

The Metal Gear series is 25 years old this year. From its modest beginnings on the MSX2 console (the what?), to its big break on the Playstation with Metal Gear Solid and now with the highly anticipated Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Metal Gear has come a long way to become a globally popular series. But…

By Toshi Nakamura Published July 12, 2012

Kotaku East

One Day Metal Gear Solid Could Evolve into Metal Gear…Social

Listen up, social butterlfies. Stealth series Metal Gear might eventually contain social game elements. According to creator Hideo Kojima, social and core games will evolve together, until they converge. “I think in the future maybe Metal Gear will change in certain ways to integrate social aspects,” Kojima told website CVG. “If you look at other…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 11, 2012

People Thought Hideo Kojima Was “Crazy” When He Said He Wanted to Make Video Games

When Hideo Kojima started out in the games industry, he met a lot of people like himself, would-be creators like him who had set other life goals for themselves. The famed game designer wanted to make movies but never found a path to that aspiration and he worked with many others who got into games…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 24, 2012

Another Enormous, Expensive Metal Gear Figure

Though it was unveiled last month at an event in Hong Kong, it was tough to get an idea of the scale of threeA’s Metal Gear Ray figure until now. And boy, it’s just as big and ridiculously excessive as the company’s Metal Gear Rex was That “small” figure underneath it is Square Enix’s Cyborg…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 24, 2012