News

What’s Hideo Kojima Doing On The New Z.O.E.? Not Enough.

Late last week, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima revealed a new Zone of the Enders project. Fans of the sci-fi series have been waiting for Kojima to start work on a new Z.O.E. The thing is, he won’t be doing much much work on it.


May 26, 2012
News

First Look At New Zone Of The Enders Project

Tonight at an event for Zone of the Enders, game designer Hideo Kojima and his studios Kojima Productions announced that they were working on a new Z.O.E. project that currently has the working title of “Enders Project”.


May 25, 2012
News

People Thought Hideo Kojima Was ‘Crazy’ When He Said He Wanted To Make Video Games

When Hideo Kojima started out in the games industry, he met a lot of people like himself, would-be creators like him who had set other life goals for themselves. The famed game designer wanted to make movies but never found a path to that aspiration and he worked with many others who got into games unexpectedly. A great two-part interview at The Guardian talks about how people reacted to the Metal Gear creator’s decision to go into games as a career and who Kojima’s unlikely peers were:


News

Konami Appears To Be Teasing Something Castlevania-Related

Over on its official Facebook page, Konami links out to a teaser site that sure seems to hint at something Dracula-related. The site bears the words “The Dragon Returns”, which refers to the linguistic roots of the evil count’s name. Dracul — as in Vlad Dracul — means dragon in Romanian.


May 24, 2012
e3 2012

Metal Gear Rising’s Title Screen Is Better Than All Those Live Action Trailers Combined

Kotaku AU

Technically a video game title screen is not news, but considering the fact all we’ve seen of Metal Gear Rising in the last couple of months is a set of mostly terrible live action trailers, it’s good to be reminded that a video game actually exists, and it looks quite swish.


May 22, 2012
e3 2012

Sounds Like Konami Will Be Announcing A New 3DS Castlevania At E3

The latest rumour suggests that Konami will be announcing a new Castlevainia game called Castlevainia: Mirror of Fate at E3.


May 18, 2012
In Real Life

Please, Stop Torturing Us With These Metal Gear Rising Torture Videos

There’s a simple rule publishers need to adhere to when it comes to live action marketing: either do it right, or don’t do it at all. Skimp on the quality, even just a little, and what you end up with will probably be a bit shit.


May 1, 2012
PlayStation

Metal Gear Solid HD Trailer Sneaks Out

Konami released a rather polished trailer for the previously announced PS Vita version of Metal Gear Solid: HD Edition that walks through the Vita specific features.


PlayStation

New Metal Gear Rising Trailer Is Like An Acid Trip Gone Bad

I just… don’t know what I’m watching. I’ve watched this new Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance trailer three times already and I still have no idea what’s going on. It’s like that weird video from Lost. Or pretty much anything from the Metal Gear Solid series.


April 20, 2012
Retro

Those Dudes In Castlevania Are Pretty Intense

Unlike the Konami of the day, which relies almost entirely on milking a couple of key franchises and selling mobile games in Japan, the Konami of the 1980s was a more exciting company. You could say, in fact, they were jammin.