Metal Gear Solid

PlayStation Classic: The Kotaku Review

PlayStation Classic is a faithful reproduction of the experience of playing original PlayStation games in the mid-1990s. In that respect, it succeeds. What it lacks is passion. This piece originally appeared 11/27/18. We’re bumping it today for the PlayStation Classic’s release. With Nintendo roundly rejecting the idea of a Nintendo 64 Classic in the foreseeable…

Metal Gear Mecha Brought To Life As A Small Robot

Students at the Aichi Institute of Technology in Japan have built a miniature robot version of the Metal Gear Solid 4 Rex mecha. And yes, it moves. The parts were customize built and then wired Here is the Rex robot in action Cool project!

Fan Recreates Metal Gear Solid In Lego Worlds

A fan tribute to Metal Gear Solid is always welcome, but when it comes with a hefty helping of Lego it is hard to ignore. Lego Worlds has allowed for some really fascinating creations, including a Dark Souls replication, and YouTube user Craig Kelly has used the extensive Lego tools to do an incredible job…

Metal Gear Solid’s Intro Has Been Remade In Unreal Engine 4

It’s been 20 years this week since the release of the original, groundbreaking Metal Gear Solid, and to celebrate a fan has taken the 1998 game’s intro movie and completely remade it in Unreal Engine 4. Here’s the original in all its blocky glory: And here’s the new version made by Erasmus Brosdau, which not…

Metal Gear Retrospective: Snake’s Punishment Begins

Metal Gear wants the player to fail. The game’s rough edges are part of the growing pains of an early genre, but taken in the context of the entire Metal Gear series, these challenges also feel like horrifying defense mechanisms. As Solid Snake infiltrates Outer Heaven, the player intrudes upon the game’s world. Neither are…

Real-Life Metal Gear Solid Sneaking Game Coming To Tokyo

Starting September 12, a Metal Gear Solid-themed real-life stealth game will open in Tokyo’s Shinjuku. Just like in Metal Gear Solid, the real-life game lets players sneak into Shadow Moses, avoiding detection to destroy a Metal Gear. According to the game’s official Mystery Circus site (via SoraNews and AnimeNewsNetwork), a team of one to three…

Fans Congratulate Metal Gear Solid On 20 Years

Twenty years ago today Metal Gear Solid was first released on the PlayStation. Fans have been uploading images, art and memories to say thanks. While Metal Gear Solid was released on September 3, 1998, it was released the following month on October 20 in North America.

I Never Knew About The Amazing Throwback Mission In Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is an interesting experience, but I can’t say that I’ve thought much about it since the release of The Phantom Pain back in 2015. Now a let’s play series has got me appreciating an excellent mission that I missed before. Chip and Ironicus are some of my favorite let’s…

David Hayter Returns As Voice Of Snake In Touching Metal Gear Solid Tribute

David Hayter, who voiced Metal Gear Solid protagonists Solid Snake and Naked Snake until he was replaced by Kiefer Sutherland in Metal Gear Solid V, has returned to the former role in a short video produced by filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts in celebration of the Metal Gear franchise’s 31st anniversary. The video was posted earlier this…

Check Out Some Concept Art For The Upcoming Metal Gear Solid Movie

Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island) is directing the Metal Gear Solid movie, and to get the pre-production ball rolling he’s got some of the best artists on the planet to create some very early concept art. Vogt-Roberts personally commissioned the artists—many of whom we’ve featured here on Fine Art previously—as part of the visual development…

Metal Gear Solid, Only With An Anime Intro

Oh hey, people are still doing this anime intro thing, excellent. This one’s for the original Metal Gear Solid It’s weird, at the time this game looked amazing. Then for a very long time people thought its crude 3D visuals looked like shit. Now it looks amazing once more, and we can rejoice in the…

Konami Updates Metal Gear Solid V: TPP, Makes Quiet Playable On FOBs

In July 2017, Konami updated Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, making Ocelot playable. Now a year later, the game has been updated once again. This time, Quiet is playable. It’s not possible to change the character’s outfit, and the character has no other head options. The update also brings new items, such as…

Bumbling Canadian Robbery Video Is Even Better With Metal Gear Solid Sounds

That botched Canadian convenience store robbery was funny enough on its own, but set to Metal Gear music and sound effects—thank you, Omar Villegas—it’s a work of art.

David Hayter Returns To Metal Gear For A Bomberman Game

Super Bomberman R kinda came and went last year, but Konami have since decided to go the Smash Bros. route with the game and start hyping up post-release guest appearances like wrestler Xavier Woods and some guys from Metal Gear, including Snake, who will be voiced be series stalwart David Hayter. Hayter—synonymous with the role,…

We streamed all of Metal Gear Solid this weekend, sneaking around cameras and talking all things Kojima. If you missed out, here’s the full playthrough

We’re playing Metal Gear Solid live now on Twitch until we finish! Expect wolves, ketchup, gunfights, and sunglasses. If you think you’re up to it, come and join the chat, rookie. 

Metal Gear Survive: The Kotaku Review

Metal Gear Survive is wreckage of the long battle between the series’ lead creator, Hideo Kojima, and Konami, his long-time employer who ditched him three years ago. Kojima split with Konami after a lifetime of making Metal Gear games, going back to the first in 1987. Survive is Konami’s attempt to make a new one…

Metal Gear Voice Actor Reads The Mueller Indictment As Colonel Campbell

Last Friday, United States Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals over a widespread campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election in an effort that sounds like a Metal Gear plot. So, naturally, the voice actor for Colonel Campbell has done a dramatic reading of the the more sensational segments. Mueller’s indictment…

Early On, Metal Gear Survive Goes Between Being Fun And Frustrating

The Metal Gear series’ future was uncertain after creator Hideo Kojima left Konami. Metal Gear Survive tosses away stealth and politics in favor of zombies and loot. I’ve played about five hours of the game and so far, while it captures the feeling of braving the wilderness, it’s also a slow grind. Metal Gear Survive…

The official Metal Gear Twitter account states that Metal Gear Solid V’s recent nuclear disarmament was a false alarm Servers were sent false numbers that concluded there were no nukes. Looks like you need to invade a few more FOBs, soldier!