By Ron Duwell |
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was a big surprise back in 2010. Western reboots of Japanese series have not always gone over well with the core fans of the franchises, but developer Mercury Steam nailed the paper thin margin of pleasing newcomers and oldtimers alike. The result wasn’t…
By Ron Duwell |
After posting big financial losses in 2012, Konami is looking to seriously turn around its recent misfortunes with a strong showing from all of its biggest franchises. Naturally, this means Konami is going to be bringing out Hideo Kojima on stage to tease us with…
By Ron Duwell |
Konami is the latest major Japanese publisher to post a financial loss. The company joins rivals Capcom and Square Enix in a tough year for Japanese video games. Comparing itself to last year, Konami dropped 15 percent in net revenues and 42.8 percent in net…
By Ron Duwell |
It almost slipped past me, but we are smack dab in the middle of a good old fashioned genre rumble. Two classic companies have positioned their winter hack n’ slash games all primed up to compete with one another, and only time will tell who…
By Ron Duwell |
Konami held a press conference for their upcoming hack ‘n slash addition to the popular Metal Gear series. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is just out of reach and ready to burn holes in a few peoples’ pockets. I’ve warmed up considerably towards it since its…
By Ron Duwell |
Most Metal Gear games often set the video game scene on fire. Speculation on story, revolutionary gameplay ideas, boundary pushing graphics. Each game in the series sets itself as a milestone in video game design and does so with enough skill to laugh in the…
By Ron Duwell |
Hideo Kojima’s lasting legacy to video games will always be Metal Gear, but don’t let that stop you from checking out the rest of his extensive library. Now is a better time than ever to do a little diving, because both games from his popular…
By Ron Duwell |
Let me take a second to talk about my little corner of gaming heaven. Konami isn’t especially known for their RPGs; but, at one brief moment in their history, they found the creative genius to rival even Final Fantasy on the PlayStation. No exaggeration there,…
By Ron Duwell |
Hideo Kojima has always had a flare for exciting cinematics in video games, but it’s always been his writing that has turned his naysayers off. Not that it’s bad or anything, but there’s just simply too much to chew over the course of a single…
By Ron Duwell |
Hideo Kojima will be delivering a one-two punch of Collector Editions of his two biggest upcoming games, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Zone of the Enders HD Collection. Most big games nowadays come with a special premium package made for the most serious fans out…
By Ron Duwell |
Big Boss will be doing much more than killing from the shadows in his next mission, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Hideo Kojima has revealed that the first open world game in the series will also have the legendary super soldier managing his own base of…
By Ron Duwell |
Capcom and Konami want to wish me a super special Happy Birthday this year! Both of their upcoming HD ports will be released on October 30th, and both are games I’m planning on getting. Thanks a lot, you guys! From the Capcom side of things,…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes may not have a release date yet, but series creator Hideo Kojima is already feeding fans tidbits to keep them interested. Kojima had a couple to give to Eurogamer this week. While Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is still a…
By Ron Duwell |
Here we go again! Another Metal Gear Solid reveal trailer is going to throw us into another painfully long development cycle, and we’re going to eat up every second of it. It seems no matter how old the series or its protagonists get, or how…
By Ron Duwell |
In case you didn’t notice, there was a lot of Metal Gear news on the Internet today. Konami threw an all day birthday bash in the streets of Roppongi to celebrate the iconic series’ 25th anniversary, and all the big stars of Japanese gaming attended…
By Ron Duwell |
Metal Gear Solid 5 development is underway, but the release is “a long way off” if a motion-capture actor is to be believed. Frequent Konami motion actor Eric Bossic just wrapped a recent motion cap session with Kojima Productions and confirmed in an interview with…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Hideo Kojima, the man behind Metal Gear, contemplated on Twitter yesterday the possibilities of a Silent Hill game running on the Fox Engine he’s debuting at the end of August.…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Konami announced yesterday at Gamescom that Metal Gear Rising will be released in February, 2013. Japan, Europe and Asia will see the game on February 21 while America will get the game two days earlier on February 19. Who said no one would date a…
By Ron Duwell |
Konami is looking to set things right after a wave of negative press surrounded its decision to cancel the Silent Hill HD Collection Xbox 360 update patch. Without the patch, the game remains a junky mess filled with frame rate issues and audio that isn’t…
By Ron Duwell |
If you still haven’t been convinced not to buy the Silent Hill HD Collection, do yourself a favor and at least pick up the PlayStation 3 version. Konami has addressed the multitudes of problems that plagued the initial release, but only the PlayStation 3 version…
By Ron Duwell |
MercurySteam’s Dave Cox, the producer of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, suggested that his studio wants to pass on the series once they finish up the current trilogy. “Our intention is to tell our story and then move on to other things. We have a very interesting…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Metal Gear has been going strong for 25 years now, and Kojima Productions is celebrating the anniversary. A Famitsu cover by Yoji Shinkawa, a series of stylish shirts, anniversary events and more mark the occasion. The biggest news, though, came out of an interview with…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Konami continues to confuse us with more Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance screenshots. Watch as Metal Gear emo-kid Raiden leaps off missles, performs 3-point-landings and… watches crates fall. In one of the shots, it even looks like an enemy is clipping through the ubiquitous Metal Gear…
By Eric Frederiksen |
As the current console generation goes on longer than any before it, some of our favorite franchises are starting to feel a bit tired. Others were tired long ago. Both need a rest. What’s worse is that many of these franchises are some of my…
