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News Kojima's Classic Policenauts Now Totally Playable In English Thanks To A Fan-Made Patch
Hey Kojima fans
Have you been waiting to play Policenauts in English since, like, 1996? No problem, the Kojima fan community have got your back. They've totally translated the game. The patch to play in English requires an original Japanese copy of the game and a Playstation that can play CD-Rs. You'll need to rip the game files, apply the patch and...
News Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Will Take "Hundreds Of Hours" To Complete
Hideo Kojima has stated that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be a full sequel, so full of content it will take "hundreds of hours to complete"
"The main team from MGS4 is participating in the development of this title and I am involved in all aspects of the game, ranging from design, direction and scenario writing," Kojima writes in...
News If You Were Baffled By Metal Gear Solid's Timeline, Well, So Is Hideo Kojima
It's often said that if a writer is not sure of his fiction, how can those reading it know better? This statement rings true with Metal Gear Solid
Despite our deep love for the franchise (and the surprisingly helpful Metal Gear Solid Database) we still find the intricacies of the saga baffling. That's ok though, because Kojima himself doesn't know...
News GamesCom 09: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Trailer Is An Absolute Epic
Prepare yourself for 9 minutes of Snake-to-the-power-of-four action
This trailer is up there with Kojima's best. Get some pop-corn. Put it in the microwave. Turn the microwave on for a bit. Cover it in salt. Add some butter while it's still warm. Sit back. And press play. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker deserves that kind of attention.
News Trophies Might Be Heading To Metal Gear Solid 4 Afterall
Hear this Metal Gear Solid fans: Kojima Productions know you want trophies
As part of the latest Kojima Productions podcast, the company talk a little bit about the word on every MGS-avid's lips; trophies."I just wanna tell everybody out there right now that your voices are being heard and that we're not ignoring you. We hear everything that...
News Kojima Productions Are Attempting "PS3 Quality" With Peace Walker
Hideo Kojima is treating the PSP's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker as Metal Gear Solid 5
Despite the drop in hardware possibilities Kojima reckons the team working on it are "aiming for PS3 quality because they were creating MGS4 on the PS3 not too long ago". Kojima did not comment on how Peace Walker's multiplayer would work but he has...
News Kojima Productions Are In A Support Role For Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow
In an interview with Famitsu Weekly, video game God Hideo Kojima has further reiterated his role on the upcoming Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow
"This has become a big project, one with the idea that we needed to make a Castlevania which had that same kind of feverish Western support, and that's why Kojima Productions came in to help," Kojima...
Although Kojima did cite Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots as his last ever Metal Gear game, he's decided to return to the series that made him a star one more time - with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Speaking in Famitsu, Kojima describes Peace Walker as "his personal MGS5" and that the MGS4 team are working on it. But what of...
News Bikinis Are Now Available In Metal Gear Online
You know what Metal Gear Online has been missing? Bikinis
Thank goodness Kojima-san and his Konami crew have considered it worthwhile to add such neccessities to the game as way of a celebration for its first birthday. You'll need the GENE update to download the bikinis. Check them in action after the jump. Big bums indeed.
News Metal Gear Solid: Rising Won't Use The Metal Gear Solid 4 Engine
The biggest question on our lips since the multi-platform announcement of Metal Gear Solid: Rising has been: how will the addition of a platform skew the output? We know the XBOX is a fine system, but it also lack disc and definite hard-drive space -- something that's had us pondering whether MGS:R will end up being a lesser product than its older brother
In Kojima Production's latest podcast they assure fans it won't be a problem at all. In fact, Kojima Productions even promise that Metal Gear Solid: Rising will end up looking bett...
News Metal Gear Solid Coming As A Download To The PSN
You know, when Jack Tretton stood up on stage and said there were more PSone games coming to the PSN we wanted to believe him but we just didn't think it was going to happen
Then bam! Final Fantasy VII went live on the American PSN almost immediately. Well following that up on June 18th is the original Metal Gear Solid. No word on a European release...
E3 2009 Kojima Passing Metal Gear Solid: Rising Onto The "Young Bloods", Will Focus On Peace Walker
Hideo Kojima will pass the development of Metal Gear Solid: Rising onto the "young bloods" at Kojima Productions
He'll take a backset on the game's development, instead focusing his attention on the PSP's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker."We're creating Rising with Kojima Productions' up-and-coming young bloods, because the game is for the young...
E3 2009 First Look At Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow
Kratos' first showing on Playstation 3 looked mighty incredible
But Kratos might do well to be a little concerned these days - what with Dante's Inferno and now, Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow lingering. The game is being developed by Mercurysteam but is being overlooked by the ever-so important Kojima Productions team. And it looks like that input is...
E3 2009 Sony Exec "Looks Forward To Playing Metal Gear Solid Rising On Playstation 3"
Peter Dille, Sony's head of marketing for the US, has claimed he's "looking forward to playing Metal Gear Solid Rising on the Playstation 3
" When asked if the game would come out on the same day as the 360 he responded "yes, that's correct.""I think the difference between our approach in our press conference and our competitors'...
E3 2009 Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker Trailer Revealed
As predicted, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima took to the stage at Sony's E3 conference today to announce Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker for the PSP
The game is set ten years after Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and is said to be the "true" sequel. Two Metal Gear games coming to Playstation platforms?!? The game will launch next year.
