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A new Silent Hill is going to be out and in gamers' hands on December 8, as Konami has announced a new installment in the series. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will be brought to the Nintendo's Wii, but PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable users will have to hold their breath a little longer. Unfortunat... |
13 November 2009
07:26 GMT |
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Japan's game industry found itself with a rusty sword and a torn haori after this year's first fiscal financial report. The coy earnings could be explained by many factors, which include the global crisis we experienced, but the bottom line is the same. Konami and Namco Bandai have all suffered a profit def... |
6 November 2009
07:03 GMT |
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The PlayStation Portable Go is coming out in Japan on October 31, this Sunday. Kojima Productions will join the event and will release the demo for their latest game, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, whose playable teaser will be launched along with the new console and will be listed on the Play Station Network. The d... |
29 October 2009
07:20 GMT |
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Apparently, the people who work on bringing Solid Snake to life aren't the vicious, macho men that you might expect. Even more so, Kojima's employees drown themselves in one of their own games, but it has nothing to do with the popular Metal Gear Solid franchise. The title that got these Japanese workers lo... |
29 October 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Shadow of Destiny first saw the light of day in March 2001 on the PlayStation 2, but, after almost nine years of peaceful slumber, it seems like Konami plans to unearth the game and once again tell its tale. It has just announced that it is currently working on porting the adventure title to the PlayStation Portable.... |
23 October 2009
05:29 GMT |
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The latest game in the ReBirth series will be Castlevania: The Adventure, the very first installment in the Castlevania franchise on the Game Boy. The facelift it received has brought it closer to the Super Nintendo's standards and, if the gods do well by us, the game will bring many other distinguishing feature... |
22 October 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Konami has announced that it plans to release the new Dance Dance Revolution on the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 2 home-gaming console from Sony on October 27. The Wii version of the title will have Hottest Party 3 added to its name, while the PS3 version will be called X2. The overall library of Dance Dace Revo... |
22 October 2009
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We already know that another Resident Evil movie is coming and that Milla Jovovich would be reprising her role as Alice while her husband Paul W.S. Anderson will continue with his duties as director of the feature. But until now, no details have been released related to the plot of the movie.The official synopsis of ... |
12 October 2009
07:42 GMT |
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The string of videogame to movie adaptations seems to never end and today brings news of the possibility that a Silent Hill 2 movie might be helmed by the same screenwriter and producer team that worked on the first release. Roger Avary and Samuel Hadida are set to create a sequel to the 2006 project.The movie should... |
16 September 2009
03:20 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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As most of you know, the GamesCon is in full swing in Cologne, Germany, and we've already been host to a lot of interesting announcements, from the PS3 Slim to Fable III and everything in between. But Japanese developer and publisher Konami also had some important news to share as it delivered a concrete releas... |
20 August 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 has had a troubled life up until now. As it was one of the last current-generation consoles to appear, it left a wide amount of time for the Xbox 360 to dictate the rules by which gamers play video games these days. One important aspect are achievements, which Sony tried to replicate with the troph... |
12 August 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Konami has announced that fans of the Metal Gear Solid series will be able to purchase its Metal Gear Solid Touch iPhone game at a discount during August 13-15, when the game will be downloadable for just $2.99 on the App Store. Konami is one of the world’s best-known developers and manufacturers of electronic... |
11 August 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Konami is announcing that it plans to release a new game called Tornado Outbreak set to arrive on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Nintendo Wii on September 15. The title is focused, as the name implies, on the player controlling a tornado as it chews through the scenery of the game an... |
4 August 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Konami Digital Entertainment has announced that it is producing and releasing a new horror videogame named Calling, which is being developed by Hudson Soft. The game is only being created for the Nintendo Wii and the publisher hopes to have it out in early 2010.The big selling point of Calling, which Konami is emphas... |
14 July 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Konami Digital Entertainment has sent word that it plans to publish a new Nintendo Wii title called Walk It Out, which is set to offer a new twist on the fitness genre. Unlike Wii Fit from Nintendo or EA Sports Active from Electronic Arts, which are focused on offering yoga exercises or more hardcore strength trainin... |
13 July 2009
03:31 GMT |
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Sports games generate quite a lot of money for the companies responsible for them, especially as they allow to be exploited every year in the form of new iterations, each with a couple of new things added to the core gameplay mechanics. One of the most popular European football or soccer simulators is Konami's ... |
10 July 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Sports games are always huge money makers as a lot of people prefer both sports like American football or European soccer alongside playing video games at home. If the two are combined, the profit possibilities are quite high for any company involved in such a thing.European football simulators have always experience... |
24 June 2009
03:04 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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You can't really put a good war game down. At least that is what Peter Tamte, the leader of the Atomic Games development outfit, believes when it comes to his own Six Days in Fallujah, the game that was initially supposed to be published by Konami before being unceremoniously dropped immediately after the first ... |
10 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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At the E3 trade show, Konami announced that its Madrid-based Mercury Steam studio was working on a new Castlevania title, called Lords of Shadow. The game is being created in collaboration with Kojima Productions and Hideo Kojima himself is set to oversee it. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is set to be released in 2010... |
9 June 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Taking advantage of the popularity of Lionel Messi, the Barcelona star player who decided the fate of the recent Champions League final in which his team faced Manchester United, Konami unveiled a new trailer for Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 at the E3 trade show this year, putting the talented attacker front and center.... |
4 June 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Konami Digital Entertainment has announced that the much hyped new Metal Gear videogame is set to be released for the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony. The game has officially been named Metal Gear Solid: Rising (although the Solid moniker was said to be retired after the release of Met... |
2 June 2009
06:58 GMT |
