#August2015

‘Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’ Launch Trailer: Of All That Was & Will Be

Konami apparently running its company like a gulag; cameras everywhere, timed lunches

hideo kojima

Well. Fuck. No wonder Hideo Kojima got fired/got the fuck out of dodge. A man of his sizable personality and auteur-vision certainly wouldn’t fit into the gulag that Konami has become.

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Del Toro: ‘Silent Hills’ may be dead, but I still want to work with Kojima on a game

Guillermo del Toro.

From the Ashes of Suck rises a potentially awesome Phoenix of Collaboration! Shitty figurative language! Wee! Come and stop me! Or! Focus instead on this rather awesome little development. Konami may have strangled Silent Hills into oblivion, but that disgusting act of malice may not have ended a potential Del Toro/Kojima project.

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‘Metal Gear Solid 5’ Poster: Revenge Has A Cost

‘Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’ E3 Trailer: Blood & Thunder

Konami CEO: Mobile is the future of gaming, we out of the AAA game

hideo kojima

I think it was long-suspected that Konami was getting out of the AAA game business. Especially since they’ve fired Hideo Kojami and/or banished to him some nether realm. But now the CEO of said company has come out and confirmed it.

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‘METAL GEAR SOLID: GROUND ZEROES’ announced. Sexy Snake is back, yo!

People attending the Metal Gear 25th anniversary event were lucky enough to catch a glimpse at the next MGS jam. The game is titled Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, and if the teaser footage is any indication, we’re getting sexy Snake back. I’m pumped. Don’t get me wrong, having Snake as an old wizened piece of shit in MGs4 made sense thematically. Emotionally, it was a drag carrying his old fart balls around.

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‘METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE’ TRAILER: CUT THINGS. A LOT OF THEM.

E3 is coming, and before it arrives it seems intent on dropping mad trailers on our skulls. Mad trailers! (Suburban hustle right here) The latest game to get a trailer is Metal Gear Rising: You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me That’s Not A Word, and the trailer itself seems pretty fucking awful. I love it.

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Konami Recruiting For The ‘Latest Metal Gear Solid’

Go figure. There’s going to be a new Metal Gear Solid. Who knows what’s going to be going on in it, but Jesus Christ someone get that mustache off of Solid.

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Creator Of The ‘Konami Code’ Talks About Its Origin.

Either you know the Konami Code, or you’re adrift in geek lore mediocrity. Ever wonder why it was the specific code it was? Neither did I. Get educated anyways.

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