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Hideo Kojima is renowned around the globe for the Metal Gear Solid franchise, but, 20 years ago, he was just a simple programmer, making games all by himself. This week, he went through his achievements and hardships from the days of 8-bit glory to present times. His story was unfolded in the Famitsu magazine by talk... |
5 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Just recently, the man responsible for the critically acclaimed Metal Gear Solid franchise, Hideo Kojima, posted on the company’s blog that he would like to add another sequel in the Zone of the Enders series. The post he made was generally aimed to test the people’s reaction and see how the news would be... |
29 October 2009
09:03 GMT |
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If there's one man in the videogame world who has the expertise to comment on the fact that Barack Obama, the president of the United States, got a Nobel Peace Prize last week, it's Hideo Kojima, the man behind the Metal Gear Solid saga.Here's a full post on his blog addressing the issues. It reads &ld... |
14 October 2009
13:21 GMT |
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We already know that Sony and Kojima Productions are preparing not one but two new Metal Gear Solid videogames for the future. One of them, Rising, should feature Raiden, in his new robot ninja incarnation which was also seen in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, while the other, titled Peace Walker, is set to... |
7 September 2009
17:21 GMT |
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Hideo Kojima is one of the most respected video game designers in Japan, being the mastermind behind the hugely successful and influential Metal Gear Solid franchise from Konami. He has enchanted fans all around the world with the unique stealth gameplay in the series but also with the intense cinematic experience th... |
27 August 2009
13:21 GMT |
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There are certainly many video game franchises out there, many having the background story set in some very complicated universes, filled with intrigue, many characters and huge conflicts that give the respective games even more popularity. One such example is the Metal Gear Solid franchise, which is the brainchild ... |
26 August 2009
02:18 GMT |
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Koji Igarashi is the man whom many associate with the Castlevania series of games, one of the most recognizable franchises published by Konami. So, it was a bit of a surprise when the company showed off Hideo Kojima, the father of the Metal Gear Solid series, as being the one overall in charge of the development proc... |
28 July 2009
02:34 GMT |
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At this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) we saw a lot of extremely interesting announcements, but two of them were foreshadowed by a huge teaser campaign right before the start of the conference: Metal Gear Solid: Rising and MGS: Peace Walker. The two titles, coming from famous game designer Hideo Koji... |
20 July 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Metal Gear Solid fans certainly received a lot of interesting though very teasing pieces of news during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), which took place a few weeks ago. Not one, but two MGS games were announced, in the form of MGS: Rising and MGS: Peace Walker. Konami, the company that will publish both of ... |
17 June 2009
02:16 GMT |
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Hideo Kojima is one of the most prestigious game designers of all time, delivering to players all around the world the stunning experience that is the Metal Gear Solid franchise. His intricate story-telling mechanics and the rich, but sometimes confusing, plot made the series very popular. But, as MGS 4: Guns of the... |
15 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Before the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this year, Hideo Kojima's studio, Kojima Productions, treated us to a very extended and frustrating teaser campaign in order to get some hype around the announcements that the legendary game creator had prepared for the video game conference. There was a heated deba... |
4 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The gaming industry has a few figure heads, people who have shaped the way we play video games and how we perceive the experience that is delivered to us through their creations. One of the most appreciated but at the same time most blamed developers is Hideo Kojima, who is famous for his Metal Gear Solid series of t... |
21 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The gaming industry has a lot of iconic figures in the form of game designers who have shaped the way we play and interact with video games today. One of the most reputed and respected of them is Hideo Kojima, the creator of the extremely popular Metal Gear Solid franchise, a series that intertwined storytelling with... |
16 April 2009
11:21 GMT |
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Hideo Kojima, who is the mind behind the Metal Gear series, delivered a speech at the Game Developers Conference, revealing the way he approached the design of the various Metal Gear titles, highlighting how his philosophy was influenced by the technical limitations of the platform on which he made his games.Kojima t... |
27 March 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Stealth action games have been around for quite some time, but didn't really spark a lot of interest until Japanese designer Hideo Kojima created the famous Metal Gear Solid series. The franchise introduced an elaborate and intricate story focusing on the main character, Solid Snake, a tactical ops special agent... |
17 February 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Many might not know it, but Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima wanted to be a movie director (which can be quickly seen while enjoying the hour long cutscenes in Guns of the Patriots). So, it's no surprise that a Japanese rental chain, Tsutaya, the biggest in the country, teamed up with Konami and Kojima to offer t... |
21 January 2009
17:31 GMT |
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The gaming industry has, like a lot of other areas of entertainment, a few prominent figures, people who shaped the whole idea of gaming and brought innovations to the realms of story telling and gameplay, pushing them to a whole new level. Such a man is Hideo Kojima, best know for the extremely popular Metal Gear So... |
21 January 2009
03:30 GMT |
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The gaming industry has quite a lot of iconic franchises, all of which have brought new things to their individual genres or have even become a benchmark for new titles, even though they were launched a long time ago. Such is the case with the extremely popular Metal Gear Solid series of tactical espionage games, whi... |
16 December 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Did Ryan Payton, former assistant producer of Kojima Productions and heavily involved in the development process for blockbuster Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, just confirm that there's a Metal Gear Solid 5 in development? Judge for yourself. Here's what the guy said while talking to gaming blog... |
27 August 2008
17:00 GMT |
