Metal Gear Solid

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…

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…

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…

“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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Tank Box Has Arrived

As seen at Konami’s booth at the Tokyo Game Show.

Torture In Video Games

At PAX, I had the good fortune to catch Bethesda’s Brink demo. While there was a lot of cool stuff in the game worth blogging about, what stuck with me was the use of torture in the game. Of course, the game doesn’t call it torture. I think the term they use is “extreme interrogation…

Metal Gear Style Cardboard Box Prison Escape

There’s a device in the Metal Gear Solid stealth series in which Snake can sneak past guards by simply covering himself in a cardboard box. This isn’t just a game convention. It apparently really works. In France, at least. (And Germany. This latest escape is not to be confused with a similar cardboard box escape…

You’re Confused About Metal Gear? Hideo Kojima Is Confused, Too

Let’s be honest here, the Metal Gear Solid saga is hard to follow. Fascinating and intricate, sure, but like a daytime soap with clones, nanomachines and mechas. Don’t worry if you are baffled at times. Series creator Hideo Kojima gets baffled, too, scratching his noggin while figuring out plot points. “I personally get confused too…

Konami Re-Issuing Classic PS2 Titles (Metal Gear, ZOE, etc)

With no announcement and no fanfare, Konami Europe have begun slipping brand new copies of some of the company’s finest PS2 games back onto shelves in the United Kingdom “We’ve manufactured certain amounts depending on the title,” a Konami spokesperson has told Eurogamer, “and they’re being bought by wholesalers so will likely pop up in…

Konami Sales Suck When There’s No Metal Gear Solid Around

Konami just released their quarterly earnings for the period April 1 to June 30, 2009. And across the board, sales are way, way down. Wonder why that could be? Yeah, you guessed it; this time last year, people were buying millions of copies of Metal Gear Solid 4. This year? People aren’t buying Metal Gear…

No Snickering, Games Climax Too Late

Grumpy complaints about bad game endings are not news. But a podcast complaint that games don’t have what they called “falling action” and “denouements” in high school? That’s worth being grumpy about. A listener of the Listen Up podcast recently asked the show’s hosts to talk about the poor quality of game endings. The listener…