After Much Ado…Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are Metal Gear Solid 5
Wednesday, 27th March 2013Posted in Preview
Tags: game, gear, kojima, metal, Metal Gear Solid 5, pain, phantom, Snake, The Phantom Pain, trailer
Written by: Craig Hunter
It has been a weird and interesting ride Kojima has taken us on with this whole Phantom Pain fiasco and today he hit the stage at GDC with what many hoped would finally clear the air–and now it is.
We now know that both The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes together make up Metal gear Solid 5.
You can watch the new MGS5 trailer below.
Hideo Kojima Talks Playstation 4 and More Metal Gear Spin-Offs
Thursday, 28th February 2013Posted in Preview
Tags: gear, Gray Fox, hardware, kojima, metal, metal gear, new, Revengeance, somebody, spin-off, The Boss
Written by: Craig Hunter
Hideo Kojima recently spoke about his thoughts on the Playstation 4 as well as on more Metal Gear spin-offs like the recent Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Kojima did not get a chance to watch the Sony Meeting event where the PS4 was officially revealed, but he is very interested in its new functionality.
He spoke about how he is very interested in the online connectivity and social interactions the PS4 is bringing more so than its jump in fidelity.
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Metal Gear Rising Receives Favorable Review Scores, Hideo Kojima: “I didn’t think we’d have it go this well” [Video]
Wednesday, 20th February 2013Posted in Industry
Tags: characters, hideo, kojima, new, platinum, polygon, Revengeance, think
Written by: Craig Hunter
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has now been released and has received mostly favorable review scores.
Today we have an interview Hideo Kojima did with Famitsu talking about the Raiden game that he “didn’t think” would “go this well.” Check out the latest MGR trailer cut by Hideo Kojima below.
Kojima Scheduled To Deliver GDC Talk Showcasing FOX Engine Demo and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes
Wednesday, 13th February 2013Posted in Industry
Tags: engine, game, gdc, gear, ground, kojima, metal, zeroes
Written by: Craig Hunter
Celebrated game developer Hideo Kojima is set to appear at this year’s GDC in late March. He will be bringing a live demo of Fox Engine along with information on the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (via Joystiq).
The Metal Gear creator hasn’t spoken at GDC since 2009, back when we were all wondering whether or not MGS 4 would hit the 360.
The GDC official site says, “Game Developers Conference 2013 organizers have announced a special lecture from Konami’s Hideo Kojima, who will publicly show his division’s FOX Engine in detail for the first time, via demonstrations of the development process and workflow behind Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes.”
Daily Gaming: Brand New Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Gameplay [15 min]
Thursday, 20th September 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: blade mode, chainsaw, kojima, Metal Gear Rising, Monsoon, platinum games, Raiden, Revengeance
Written by: Craig Hunter
We have some brand new footage of next year’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance from the Tokyo Game Show. Kojima Productions and Platinum Games have brought us both a new trailer and now we have 15 minutes of gameplay right from the show floor (below via GT).
Revengeance will be the first action oriented title in the Metal Gear franchise, promising to bring the action we see in the cutscenes with Raiden in MGS 4 in to gameplay. We get a chance to see some new characters and presumably bosses including Monsoon (below) and Mistral.
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Daily Gaming: MGS Ground Zeroes Is Not Project Ogre
Monday, 3rd September 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: Big Boss, Ground Zeroes, kojima, Konami, Metal Gear Sold, Naked Snake, Project Ogre, Snake, stealth
Written by: Craig Hunter
With Konami and KojiPro announcing the next iteration in the famed Metal Gear franchise Ground Zeroes, just last week, the companies have now released the first gameplay footage. You can see the extended cut from the Konami PAX presentation below.
The ninth entry in the Metal Gear series and the first to have an open world structure, Ground Zeroes will feature the return of Naked Snake. Also known as Big Boss and is one of the founding members of the Patriots, Naked Snake made his first appearance back 1987′s “Metal Gear”.