E3 2009 Kojima Taking On A Third Game? This Time Castlevania?
As part of a trio of reveals from press site GamesPress we now have details on Metal Gear Solid Rising's platform origins, Metal Gear Solid's romp on the PSP with Peace Walker and also a new Castlevania game entitled - Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow
Lords Of Shadow was a game originally pitched as an "action IP" by Madrid-based Mercury...
E3 2009 Kojima's PSP Outing Will Be Titled Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
So much for being done with the Metal Gear Solid franchise, eh Kojima? Not only do we have Metal Gear Solid Rising, but announced via the very same press site we posted about earlier is a listing for Kojima's PSP game - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
The game is scheduled for a 2010 release.
E3 2009 Metal Gear Solid Rising Destined For Playstation 3, 360 & PC
Hideo Kojima may have announced Metal Gear Solid Rising is in development for XBOX 360, but, hey, you know what? It's multiplatform
We already assumed that after Konami dodged the term "exclusive" and Microsoft's John Schappert clarified no exclusivity. But hey - a press listing for the game on PS3 and PC has pretty much confirmed things...
E3 2009 ... And Microsoft Clarify Metal Gear Solid: Rising Is NOT Exclusive
Microsoft may have invited Hideo Kojima on stage to announce his new Metal Gear Solid game; but there was no mention of exclusivity
Why? Because it's not exclusive."You know, we didn't say that it was exclusive," clarified Xbox executive and corporate VP John Schappert (he was the guy hosting most of the event) during an interview with me...
E3 2009 No Comment On Metal Gear Solid Rising Format
Konami has declined to comment on the platform of Metal Gear Solid Rising; neither confirming XBOX 360 exclusivity, nor denying a Playstation 3 version
Kojima surely won't deny the platform that has made his franchise a success?
E3 2009 New Metal Gear Game Announced For The XBOX 360
A new Metal Gear game entitled Metal Gear Rising was just announced for the XBOX 360
Most interesting part of this - the word "exclusive" was not mentioned at all. Expect Hideo Kojima to show up at Sony's E3 conference tomorrow.
News Kojima Productions Website Reveals A Parting Of The Clouds
The Kojima Productions website is still updating
But it's E3 this week, and it's unlikely to update many more times. We're going to hear something folks. Kojima is going to make an announcement of some kind. And that means we get to stop posting about these ridiculous countdowns. Today's post may be the last, it may be the penultimate, but either...
News Kojima Announcement Is Certainly Hotting Up, "MASK" Revealed
Kojima has an announcement coming
He's probably running one of the most closely followed "viral marketing hype super-duper" campaigns (they taught us about these in Business Studies!) ever. The weather in the main teaser is worsening. An image of Raiden keeps popping up - but is it Raiden? It kinda looks like Sunny. And now just to top it...
News Kojima's Countdown Teaser Updates Yet Again... This Time With Big Boss!
Another day, the end of another countdown over on Kojima's now infamous webpage
There's one thing to be said for Kojima Productions - they know how to create hype. The latest update sports, well, another countdown, but this time placed upon the face of Big Boss. He's looking somewhat older than he did in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater we'd like to...
News Silhouette Teaser Of Kojima's Next Game Hinted In Playstation World Magazine
Here's your first image of Kojima's next game
In typical style, it's blacked out, and raises more questions than it answers. There's nothing much else for us to say, aside from the fact it was printed in an, ahem, Playstation magazine. So that's Famitsu's Playstation mag and a British Playstation mag talking about Kojima now. Ahem. Oh God! We can't...
News "Next Metal Gear" Revealed In Upcoming Issue Of Famitsu Playstation
So, there you have
There's another Metal Gear game on the way. And it's coming to a Playstation platform; be it PS3 or PSP. A listing on the 7-Eleven product database confirms that the May 30th issue of Famitsu PS3+PSP will feature details on the "Next Metal Gear". Presumably playing into the Kojima's countdown shenanigans, we're going to...
Remember that Kojima announcement that was supposed to happen today? Well, it was a countdown
Five different countdowns to be precise. The last of which leads to an announcement on June 1st. Which incidentally is Microsoft's E3 conference - possible coincedence? We're not sure; let's face it, it wouldn't be the first time Sony literally allowed...
News New Race Feature Coming To Metal Gear Online
What better way to spend your time in Metal Gear Online than racing
The race mission will have two teams running through checkpoints after tracking down their frog and duck KEROTAN and GA-KO items (seriously!). Presumably the match is won by the team who passes through enough checkpoints mascot in hand. It's a pretty novel mode for a shooter. The...
News Who Wants A New Zone Of The Enders Then?
The last Zone Of The Enders game came six years ago and has developed quite a cult following ever since
Always living in the shadow of Hideo Kojima's "other" franchise, Metal Gear Solid, Kojima wants to know if fans are ready for more Z.O.E. While nothing is guaranteed yet, fan reaction has been through the roof for a new Z.O.E., something...
Feature Hideo Kojima's Top 15 Films That Inspired Metal Gear Solid
The more we see of Kojima's work the more we consider him a mythical being as opposed to human flesh like the rest of us
So it's interesting to see what kind of movies inspires such an inspirational mind. Listed below are the top movies that inspired his Metal Gear Solid franchise: The Guns of Navarone The Great Escape Goldfinger 2001: A Space...
