Second instalment includes a boss fight and a stop at Matsuya to fuel up on gyudon beef bowls.
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Japanese YouTuber fights on the streets of Shibuya in new real-life video game episode【Video】
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Oona McGee
Aug 14, 2020 - Tweet
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Hideo Kojima’s company closes office after employee confirmed infected with coronavirus
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Casey Baseel
Mar 31, 2020
Video game studio is told it doesn’t have to close, but decides to make worker safety its priority.
Hideo Kojima thinks there’s a better way to spend your coronavirus free time than playing games
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Casey Baseel
Mar 18, 2020
Director of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding recommends putting down the analog sticks in order to do something else as you hunker down at home.
Shinkansen announcer shares moment her mother hears her voice on bullet train for the first time
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SoraNews24
Nov 1, 2019
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Metal Gear Solid is now real with awesome “real infiltration game” opening in Tokyo【Video】
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Casey Baseel
Sep 3, 2018
Players can use cardboard boxes, Snake’s patented hold-up move to outwit armed human guards.
- Japan
- (awesome • cool • escape games • Hideo Kojima • Metal Gear Solid • real escape games • shinjuku • video • video games)
Metal Gear Solid’s composer wants you to chill
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Viewster
May 29, 2017
Norihiko Hibino wants you to take a moment for yourself. Just relax. Let your worries fade. Get lost in his smooth saxophone sounds.
- Japan
- (anime • Konami • Metal Gear Solid • music • Norihiko Hibino • saxophone • video games • Viewster)
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- (anime • Hideo Kojima • Metal Gear Solid • New Game! • video games)
Hideo Kojima officially leaves Konami, opens own studio, announces new PlayStation 4 game 【Video】
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Casey Baseel
Dec 16, 2015
He kept us waiting, but the internationally renowned video game director is finally ready to start work on his next project.
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- (Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid • playstation • Silent Hills • video • video games)
New female Metal Gear figure features a heaping helping of suggestiveness…and a doggy! 【Photos】
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Casey Baseel
Nov 20, 2015
Sniper Wolf figure hits the bullseye where a love of boobs, video games, and dogs overlap.
- Japan
- (figures • Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid • toys • video games)
The Phantom Limb Project: Gamer to get prosthetic limb inspired by Metal Gear Solid V
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Preston Phro
Nov 11, 2015
A collaboration between video game giant Konami and prostheses expert Sophie De Oliviera Barata aims to give an amputee gamer a new arm inspired by Metal Gear Solid.
It has been announced that Noriyoshi Ohrai—the Japanese illustrator best known for producing remarkable poster art for Metal Gear Solid as well as for films including the Godzilla series and Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back—passed away from pneumonia yesterday morning at the age of 79.
With a career spanning over half a century and an impressive portfolio of artworks for novels, games and well-known international movie releases, fans around the world are mourning the loss of a great talent and taking a look back at his extraordinary body of work.
- Japan
- (art • games • Godzilla • Konami • Metal Gear Solid • movies • poster art • Star Wars)
That amazing Raiden cosplayer from Tokyo Game Show is back with a full video!【Video】
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Preston Phro
Oct 27, 2015
You probably remember that incredible Raiden cosplay from this year’s Tokyo Game Show—the one with the moving mask that wowed pretty much everyone on Internet. We were always a bit bummed there wasn’t more to all the videos and photos, but now Masazi, the cosplayer behind the amazing outfit, has released a minute-long video showing off her suit in action!
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.”
- Japan
- (denial • Hideo Kojima • Konami • leaving Konami • Metal Gear Solid • video games)
We’re pretty sure this woman won Tokyo Game Show cosplay with amazing Raiden headgear
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Preston Phro
Sep 23, 2015
Sadly, Tokyo Game Show 2015 is now over, but the buzz created by the event is still tingling in our bellies and in our hearts! Kind of like indigestion, but awesome. We saw and tried a lot of cool stuff, but we couldn’t catch it all, unfortunately. Thankfully, the Internet somehow managed to do just that, including one of the most amazing cosplays we’ve ever seen, hands down.
We’re not sure if anyone can really “win” cosplaying, since everyone wins when you’re having fun, but if there is a champion among all of TGS 2015’s cosplayers, we think it might be this woman’s take on Metal Gear Solid’s Raiden.
By now, the video gaming community is all but painfully aware of the sudden divorce between game director Hideo Kojima and game developer Konami. Solid Snake himself has even tweeted the fact that studio Kojima Productions has been disbanded, the studio logo having been removed from advertisement posters for the upcoming title, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
- Japan
- (Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear Solid • split • video games)
The male cosplayers (and their occasionally faceless characters) of Summer Wonder Festival
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Casey Baseel
Jul 29, 2015
Last weekend, we headed out to Chiba Prefecture to attend Wonder Festival, the world’s largest model and garage kit-building convention. Along with all sorts of inanimate representations of animated characters, we also checked out all of the impressive cosplayers who’d gathered from all over Japan for the event.
We already shared our photos of the female costumers, but we remembered to save some room on our memory card for the guys as well, and so we proudly present the male cosplayers of this year’s Summer Wonder Festival.
“Solid Sato” sneaks into Starbucks under cover of cardboard box, Metal Gear-style 【VIDEO】
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Evie Nyan
May 21, 2015
Our resident oddball writer Mr. Sato loves his coffee, so much so that he finds it impossible to pass by a Starbucks without stopping in for a quick coffee break. The only problem is that he tends to favour “girly” drinks like frappuccinos, and lives in fear of being spotted by friends and acquaintances enjoying one.
The solution? Sneak into Starbucks underneath a cardboard box, Solid Snake-style, and see if the baristas will serve coffee to a cardboard box. Check out our video to see how he did!
- Japan
- (cardboard box • coffee • funny • Metal Gear Solid • Mr. Sato • Starbucks • video games • weird)
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)
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