Metal Gear Solid

Job Listing Mentions New Metal Gear “Development”

Metal Gear Solid 4 was a big hit. Konami isn’t ready to walk away from the franchise anytime soon. (Example: Metal Gear Solid Touch.) A Konami job listing shows how eager the company is. The job listing is for an experience programmer and mentions mostly the obvious: Staff wanted for home console games and cell…

New Metal Gear Figure As Expensive As It Is Orange

Behold, Medicom’s “Naked Snake – Cold War Version”. He costs $190, stands 12″ tall, comes with a ton of accessories and will be out towards Christmas. And yes, that really says $190.

Konami Smacks Down 100+ Metal Gear Online Accounts

Konami told Metal Gear Online gamers that it’s “taken action” against 113 alleged cheaters. From the tone of the announcement, it sounds like a response to months of complaining of glitching and other abuses. Here’s the note Konami sent out to players late yesterday afternoon: Konami has a firm policy regarding cheating in Metal Gear…

Snake Makes a Solid Tat

There seems to be no shortage of the impressive art gamers are both willing to pay for and have etched into their skin. Reader Aaron S. – I believe emailing from Japan but I could be wrong – sent us that one, which he says is a picture of his friend. Not him. Because that’s…

Rent 15 Movies That Influenced Metal Gear Solid

That’s Hideo Kojima. He makes Metal Gear Solid games and really likes movies — that last part is hard to believe, we know. Kojima has teamed up with video rental shop Tsutaya and wants to recommend 15 flicks that influenced the Metal Gear Solid series. The campaign is taking place at Tsutayas in Tokyo, Osaka,…

Kojima “Addicted” To Left 4 Dead, Considers Renouncing His Japanese Status

The man behind Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima, has got Left 4 Dead fever, a first-person shooter addiction rare in the typical Japanese video game fan. “Maybe I should quit being Japanese,” Kojima joked. In a newly published Famitsu interview, by way of 1UP, the Kojima Productions head worries further about the disparity between Japanese…