11 things to know before playing the English-friendly real-life version of the hit video game.
Hideo Kojima
Conan and his team packed in as much of Tokyo as possible during the final days of their Japanese trip.
Players can use cardboard boxes, Snake’s patented hold-up move to outwit armed human guards.
Game’s first preview has fans scratching their heads and rolling their eyes as the innovative series seemingly resorts to a zombie apocalypse scenario.
Depending on how cynical a gamer you are, this is either the last thing you expected, or the first.
Famed Metal Gear director calls Japanese creators “strange” for spending so much time and money on their finales.
Now you and the director of such video game hits as Metal Gear can snuggle all through the night.
Newly formed Kojima Productions is looking to hire a few good video game developers, plus find customers for its online store.
He kept us waiting, but the internationally renowned video game director is finally ready to start work on his next project.
Sniper Wolf figure hits the bullseye where a love of boobs, video games, and dogs overlap.
Video game developer and publisher Konami denied an earlier report by The New Yorker that Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima had left Konami. Konami stated that “Kojima is currently taking an extended vacation, and is currently still registered as an employee.”
With Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain now available, gamers are hunkering down to complete Hideo Kojima’s final Metal Gear outing, and the last couple of days have seen a flurry of uploads to YouTube and gaming sites from players wanting to show off their discoveries in the huge open world.
One such discovery has people lamenting the cancellation of Silent Hills, the horror game that was at one time to be Kojima’s next project, all over again. Despite Konami’s attempts to erase its existence by removing it from the Playstation Store, P.T., the playable teaser for the cancelled game, can’t be wiped from gamers’ minds that easily, and apparently not from the company’s latest hit, either.
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