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Metal Gear Solid Voice Actor Directing Edgy, Twilightesque Werewolf Movie
David Hayter is best known for being the English voice actor for the character of Snake in the Metal Gear Solid video games. He also has a movie career. Not only has he penned the screenplay for X-Men, but he also worked on the Watchmen script and co-wrote The Scorpion King. Hayter will soon be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 30, 2010 -
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Co-op In Hot Three-way Action
We’ve already seen double the Snake-sneaking action in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, perhaps the Biggest Deal to hit the PSP this summer. What about three Snakes buddying up for “super co-op weapon Railgun” thrills? Yes, we’ve seen two, now we see three, and we’re sure to see four Snakes/Big Bosses teaming up for cooperative…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 25, 2010 -
Kotaku Census 2010: The Games You Love
The machines you play on are one thing, but what really captures a gamer’s heart is the games they play. So let’s see which are your favourites. Now, unlike our previous polls, this one has the potential to be a little more wide-ranging. A little more open. There are only a handful of gaming machines…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2010 -
Peace Walker Has The Stuff Of A “Masterpiece”
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima cannot be clear enough. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker isn’t just some PSP game. Oh no. Kojima has called Peace Walker a “MGS5-class game” — it was later revealed that Peace Walker was going to be called Metal Gear Solid 5. The game is all Kojima’s idea and just…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 12, 2010 -
Little Snake Has A Little Copy Of Metal Gear Solid 3
You may remember reader Mark, who sent us his awesome, custom Half-Life 2 figure. Well, Mark’s back, with this amazing custom Metal Gear Solid 3 figure. This custom job goes beyond the usual trend of taking an existing action figure and painting over some slight additions. Mark sculpted an all-new head entirely by hand, cannibalised…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 23, 2010 -
Metal Gear Solid: The Pizza Walker?
A Liverpool pizza parlor has a very familiar logo. As seen by reader Rob.
By Owen Good Published February 15, 2010 -
What’s Hideo Kojima Eating Right Now? Check Twitter!!
Metal Gear makers Kojima Productions have been riding the Twitter bandwagon since September of last year, but the developer’s interest in providing 140 character length updates has been sporadic at best. No longer! The Konami subsidiary, ramping up enthusiasm for the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PSP, has been on something of…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 15, 2010 -
How Does Konami Do Without Metal Gear Solid?
Konami has a handful of big franchises, but its biggest are Metal Gear Solid and Pro Evolution Soccer. Last year, a Pro Evo game was released, but other than an iPhone game, no MGS. How did that affect the company? The Tokyo-based game company has announced its consolidated results for the nine months ending on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 4, 2010 -
Kojima Apologizes; Says ‘No Greater Crime’ than a Delay
Hideo Kojima is taking the delay (in Japan) of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker very seriously, and has posted a personal mea culpa asking for fans’ forgiveness and their continued trust. “I always preach to the staff, ‘You must not have a delay after a release date has been announced. There is no greater crime…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
What Snake Would Look Like…If He’d Been In Toy Story
Hot on the heels of Michael Lau’s take on Snake as a vinyl collectible comes toy company Medicom’s effort, with this pair of exclusive Japan-only figures. Available only at Wonder Festival 2010 Winter early next month, and in extremely limited quantities, they’ll be ¥8190 each (USD$90). The clear, stealth camo version will probably be the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 28, 2010 -
“Piece Walker” Meaning Revealed
The meaning behind Konami’s “Piece Walker” teaser from last month was revealed today. And it’s not a portal, nor a demo or a new project. It’s just some jigsaw puzzle. Well, the puzzle hasn’t launched just yet, but that’s what it’ll be, likely a Flash game. It gets going at 3 p.m. Thursday (Japan time,…
By Owen Good Published January 26, 2010 -
Metal Gear Movie Probably Not Happening
What seemed like a match made in heaven, Hollywood and Metal Gear Solid, does not look like it was meant to be. The stealth series, created by game designer Hideo Kojima, was known for its stealth game play and movie style cinematics. Metal Gear Solid looked, if not played, like a motion picture. These cinematic…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 11, 2010 -
Google’s New OS Runs On Metal Gear
In case you missed it, Google unveiled for the first time today their fancy new Chrome operating system. Why do we care? Because its debut trailer managed to sneak in a little Metal Gear, that’s why. Get to around the 1:49 mark of the clip and you’ll see that somebody on the Chrome team likes…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 20, 2009 -
Resident Evil Director ‘Circling’ Castlevania, Metal Gear Movies
Castlevania? Thought that movie project was dead. Apparently not, and apparently Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Death Race, Mortal Kombat) is “waiting on a script.” Oh, and he’d like to adapt Metal Gear Solid for the silver screen, too. That is according to Jeremy Bolt, who is Anderson’s co-producer on Resident Evil: Afterlife. Visiting that…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 -
Metal Gear Rex Figure: Big, Shiny, Enormous
Hong Kong-based toy company threeA will be releasing a Metal Gear Rex figure sometime next year. As you can see from these pics, the detail is incredible. As is the sheer size of the thing. No idea on an exact release date or price, but don’t expect this to be either widely-available or cheap. 3A…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2009 -
Hideo Kojima A “Huge Fan” Of Twilight, Will Judge Your Fan Art
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is apparently a fan of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series, opting in to judge a fan art contest themed around the second entry in the romantic vampire action series, New Moon. That’s according to a release from Japanese artist network pixiv—pretty much the overseas equivalent of deviantArt—which has tapped Kojima,…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 2, 2009 -
Why Games Should Have a Few More Senior Moments
In video games, senior citizens are largely stereotyped NPCs. Rare is the kind of game like Metal Gear Solid 4, with a truly aged, playable protagonist. Can games create more roles for the elderly? Should they? Matthew Kaplan of GameCritics thinks games have a lot of growing up to do, especially as the median age…
By Owen Good Published October 31, 2009 -
Kojima Weighs In on Obama’s Nobel Prize
On his blog, Hideo Kojima found a tie-in, albeit a tenuous one, between his upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama yesterday. Here’s what the eminent games designer had to say: President Obama, who declared ‘A World Without Nuclear Weapons’ in Prague, has won the Nobel Peace…
By Owen Good Published October 10, 2009 -
Another Metal Gear Fan Made Movie
Just like the title says: Another Metal Gear Solid fan movie — no, wait! Don’t go. This one actually looks somewhat professional and is relatively watchable. I know, we’re shocked, too. Written and directed by some guy named Giacomo Talamini, the fan flick claims to be totally non-for-profit and has CG graphics, military vehicles, exotic…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 28, 2009 -
Hideo Kojima Talks Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker And How You Can Help Him
Hideo Kojima hopes that the Metal Gear series will continue beyond his lifetime, the series mastermind told Kotaku during an interview mostly about his new game and a little bit about the times he has hid in cardboard boxes. During a half-hour backroom chat with Kotaku and Kotaku Japan at the Tokyo Game Show on…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 25, 2009