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The Konami countdown related to Metal Gear has offered gamers some new images and one letter to speculate about. An inspection of the images introduced shows a close up of Big Boss and a letter like R or P flashing on the screen.Big Boss is one of the most important characters in the initial Metal Gear game, as he co... |
27 May 2009
18:11 GMT |
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The timer featured on the Konami teaser page related to the next Metal Gear game has reached the end of its countdown. And it has revealed a new one, which is set for 120 hours.But the content on the site has been changed a little and apparently those who looked at it closer were able to discern the message ‘5@... |
22 May 2009
15:51 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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Konami seems to be preparing to take home the award for “Most Annoying Use of a Teaser Trailer.” The company has said for some time that it would be introducing a teaser site related to its next videogames.Then, the same company introduced an ad in the highly popular Famitsu magazine in Japan and now the ... |
18 May 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Six Days in Fallujah was a controversial project from the moment it was announced. In part it was due to the sensitive issues that it sought to tackle, in part it was because Atomic Games, the developer, and Konami, the publisher, could not agree whether they were aiming for “just a videogame” or for a &l... |
28 April 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Konami's mobile division has released its arcade hit title, Silent Scope, for iPhone and iPod touch. It is based on the popular arcade game originally released in 1999, and is now available in the iTunes App Store for $5.99. According to Konami, the iPhone / iPod touch version of Silent Scope has players testing... |
24 April 2009
09:29 GMT |
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Konami Digital Entertainment has announced that it is developing a new Karaoke Revolution videogames set to arrive on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Nintendo Wii.Konami is emphasizing that this is the only karaoke videogame available on all the current gen consoles and also expects f... |
23 April 2009
03:21 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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Horror games have been very popular for quite some time, as a lot of players are lured in by the eerie atmosphere and the heightened sense of awareness, which one needs in order to “survive” these titles. Konami has been a specialized developer in this genre for quite some time, as its Silent Hill franchi... |
15 April 2009
03:43 GMT |
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The gaming industry has been on high alert in the last few days, ever since Konami announced that it would release a game based on the battles in Iraq, more specifically on the Operation Phantom Fury, which was the second battle the US Marines fought in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The game, entitled Six Days in Fall... |
14 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Video games have been around for quite some time, and it hasn't been long since zombies joined in on the fun, as they have been featured in a wide variety of titles over the years. But recently, largely due to Valve's extremely solid and successful Left 4 Dead, the undead have gained a new amount of popular... |
14 April 2009
11:21 GMT |
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After Konami, as the publisher, and Atomic Games, as the developer, announced that they planned to create and release a videogame called Six Days in Fallujah, a great deal of outrage was expressed, coming both from anti war coalitions and from people who served with the United States Army in Iraq.Their main complaint... |
13 April 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Barely has a day passed since Konami has partnered up with Atomic Games in order to create and release a video-game called Six Days in Fallujah, and the outraged reactions are starting to pour in. The odd thing is that people coming from both military backgrounds and anti war groups are saying that creating a title t... |
9 April 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Sports-based games are among the most popular titles currently on the videogaming market, as they offer great opportunities for players to lead their favorite athletes or teams to victory, glory and success. We are flooded with games based on a variety of sports, from American football to baseball or basketball, but ... |
9 April 2009
03:04 GMT |
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Atomic Games, as the developer, and Konami, as the publisher, are saying that they are planning to create and release Six Days in Fallujah, a videogame that will tackle one of the most known episodes of the current war in Iraq. The title is set to arrive on the PC, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 consoles.The game... |
8 April 2009
03:00 GMT |
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The original Silent Hill was quite an innovative title, basically establishing the genre of survival horror videogames. It played on the emotions of the gamers and those of the main characters while offering a game that was scary, tough and exhilarating to complete.Now, it seems that Konami is set to revive the title... |
2 April 2009
18:41 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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Konami has made good on its promise to release Metal Gear Solid Touch for iPhone and iPod touch, a stripped down version of the PlayStation 3 title, MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots. Gameplay is handled via a multi-touch interface, with the player being able to slide a finger for aiming, use gestures for zooming in and ou... |
24 March 2009
04:36 GMT |
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Konami is really eager to keep interest in the Metal Gear Solid franchise going by announcing new additions to Metal Gear Online, the multiplayer experience based on the game starring Solid Snake.Players who will be getting the SCENE expansion are set to receive new special characters, maps, skills, gear and customiz... |
19 March 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Konami is announcing that it plans to re-release some of the videogames that it has put out for the PlayStation Portable from Sony. The concept Konami is pioneering is to offer two different games in one package for the low price of just 19.99 dollars. The publisher aims to offer this type of package for quite some t... |
4 March 2009
02:27 GMT |
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Konami is saying that its much loved football simulator, Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, is set to receive a new free download pack at the end of February. The new content will arrive on the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the PC and will aim to make the game more interesting by bringing the player database up to date wit... |
10 February 2009
04:39 GMT |
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The Metal Gear Solid franchise is one of the most popular Japanese-made series of all times. Being the brainchild of famous game designer Hideo Kojima, all of the titles found within it have pioneered the stealth games and introduced a level of storytelling never seen before. In recent years, besides the eagerly anti... |
9 February 2009
02:50 GMT |
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Konami says it will release, sometime today, a free new update for Metal Gear Online set to introduce players to a new game mode, called Bomb Mission. The game has been constantly receiving more content since it's initial release and the new mission type will surely be interesting to current players, while some ... |
28 January 2009
02:36 GMT |
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New International Track and Field, or New International Hyper Sports DS, as it is known in Japan, is a video game developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS handheld console by Sumo Digital and published by the big Japanese company Konami, the owners of the acclaimed Metal Gear Solid franchise among others. It was rel... |
23 January 2009
06:46 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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