Hideo Kojima said at PAX that Ground Zeroes will act as a prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5 and will be released for current-gen hardware. Continue reading “Daily Gaming: MGS Ground Zeroes Is Not Project Ogre” »
Daily Gaming: Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes
Thursday, 30th August 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: Evac, Game Over, Ground Zeroes, kojima, Konami, Metal Gear Sold, Snake, stealth
Written by: Craig Hunter
Today in Tokyo at the 25 Anniversary Metal Gear event, Kojima productions showed off its Fox Engine with footage of something called Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Although the details are still a little scarce this is indeed a game, not just a tech demo.
Based on the initial reactions across the web and from those that attended the event the footage was very impressive. As snake infiltrated a facility we got a chance to see how well the Fox Engine handled things like lighting, weather effects and textures.
Reports do put ‘Snake’ in the demo footage but it is unclear what snake we are seeing, another clone? Are we going back in time? Continue reading “Daily Gaming: Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes” »
Daily Gaming: Metal Gear Solid Film Gets the Green Light
Thursday, 30th August 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: adaption, Columbia Pictures, Evac, Ground Zeroes, kojima, Konami, Metal Gear Sold, movie
Written by: Craig Hunter
At the 25 Anniversary Metal Gear event in Tokyo, Kojima productions announced an alleged new MGS title as well as a brand new Metal Gear film adaption.
For years now there has been rumors of a Hollywood film adaption for the beloved stealth franchise unfortunately nothing has come to fruition. Today at the event Kojima announced that Columbia Pictures will be making a big budget Metal Gear film (via Kotaku).
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Daily Gaming: Metal Gear Rising on Vita?
Tuesday, 21st August 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: blade mode, free cut, kojima, Metal Gear Rising, platinum games, Raiden, Revengeance, vita
Written by: Craig Hunter
With MGS fans everywhere eagerly awaiting Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, today we get word that game is just to complex and powerful to run on the Playstation Vita. Developed by Platinum Games, the beat’em up, hack’n slash MG spin off will not be coming to the Vita because the console is just not powerful enough.
More specifically its the game’s free cut system that has prompted Kojima Productions creative producer Yuji Korekado to express concerns about whether or not the Sony mobile console could keep up.
The free cutting system, which is one of the main features of the upcoming title, allows players to slow time and cut through just about any object in the environment with extreme precision using Raiden’s sword. Continue reading “Daily Gaming: Metal Gear Rising on Vita?” »
DAILY GAMING: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Brand New GamePlay Video
Friday, 20th July 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: blade mode, combat, cyborgs, kojima, Metal Gear Rising, platinum games, Raiden, Revengeance
Written by: Craig Hunter
A new video from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was released today that features 3 minutes of gameplay (below) (via The Verge). The footage is a VR tutorial sequence where Raiden, the game’s protagonist, shows of his “Blade Mode” abilities as well as some of his basic combat moves.
Blade Mode allows the player to slow down time in order to make precise cuts on enemies, cars, watermelons and other things. At one point in the video we see Blade Mode allow Raiden to precisely cut an enemy in order to safely free a hostage. Continue reading “DAILY GAMING: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Brand New GamePlay Video” »
New Zone Of The Enders Announced
Friday, 25th May 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: Enders Project, Hideo Kojima, japan, kojima, Kojima Productions, Konami, Metal Gear Solid, The 2nd Runner, Zone of Enders, Zone of The Enders, Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
Written by: Craig Hunter
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Today at a Zone of The Enders event in Tokyo, Kojima Productions announced that it is working on a brand new Zone of The Enders project. MGS creator, Hideo Kojima helped launch the announcement for the new project temporarily dubbed “Enders Project.”
Although, it is still unclear as to whether or not this is an official announcement for a new game or just that the IP is going into proto-type development. According to a tweet of an attendee of the event in Japan the new project is a sequel to Zone of The Enders: The 2nd Runner. The tweet also mentioned that the game will not take place in a futuristic setting but in an ancient civilization instead, indicating the title is already in development.
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Unbelievable Renders From Fox Engine: Can You Tell Which Is Real?
