Hideo Kojima will receive the Game Developers Choice Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award in a ceremony to take place March 25 at the 2009 Games Developers Conference in San Francisco. Founder of the "Metal Gear" series and current Corporate Officer, Executive Producer and Director of Kojima Productions, Kojima is considered one of the world's most influential game [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 5, 2009
Hideo Kojima hasn’t exactly hid his recent forays across seas to visit Western development studios. Speaking to Famitsu, it seems his travels have convinced him that Kojima Productions needs to “start from zero” this year to better compete on a global market. "I've thought a lot about how Western games have been winning, looking it from [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Hello there, starved off Metal Gear Solid fans. Well, you're only starved if you're not owners of Sony's little big machine, as MGS4 seemed to satisfy most of those fans. Anyway, I'm sure that when the new Konami-powered teaser website came up, proclaiming that "A NEXT METAL GEAR IS..." many of you were hoping it [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 13, 2008
People who played through Metal Gear Solid 4 may have enjoyed the game, but if you’re like me you noticed one thing: the Metal Gear theme was oddly absent from the finale. Many of us suspected that it was due to Kojima Productions being accused of plagiarism, but there was never an official explanation from [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
For years, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has been the master of screwing with gamer's heads. Today, it seems that he couldn't resist doing so once more. By crafting a teaser that cleverly integrates elements of several popular game systems (the green color of Xbox and the lower-case 'I' used in DSi and iPhone) as [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 16, 2008
Tuesday, the Kabushiki business journal owned by Japanese investment consulting firm Morningstar made waves in the gaming community, with news that Konami was considering bringing the PS3-exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4 to Xbox 360. Though Konami has historically denied the Xbox 360 rumor, this time things were different: the Kabushiki report had a direct quote [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
With less than a month before Metal Gear Solid 4's June 12th release, Konami is gearing up for launch, but not by dropping further hints as to the game's story, characters or plot twists. Today, it's all about the periphery -- including the overpriced MGS4 Limited Edition bundle, an MGS4 sequel (!) and the original [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Shortly after another Japanese luminary spoke of the , Hideo Kojima, during a press conference announcing [via Kotaku] the completion of development of Metal Gear Solid, discussed the state of the game industry and how the Japanese domination of the industry is evaporating.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Between the Metal Gear Solid 4 wrap party and Microsoft's Spring Showcase, there's plenty of good video to show off this week. Come partake in the cream of the crop.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 6, 2008
We don't normally show off trailers, though that's something we're planning to change in the weeks to come. But after witnessing the jaw-droppingly gorgeous first footage of Mirror's Edge, and confronted with official Konami confirmation of Metal Gear Solid 4's recent video bombshells, we just couldn't bear to wait another minute before sharing them with [...]
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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