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Even if the Games Convention in Leipzig is officially over, there are still some things of interest that are coming from the event. For example, Metal Gear Solid creator and videogame icon Hideo Kojima has mentioned that Metal Gear Acid games, which are currently available on the PlayStation Portable handheld from So... |
25 August 2008
19:06 GMT |
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What extra stuff can you add to a game like Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots? The game ends a saga, kills off the main character, Solid Snake, and it also wraps up most of the loose threads left by the previous editions. So when Konami initially announced that extra stuff would be made available for the game ... |
8 July 2008
13:56 GMT |
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At the on-going Anime Expo, David Hayter, the man who provided the deep and smoke filled voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, spoke about how he was at odds with the game creator, Hideo Kojima, when it came to some of Snake's scenes in the game.While he praised MGS4 for having le... |
7 July 2008
09:14 GMT |
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Can a publisher like Konami really let go of a franchise that has generated as much revenue as the Metal Gear series? The obvious answer is "no" and it seems that the people at Konami are laying out the framework needed to continue making Metal Gear games, even if they do not feature long standing protagonist Solid S... |
23 June 2008
10:08 GMT |
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There's a rumor out there that Metal Gear Solid might be coming to the Microsoft made Xbox 360. Before you get too excited at the news, please notice the lack of a number next to "Metal Gear Solid." We're not talking about Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the recently launched PlayStation 3 exclusi... |
13 June 2008
18:06 GMT |
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The people that are compiling the Gamer's Edition of the Guinness World Records Book are clearly hard at work because 2008 is set to be one of the most interesting and busy years of the videogame industry. A slew of great games is set to launch this year and there are records to be broken, either by man or by ga... |
6 June 2008
18:11 GMT |
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As the release date for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is approaching fast and as we have our brains tightly wrapped around the question of which "special edition" of the game to pick up, there's good news coming regarding the future of the very acclaimed franchise.Ryan Payton is an associate producer ... |
20 May 2008
02:48 GMT |
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There seems to be no end to the "exclusive" and "collector's" editions that game publishers are coming up with to create a buzz around a game title. The upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is getting another one of these special offers and it's already hard to keep track of them all. Most of t... |
19 May 2008
04:32 GMT |
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Hideo Kojima is a videogame legend because of two things. First, there's the vision of the Metal Gear series and the deep and engaging games that came out of that vision. Second, there's his unrelenting quest to develop the perfect game. And while the "perfect" game is just in itself an impossible task to a... |
21 April 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Metal Gear Solid is one of the foundations of Japanese gaming. The iconic characters it spawned in Solid Snake is instantly recognizable to gamers everywhere, even to those that have never picked up a Metal Gear game in their lives. The themes that the games touch upon are universal, from the militaristic utopias the... |
19 March 2008
05:02 GMT |
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And no, it is not Uwe Boll the man destined to make video game based movies that bomb the box office. Apparently, Kurt Wimmer, the man behind the cult hit 2003 movie Equilibrium, starring up and coming Cristian Bale, is leading the pack of contenders at the moment.Rumors of a Metal Gear Solid movie were around since ... |
17 March 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Can anyone think back to the time when games were shipped on floppy disks? Does anyone remember the joy of receiving your set of 14 floppy disks containing Red Alert? I surely remember the monumental leap that was the CD-ROM, the joy at never having to switch disks in the drive for the first few years. And then, the ... |
3 March 2008
04:24 GMT |
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In most cases, when violence in video games is discussed you can never get a straight answer as to whether it is or it isn't a bad thing for you. There are several points of view to analyze the issue from, but Hideo Kojima's latest interiew may just answer the burning question for everyone. It was none othe... |
7 January 2008
03:02 GMT |
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During his Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots presentation at the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary party today, Hideo Kojima revealed the return of Eva to the stealth-based game series. Eva is an important character originating in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The well-known video game designer did the same thing... |
25 July 2007
04:49 GMT |
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Reliable sources for X3F seem to have some vital information regarding the last installment in the Metal Gear Solid series, MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots. Apparently, the Official Xbox Magazine says that Hideo Kojima's stealth-based game will be also introduced on Microsoft's Xbox 360, just a few months after... |
20 July 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Just yesterday I picked up on an article saying that Konami's Kazumi Kitaue wasn't impressed much by Sony's move of cutting the price on the PS3, going multiplatform with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. However, today, we have confirmation (via Evil Avatar) that Konami's head, Hideo Koji... |
12 July 2007
03:53 GMT |
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As a well known gaming site managed to snag a copy of the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine, some interesting details were revealed today, one of which is Hideo Kojima's 20th anniversary for the Metal Gear series. Below are some excerpts of the interview with the series' creator. Looking back on his e... |
5 July 2007
06:02 GMT |
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So, it looks like MGS 4 for the PS3 is being delayed, to March 1st 2008, as Destructoid reports. That's all right, the PS3 has plenty of games to offer fans...NOT! What is taking developers so long to come up with PS3 games? Haven't they studied the PS3's capabilities so far? Do you know what this mean... |
14 May 2007
07:20 GMT |
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On his trip to Australia for the weekend's GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo held in Perth, MGS series creator talked about the upcoming and most anticipated title of the series yet, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. He revealed that the fourth installment of MGS would use a lot of the good stuff seen wi... |
3 April 2007
05:55 GMT |
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