Friday, 2nd March 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Technology
Tags: engine, fox, kojima, lighting, metal gear, renderings
Written by: Craig Hunter
As of yesterday, Hideo Kojima promised that there would soon be an update regarding the Fox Engine and today he definitely didn’t disappoint. The question has been brought up before: “When will the graphics ever look REAL?!”. Kojima’s Fox Engine might be the answer.
The Kojima tweet from yesterday said that Fox Engine updates will be posted to the Kojima Productions recruitment page and is targeted to “technological types” Today we see a small image on the recruitment page reading, “Fox Engine-Lighting Sample, CLASSIFIED”. The images within are renderings from the brand new Fox Engine placed next to actual photographs. Can you tell the renderings from Fox Engine apart from the real photos?
“Is it REAL, or is it FOX?” Continue reading “Unbelievable Renders From Fox Engine: Can You Tell Which Is Real?” »
Kojima’s Says “Project Ogre” Will Include Actual Ogres As 1/48 scale MG Rex Goes On Sale
Friday, 24th February 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: demon, devil, figure, game, hideo, kojima, metal gear, ogre, oni, preorder, project, tweet
Written by: Craig Hunter
With all of the news surrounding a new MGS in the works, we get some interesting news coming from a Hideo Kojima tweet today regarding what he calls “Project Ogre”. Although most of Project Ogre has lived in myth and theory, remaining mostly unknown, finally we get some insight into what the name itself actually means.
“Oh BTW, my Ogre Project doesn’t mean a game like a ogre nor a game create w/ soul of ogre but a game w/ the use of ogre.” – Kojima tweet
In the tweet, time stamped 7:12 PM – 23 Feb 12 and translated by Andriasang, Hideo explained that the term “ogre” is to be taken literally. The game, in Japanese “Oni Project”, will in some way, shape or form deal literally with ogre’s or oni. Pointed out by Andriasang,“oni” can be translated to not only “ogre” but a number of different things including the likes of “demon” and “devil”. Continue reading “Kojima’s Says “Project Ogre” Will Include Actual Ogres As 1/48 scale MG Rex Goes On Sale” »
Kojima Wants YOU! For The “Next” MGS, Coming to PCs And Consoles
Wednesday, 22nd February 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: console, engine, fox, hideo, kojima, Konami, MG5, mgs, PC, xbox
Written by: Craig Hunter
Taking the franchise even further outside just Sony platforms, Kojima Productions has seemingly announced development on a new MGS title that could see the franchise running on the PC in addition to consoles. Kojima and his team are recruiting new talent “to help develop next-gen game engine technology for use with the ‘FOX Engine’.”
A job listing on the Konami website titled, “BIG BOSS wants YOU! THE “NEXT” MGS”, said Konami will be attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next month in search of fresh blood. ” Kojima Productions will be returning to the GDC Career Pavilion (March 6th – 9th) to search for skillful engineers, artists, and game creators…” (booth, #1914 – Career Pavilion)
With Kojima Productions currently working with fellow Japanese Studio Platinum Games on Metal Gear Rising, and its growing interest in collaboration, it seems as though Kojima has decided to create the “Next” Metal Gear Solid both in Japan and stateside. Continue reading “Kojima Wants YOU! For The “Next” MGS, Coming to PCs And Consoles” »
Hideo Kojima to spill the beans on Metal Gear Solid 5: “Snake Was Supposed To Die”
Monday, 21st November 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: gear, hideo, interview, issue, kojima, magazine, metal, MG5, Rising, Snake, solid, video
Written by: Craig Hunter
While everyone is focused on his upcoming “Lightning Bolt Action” epic Metal Gear Solid Rising starring Metal Gear Solid 2 lead Raiden, franchise creator Hideo Kojima is finally ready to talk Metal Gear Solid 5 in the upcoming Issue 65 of Official PlayStatiom Magazine UK edition.
A post on the publication’s website describes the issue, which features an exclusive interview with Kojima, as the first issue in the magazine’s 16-years running with a developer on the cover. Continue reading “Hideo Kojima to spill the beans on Metal Gear Solid 5: “Snake Was Supposed To Die”” »
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