When you sit down to play a Metal Gear Solid game, I can’t promise you a coherent story or streamlined gameplay. I can, however, promise you tons of Easter eggs as a reward for deep exploration. Case in point: The radio broadcast featured in the video above. If you don’t own a PlayStation 4, it might not be familiar to you. It’s the radio broadcast that plays on the radio in P.T., the...
The Metal Gear series is a complicated, circular mess of plotlines filled with surprises, twists, and betrayals. It's a mess we love, but it's still a mess. Even if you've been paying attention, you may have missed some things. If you've been away from the series for a while, or are maybe approaching it for the first time, some catch-up isn't a bad idea.
I’m hardly in any position to point the finger and laugh about typos, but I never pass up the opportunity to point them out when they are permanently stuck on the cover of something official. Those who pre-ordered the Metal Gear Solid V Special Edition PlayStation 4 will forever be graced by a typo staring them in the face from their entertainment setup. Plus, they get a nice little...
I’ve adjusted to life on the digital gaming scene. I might still cough up money for a physical game that I really want, like a Square Enix JRPG or something that dances along my tastes, but these are strictly restricted to console games. I haven’t bought a physical PC game since World of Warcraft back when it first launched, and if Konami’s latest move is a hint of the future, I never...
It’s always nice to see that some of the old guard can still run with the best of them. When it comes to video game artists, we have Yoshitaka Amano drawing for Final Fantasy and Akira Toriyama still doing his thing for Dragon Quest. Maybe slightly lesser known than those two is Yoji Shinkawa, the man who has been drawing for Metal Gear Solid since the very first game. Granted, it’s...
Have you read the news? Konami is getting out of the console business and moving onto mobile games. Hideo Kojima and most of its influential game designers have moved on, not a single major console hit remains on its docket after The Phantom Pain launches in September, and profits are up even after all these lifeblood cuts. Everywhere you read, this is the feeling you get, and it seems...
We’re in bizarro gaming world, where an upcoming game is up for pre-load on consoles but not on PC. That game is, of course, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, because it seems to have a flair for the dramatic like no other. Metal Gear Solid V will be ready to download on September 1 when the game goes live on Steam, but will not be available to download before. It will, however, be...
Nobody likes the situation between Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and publisher Konami. Not the fans, not the executives, not Kojima or Konami, and not the press. Well, maybe the press likes it for easy stories, but not on a personal level. Throw EA COO Peter Moore onto the pile of people living in mourning over the apparent break-up of the two gaming superpowers. In an...
Cancelling Silent Hills, boasting "Erotic Violence" in Castlevania, and throwing the future of Metal Gear to the wind are the least of Konami's problems. It now has to deal with whistle blowers from within its own company spilling the beans on awful and possibly illegal working conditions. Recent accusations painting Konami as a place that is not so much fun to work have flared up and...
Silent Hill, as a series, has always been about turning our worst nightmares on us. Tales of loss, abuse, parenthood, and infidelity make up the bulk of the series. We'll never know what was in store for Silent Hills, but it turns out the worst nightmare was yet ahead of us. Silent Hill's mangled corpse began twitching again this week when Konami announced that Silent Hill would be...