The streaming rights war continues, and Disney+ appears to have won exclusivity on Hideo Kojima’s highly anticipated documentary. Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this summer, will be released worldwide in spring 2024. The film follows the ex-Konami director as he starts a new company after his public departure from Metal Gear Solid. After signing ...
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Why Are Sony and Microsoft Buying So Many Game Developers?
One of the biggest announces that Microsoft made at E3 2018 wasn’t a game or a new console. What was really exciting was when the company confirmed that it had purchased four new game developers. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, racing game developer Playground Games, State of Decay developer Undead Labs, and We Happy Few developer Compulsion Games are now owned ...
Read More »Kojima to Finally Receive Industry Icon Award
Konami is a company that has truly taken over the spotlight in recent years, and not exactly for good reasons. It’s been doing quite a bit to alienate its long term fanbase. Whether it’s the cancelation of Silent Hills or transforming of its beloved franchises in gambling machines, fans are not happy. They’ve been doing a fair bit to drive ...
Read More »Is MGS 5: The Phantom Pain the last game Konami will release?
From the late eighties and throughout the nineties and noughties, there was always one constant in the console gaming world, Konami. They regularly released games and were ever present in the gaming market. The Metal Gear Solid series was a massive success for them and for an extended period they monopolized the soccer video game scene with the International Superstar Soccer (ISS) ...
Read More »PT Is Being Sold On eBay
A number of listings have surfaced on eBay advertising Playstation 4 consoles with the acclaimed “PT” pre-installed on them. The “playable teaser” was removed from the Playstation Store on Wednesday following Konami’s fall-out with Hideo Kojima, and the eventual cancellation of Silent Hills. Not all hope is lost for those yet to experience the terror inflicted by PT however, as ...
Read More »Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Gets September Release Date
The announcement from Konami and Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was supposed to come out tomorrow, but a leaked video from IGN has confirmed a release date for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain ahead of schedule. The game will be released in six months time, specifically hitting systems on September 1 of this year. This isn’t a ...
Read More »Metal Gear Rising 2 a possibility?
The world of gaming has shifted its focus on Asia the past few days with the Intel Extreme Masters Taipei events, but people have new grounds for speculation after the Taipei Game Show 2015 live stream. During the PlayStation 4 sizzle reel at the Sony booth that showcased trailers for The Witcher: Wild Hunt, NBA2k15, Little Big Planet, Metal Gear ...
Read More »New Metal Gear Solid 5 Images
Some new Metal Gear Solid 5 images have been shared by Hideo Kojima’s twitter. Kojima has served as game director and major overseer of the Metal Gear Solid franchise since it’s inception in 1987. On Christmas Day in Japan Kojima hosted a video stream, which many expected to include information on Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain. Unfortunately the ...
Read More »Metal Gear Online Confirmed for The Game Awards 2014
Metal Gear Online originally released with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots on the PlayStation 3 back in 2008. Now it seems that we will be able to experience the world of Metal Gear Online once again. Over Twitter today, it was confirmed that Hideo Kojima would be premiering Metal Gear Online at The Game Awards 2014. Game ...
Read More »MGS V: Ground Zeroes’ PC version might come out in December
According to a couple of Russian gaming websites (Shazoo and Gamemag), the upcoming PC version of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes might get a December 18th release date. According to said Russian sources, the announcement was made by the series’ creator himself, Hideo Kojima, at the Russian gaming exposition Igromir 2014. MGS V: Ground Zeroes is part of a sub-series ...
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