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Solid Snake was the first Xbox One star to appear at today’s Microsoft press conference. The platform holder kicked off its event with a lengthy trailer demonstrating the open world gameplay of the upcoming stealth action game. Using the new Fox engine, Metal Gear Solid V offers realtime weather and …
Read More »Konami pre-E3 event to show off Phantom Pain, "wealth of new titles"
Konami has announced details regarding its pre-E3 event next month, including what games will be showcased and where it can be viewed online. The presentation will take place on June 6th at 11 AM Pacific time (the week prior to E3 2013), and can be viewed under ‘Events’ on Konami’s …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid snub makes David Hayter "feel a little ill"
Solid Snake may be returning in both the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and its standalone prequel Ground Zeroes, but it won’t be Snake as we know it. That’s because David Hayter – the man made famous for voicing the gravelly-toned stealth specialist – hasn’t be asked …
Read More »VIDEO: First official trailer for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Konami has released a five-minute trailer for the freshly announced Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The game, which had been previously announced under two separate guises in the form of MGS: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, is due out on PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year. …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Hideo Kojima revealed at his GDC presentation earlier today that The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes are the same game – Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. Kojima arrived at his GDC presentation with his face bandaged up, revealing what we already knew – that The Phantom Pain was …
Read More »The puzzle is solved – Kojima reveals Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Konami’s cryptic PR campaign has finally been unravelled. Although do we know if the dude with the face was CGI or what? Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has confirmed that both Ground Zeroes, which was announced in August last year, and video curiosity The Phantom Pain are both one and …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid V reveal this Thursday?
Gamers could get their first glimpse of Metal Gear Solid V later this week. That is, of course, if you’re one of the many gamers who firmly believe that mysterious outing The Phantom Pain, developed by the unknown Moby Dick Studio Head, is indeed the next Metal Gear game. And …
Read More »The Phantom Pain PR master class
Few game IPs command as loyal a following as Metal Gear Solid – and Konami knows this all too well. So when a trailer for a supposedly new IP was premiered at the VGAs last week, whomever was behind it knew that eagle-eyed gamers would do the rest. And what …
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