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Considering the huge hit the Prince of Persia movie is expected to be, it's no wonder more and more producers are exploring other game-related movie possibilities. Rise of the Lich King, the World of Warcraft movie is another one that is expected to perform great, but, until it's done, it looks like Residen... |
16 November 2009
08:42 GMT |
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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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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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A lot of eyes have been cast upon Metal Gear Solid these past couple of years, but this is not the only popular franchise Kojima Productions has. During August's GamesCom the official European PlayStation blog listed an entry with Hideo Kojima regarding future plans. Among the other things mentioned, the game de... |
16 October 2009
04:45 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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Konami and Kojima Productions are announcing that they will be offering a playable demo of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show. The event is set to take place between September 24 and 27 at the Makuhari Messe.During the last two days of the TGS, the public will have access to the show floor... |
15 September 2009
06:03 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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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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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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Exclusivities have always been primary ammo for companies engaged in the console war. While Nintendo has its hugely successful Mario or Zelda franchises, Microsoft flaunted its Gears of War or Halo shooters and Sony struggled to get its Resistance, LittleBigPlanet or Killzone 2 into the media spotlight.But one of the... |
26 June 2009
13:31 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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The Xbox 360 is a popular platform, but it hasn't had a lot of hugely successful franchises exclusively for it like Sony had over the years. Although Halo or Gears of War have generated some big sales, none of them has experienced the following of Konami's Metal Gear Solid saga. The last iteration, MGS 4: ... |
11 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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This week, the E3 blow out happened. Almost all of our news articles came out the Los Angeles Convention Centers, as the biggest companies in videogaming showed off the titles and devices that would shape our experiences in the coming year. Here are the biggest pieces of news of the last few days.Monday was all about... |
6 June 2009
08:11 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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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 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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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 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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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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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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LittleBigPlanet is probably one of the most innovative games that have appeared this holiday season. It provided a unique twist to the usual puzzle platformer genre, enabling players to create their own levels via the unique tools that were made available by its developer, Media Molecule. Also, as Sony, its publishe... |
23 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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There have been quite a few high-quality, triple-A titles that have appeared this holiday season, which led a lot of industry analysts to state that 2008 has been a great year for games. We've seen quality shooters like Resistance 2 or Gears of War 2, but also RPGs like Fallout 3 or Fable II, though a very surpr... |
18 December 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Recently, a new official Metal Gear website by Konami sparked rumors of a new installment in the popular tactical / stealth shooter, Metal Gear Solid. Konami has now confirmed that the popular title is hitting the iPhone and the iPod touch. When it was first spotted, the new MGS site displayed the Konami logo and an... |
17 December 2008
05:00 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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Japanese developers aren't what they used to be, at least that's what Sony Computer Entertainment executive Shuhei Yoshida thinks. In a recent interview with VideoGaming 247 he had the following to say regarding the current state of Japanese game development. "What’s happened since the days of PS... |
25 September 2008
03:56 GMT |
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I am sure that you're a fan of the Metal Gear Solid franchise and, even more, you love the multiplayer thrills offered by Metal Gear Online. If so and if you consider yourself one of the best players ever, you should be really pleased to find out that Konami is planning to start a World Championship competition ... |
17 July 2008
12:06 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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April 17 is the moment when the online beta phase for the highly anticipated Metal Gear Online launches. And there's a bit of panic going through European fans of Metal Gear because it seems that some, if not all, IP addresses from Europe are denied access to the beta site. Japanese based IP addresses do not see... |
11 April 2008
18:06 GMT |
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The synergy between movies and games continues to grow. We see more announcements about movies based on games than ever and great games based intellectual property, like Gears of War or Metal Gear Solid, is becoming more sought after as sales and media exposure increase. But a careful observer can also spot another t... |
1 April 2008
03:51 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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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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It's been a while since everybody started to complain because the 80GB PlayStation 3 was set to be discontinued, basically meaning that Sony was killing any backwards compatibility with the PS2 games. Then, we heard some rumors that we might get something back via special software but, as usual, there were no re... |
28 February 2008
03:09 GMT |
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One of most awaited next-gen titles has got to be Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, surfacing on the PS3 console this year. But what about the past? Most of the folks who played the previous installments will surely enjoy looking back and having yet another taste of the best game in the Metal Gear series: Me... |
18 January 2008
08:39 GMT |
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Everybody loves lists, especially when they're about great games to come. When the list has more than 90 titles, things start to get even better. Add to that the fact that it is all about PlayStation 3 exclusives, and you have your bonus. What could you want more? Oh, to actually read the list? Ok, go ahead!- A... |
27 December 2007
03:33 GMT |
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Welcome to "Rumorville" again, as we cruise in the gaming universe, smelling the air for some fresh Final Fantasy: Crisis Core news (it's launched today) and also some interesting piece of info related to the Metal Gear Solid movie. I, for one, didn't even know that such a movie was coming, but I'm gl... |
13 September 2007
02:56 GMT |
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Just as Sony have announced their dropping the price on the 60GB and 80GB PS3 by $100, new strategies were in order, as a mere drop in price can't assure success in the long run. The PS3 desperately needs some good next-gen titles and apparently, no developer/publisher is keen on aiding the electronics giant. Fo... |
11 July 2007
05:52 GMT |
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Metal Gear Solid is a stealth-based game directed by Hideo Kojima. The game was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and first published by Konami in 1998 for the PlayStation video game console. It was well-received publicly and critically, shipping more than six million copies. It is the fourth title to... |
18 May 2007
08:27 GMT |
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Metal Gear Ac!d 2 sees Snake taken captive by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. His captor coaxes Snake into infiltrating a top secret research facility, but that’s in fact a clever trap devised by the US Military and Venus, a female secret agent in charge of research and overseeing the creation of a third generatio... |
14 March 2007
03:39 GMT |
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Remember when Konami said "off with online Metal Gear Solid's head?" Well, it is partially true because it only happened with North American servers. Konami says that Europe can still enjoy it to the fullest. "Following the announcement that the US servers for the online elements of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsisten... |
12 March 2007
08:10 GMT |
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