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Disgraced Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson is being expunged from the world of games. 28-year old Johnson faces a prison sentence after being found guilty of sexual activity with an underage girl. Due to the nature of his crime football game publishers are currently working to remove him from their titles. …
Read More »PES’s Euro 2016 DLC lacks some licensed teams
Konami’s upcoming Euro 2016 DLC for PES 2016 will not feature a full licensed roster of teams. 24 teams feature in the tournament, but only 15 of them will be officially licensed in the expansion. Missing out are Ireland, Russia, Switzerland, Romania, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Belgium and Hungary. The licensed …
Read More »Kojima: My games are delivered on time and on budget
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has said the perception that he takes too long and spends too much money on development of his games is untrue. The statement came in an interview with GameSpot that coincided with his receipt of an AIAS Hall of Fame award at last night’s …
Read More »Cliff Bleszinski declined offer from Hideo Kojima to work on Silent Hills
Gears of War creator claims he refused because ‘I love new IP and would’ve fucked up Silent Hills’
Read More »Free-to-play PES 2016 kicks off on PC today
Konami’s F2P version of its football release PES 2016 is now available on PC. Having arrived on PS4 and PS3 last month, the trimmed-down version of last year’s full-blooded premium release offers seven teams and three game modes – Exhibition, Training and MyClub, which is Konami’s answer to EA’s lucrative …
Read More »Konami has shipped 6m units of Metal Gear Solid V
Japanese publisher Konami has revealed it has sold in six million copies of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain to retail. This figure only represents the number of units bought in by stores, and does not mean that Metal Gear Solid V has sold six million units. This figure …
Read More »Guillermo del Toro to present Kojima with DICE Hall of Fame Award
There’s not a lawyer in the world that can stop Hideo Kojima from accepting his next award in person. It has been confirmed that the Metal Gear Solid creator will become the 21st member of the DICE Hall of Fame at the 19th DICE Awards on February 19th. Furthermore, film …
Read More »Metacritic crowns Metal Gear Solid V 2015’s best game, PS4 best console
The annual ranking at reviews aggregator Metacritic has named Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain as 2015’s highest reviewed game. However, the site’s takeaway message is thus: For the past several years, our year-end report on the year in games has contained a note stating that if the newest …
Read More »Kojima banned from discussing Konami split
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has revealed that he is ‘contractually forbidden’ from discussing his split with Konami. However, in an interview with The New Yorker, the developer was able to discuss the difficulties of being accountable to a large publisher and the opportunities that going independent will afford …
Read More »Metal Gear vets join Kojima Productions; Non-games projects possible
Two veterans of the Metal Gear series have joined Hideo Kojima’s new studio. Artist Yoji Shinkawa and producer Ken Imaizumi have both joined up with their former boss, who told IGN that Kojima Productions may move beyond the confines of merely games. "I’m thinking smaller-scale, not too many people, and …
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