Say what you will about auteur theory, but some artists demand it. Take Hideo Kojima, whose 1998 masterpiece Metal Gear Solid is covered in its creator’s fingerprints. After a long, expository cutscene, and a Hollywood-style opening-credits sequence featuring mostly fake names, you sneak through a dank subterranean…
Welcome back to our Game In Progress review of Metal Gear Survive. This week, we’re wrapping up with thoughts on the game’s story, how it fits into the Metal Gear canon, and what kind of meta-commentary it might be hiding. Specific plot details follow.
Welcome to our Game In Progress review of Metal Gear Survive. This week, we’ll cover the basics of this spin-off of the legendary stealth series.
Way back in 2014, years before he directed Kong: Skull Island, Jordan Vogt-Roberts was attached to direct a movie version of Metal Gear Solid, the first game in what is arguably the greatest video game series of all time for people who like walking tanks, global conspiracies, elderly terrorists who dress like…
Hideo Kojima is the legendary game designer who created the long-running and absolutely insane Metal Gear series. He’s also a cinephile who loves to talk about his favorite movies and the ones that influenced his iconic game series. It seems he’s found another film to add to that list of essentials, Christopher…
Melania Trump and Donald Trump are not in love. She was ready to live out her days quietly tolerating her senile, oafish husband in a gold-plated tower. Then he accidentally became president and fucked everything up. You could see this writ in her face on the day of his inauguration, not to mention the fact that since…
Selling crap to people born in the ‘80s and ‘90s is tough, partly because they’re too savvy to fall for old marketing tricks and partly because the older generations totally tanked the economy for a few years with their stupid wars and tax cuts. However, Ford has actually come up with a clever way to reach these…
After an ugly, public falling out between the Metal Gear series’ publisher, Konami, and its creative mastermind, Hideo Kojima, we learned of his fate almost immediately. Freed from shackles of a company that was more interested in Japan’s gambling market than anything involving video games, Kojima would shack up with…
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It’s finally officially official: Hideo Kojima, the creator of Metal Gear Solid and one of the world’s most famous game developers, is no longer working for Konami. A Japanese newspaper broke the story yesterday and Kojima later confirmed the end of his contract in a tweet, but the details of the fallout remained hazy…
This article contains plot details from Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
Seth Abramovitch’s recent interview in The Hollywood Reporter doesn’t shed much new light on “horror master” John Carpenter’s career (Did you know that The Shape’s mask in Halloween is actually a William Shatner mask? That young Michael Myers’ hand in the opening tracking shot of Halloween is actually that of…
Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Sony already announced a ton of stuff at its Gamescom press conference earlier today, but it decided to make people work for its final—and arguably most exciting—reveal. During the presentation, Sony showed a teaser for a new horror game code-named P.T. that fans could download a demo for on their PlayStations at…
Sony is reportedly in early talks with The Kings Of Summer director Jordan Vogt-Roberts to direct a big-screen adaptation of the 1998 Playstation blockbuster Metal Gear Solid. If you’re a fan of the series, and a giant white exclamation point just popped out of your head in alarm, your reaction is understandable.…
X-ray vision and similar superhuman visual tricks have become a video game design staple. As the worlds in mainstream games grow more detailed and complex, it can be helpful to let a player see through walls or to highlight objects of interest—used properly, x-ray vision not only enlivens an environment but also makes…
