Metal Gear Solid V
Geoff Keighley: Konami bans Metal Gear Solid V’s Hideo Kojima from game awards
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Anime News Network
Dec 4, 2015
- Japan
- (awards • ban • Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear Solid V • PlayStation Awards • video games)
Where have we heard Metal Gear Solid V’s iDroid voice before? When we last rode the Shinkansen!
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Evie Nyan
Sep 9, 2015
The release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has been met with as much excitement and frenzy as you might expect from the latest instalment of a legendary video game franchise. But while most players are preoccupied with riding D. Horse around, frolicking in cardboard boxes and puzzling over the intricate story, it’s a certain voiceover that’s had us scratching our heads. Where on earth have we heard iDroid‘s soothing tones before? Oh, that’s right – on the Shinkansen!
Voice actor and vocalist Donna Burke is a veteran of the video game industry, lending her vocal cords to multiple games including MGSV and Silent Hill, and she ALSO provided the English-language spoken announcement that’s broadcast on the bullet train to help foreign visitors navigate their way around Japan!
- Australia, Global, Internet, Japan
- (donna burke • iDroid • Konami • Metal Gear Solid V • shinkansen • Silent Hill • video games • voice actor)
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.
- Global, Japan
- (Easter egg • Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear Solid V • P.T. • Silent Hills • video • video games)
Little Big Planet 3 offers Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain costumes
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Anime News Network
Sep 3, 2015
The official U.S. PlayStation blog revealed on Tuesday that Sony‘s Little Big Planet 3 game is offering a Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain-themed costume pack for the game’s characters. Buyers who purchase the costumes as a complete set will also receive a Box Costume for the character Toggle. The costumes can also be purchased separately.
Metal Gear cardboard box wedding ad full of crazy, bittersweet belly laughs, just like the games
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Casey Baseel
Aug 29, 2015
For months, there have been rumblings of discord between video game publisher Konami and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain director Hideo Kojima. First Kojima’s name, one of the most respected in the industry, was scrubbed from the game’s packaging, and now the popular opinion seems to be that once The Phantom Pain is a completely done deal, Kojima will pack up and leave the company where he’s worked for decades, meaning someone else would be tasked with carrying on the legacy of Metal Gear, a franchise so ground-breaking and successful it literally changed the industry.
But none of this drama seems to have adversely affected The Phantom Pain’s development, as advance reviews of the title have been glowing. And perhaps even more baffling is that even as this might be the end of an era, the series has in no way lost its sense of humor, as seen in this bizarre yet emotional Metal Gear Solid V TV commercial starring an about-to-be-wed bride and groom, dressed in their finest Metal Gear-style cardboard boxes.
- Japan
- (ads • crazy • funny • Hideo Kojima • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid V • video gaems • weird)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s GamesCom trailer previews open world
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Anime News Network
Aug 5, 2015
Hideo Kojima confirms Metal Gear Solid V’s Quiet figure will have soft breasts you can play with
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Casey Baseel
May 12, 2015
Recently, anime and video game fans have been sharing pictures online of the shoddily produced figurines that merchandisers have been foisting on them. This isn’t something that happens exclusively with low-profile franchises, either, as mega-hit Attack on Titan dropped the second of two plastic duds just last month.
Given the falling out between Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and long-time employer Konami, you might think the famed game designer is taking a similarly apathetic attitude towards the merchandise for his upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Kojima is a pro, though, and not about to let his acrimonious situation with the game’s publisher discourage him from making sure the title and all its related products are of the utmost quality.
That’s right, Metal Gear fans, you can breathe easy, because it’s been confirmed that the figure of the game’s female sniper has soft, squishable breasts.
- Japan
- (figures • Hideo Kojima • Metal Gear Solid • Metal Gear Solid V • toys • video games • weird)
Special edition Metal Gear Solid V PS4 is kind of uninspired, will probably sell by the bucketload
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Philip Kendall
Feb 19, 2014
Never shy of releasing a special edition product or two, Japan’s Konami Corporation has announced a limited “Fox Edition” Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes-themed PlayStation 4 console just for Japanese gamers ahead of the game’s release on March 20.
We’re sure the console will appeal to some people’s tastes and fans will no doubt want to add it to their collection of MGS merch, but quite honestly we’re not entirely bowled over by the design Konami went with.
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