Living in constant fear, paranoid of unceasing surveillance, forced remedial work, and a general lack of free will. If you thought I was just describing George Orwell's 1984, you'd be mistaken. Instead, I am describing what Nikkei claims to be life working at Konami in Japan in a blistering report on the "game developer's" working conditions. Can we even call Konami a "game developer"...
Renowned video game voice actor Troy Baker, of The Last of Us and pretty much every video game made in the last few years, has spoken out in support of his latest co-star in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Kiefer Sutherland. Last year, the Metal Gear Solid community had a freak out when Konami announced that longtime voice actor David Hayter had been replaced by Kiefer Sutherland...
Japan has always had a weird relationship with open world games. Despite many attempts, Japanese developers don’t seem to be able to replicate the type of experience companies like Bethesda and Rockstar have all but perfected. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has been advertised as an open world game, but if you’re thinking of The Witcher 3...
It's just pure science. Metal Gear Solid shows up at E3, and it's the most talked about game at the show. Something about Hideo Kojima's espionage action franchise just makes it show really well in public. This hidden element is more than just the franchise's complex storytelling or deep gameplay. Ever since the days of the PlayStation, Metal Gear Solid has been expected to push the...
Evidence is piling up about a darker side of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain that we have yet to see. And we don’t mean torture, warfare, or livestock theft via parachute either, but rather… microtransactions! Dun dun dun! Although it might not surprise many, considering Konami’s insistence on keeping up with mobile trends, several retailers have reported that the game will be...
Konami announced this week that the special edition red and gold PlayStation 4 that will release alongside Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in Japan and Hong Kong will be making it to European, Australian and New Zealand markets as well. Alongside this announcement, though, came a stack of new screenshots to ogle over until we get to play the game this fall. We get a peek at a...
I thought I was over these Teen React videos, but this one is a little too sweet and personal to look away from. Contra is described in the video as one of the hardest video games of all time. Really? Well, with the way these teenagers play it, it certainly looks like it. These kids can’t do anything right. They can’t shoot flying weapon capsules, they can’t cross the exploding bridge...
Listen up, everybody! E3 is coming back to us, and that means a healthy offering of new screenshots that we can use in our articles. With that in mind, let’s take the old ones out for a spin, whack them with a feather duster for all they’re worth, and let them go out with a bang before we retire them into the dark, bleak, and technically non-existent depths of our server space. This...
The video game industry is in such a cutthroat, volatile state these days that even a fan-favorite Hollywood director and universally likable guy like Guillermo del Toro can't find success. Two major video games he has attempted to helm have been sent to the scrapper for reasons beyond his control, and it doesn't look like he is eager to get back to trying again. Del Toro explains his...
“We will pursue mobile games aggressively,” says Konami’s new CEO. We’ve been speculating for weeks that Konami had lost interest in the console gaming space, and CEO Hideki Hayakawa confirmed it in an interview this week with Nikkei Trendy Net, which has been translated by NeoGAF user HGH. “Our main platform will be mobiles. Following the pay-as-you-play model of games like Power Pro...