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Konami has announced the next Metal Gear Solid game at a Japanese press event to mark the 25th anniversary of the franchise. Called Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, it makes a big departure from future games in the series by being open-world. Cut scenes (of which you can expect many) …
Read More »Trophy patch incoming for Metal Gear Solid 4
Metal Gear Solid 4 will at last receive a patch that will introduce support for PS3’s Trophy system. Andriasang reports that the news was broken by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima in an interview in this week’s issue of Japanese weekly Famitsu. Trophies will be integrated into disc copies of …
Read More »Metal Gear Rising confirmed for 2013
The spin-off to Konami’s flagship series will finally arrive early next year, the publisher has said. A gameplay trailer shown during the latest episode of GTTV confirmed Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will be released in 2013. The game is set after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4 and puts …
Read More »Konami using Fox Engine in next-gen PES
Hideo Kojima’s Fox Engine will power the future of the Pro Evolution Soccer series on next-gen consoles. Fox is a multi-platform engine designed by the studio behind the Metal Gear Solid series. It went into development after the developer shipped Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots in 2008. …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid HD sneaks onto Vita this summer
Konami has formally confirmed what many already knew: the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is coming to PlayStation Vita. The handheld compilation will arrive on shelves some time this summer. Like the 360 and PS3 SKUs, it will include updated versions of MGS2: Sons of Liberty, MGS3: Snake Eater and …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid HD Collection heading to Vita
Hideo Kojima, the creative mind behind the Metal Gear Solid series, has confirmed a PlayStation Vita version of Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection. Furthermore, the game will get exclusive new functionality designed to incorporate some of Vita’s exclusive features. You can slice enemy’s throat with knife if you flick the …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid: Rising producer steps down
Kojima Productions has confirmed that producer Shigenobu Matsuyama will no longer be working on the next Metal Gear title. Matsuyama has moved to another division within the company, and has been replaced by Yuji Korekado. The staff change was confirmed by producer Kenichiro Imaizumi, according to Andriasang, although it is …
Read More »Zone of the Enders 3DS teased
GAMESCOM:Signs are increasingly pointing to a big return for Hideo Kojima’s Zone of the Enders IP. An image posted to Twitter by Kojima himself clearly shows both a ZOE model and, far more interestingly, a background logo that clearly says ‘ZOE 3DS’. Kojima’s accompanying Tweet simply asks What’s this?”, so …
Read More »Kojima bemoans ‘meaningless year’
One of the most successful developers in the games business has lashed out on Twitter about what appears to be the cancellation of a mystery project. The thing that I spent one year delicately preparing became meaningless,” Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima posted on his Japanese Twitter feed, as …
Read More »NINTENDO: Kojima working on 3DS MGS concept
Nintendo confirms game is coming, as dev legend says he is experimenting with the concept
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