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Game’s first preview has fans scratching their heads and rolling their eyes as the innovative series seemingly resorts to a zombie apocalypse scenario.

Japan
(Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Survive • video • video games)

Feast your eyes on this incredibly detailed US$300 Venom Snake statue complete with cute puppy

Mike
Jul 11, 2016

Boutique figure maker Gecco introduces an ultra-detailed statue of Venom Snake from Metal Gear Solid V that will lighten your wallet and make you weep tears of nerd joy.

Entertainment, Global
(figures • Gecco • Konami • Metal Gear • solid snake • toys • video games)

Metal Gear fans’ worst fear comes true as proud video game masterpiece becomes a pachinko machine

Casey Baseel
Jun 2, 2016

Depending on how cynical a gamer you are, this is either the last thing you expected, or the first.

Games & Tech, Japan
(Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear • pachinko • video • video games)

Metal Gear’s Hideo Kojima: Endings “the least necessary part” of a game for overseas players

Casey Baseel
Apr 21, 2016

Famed Metal Gear director calls Japanese creators “strange” for spending so much time and money on their finales.

Games & Tech, Global, Japan
(Hideo Kojima • Metal Gear • video games)

Hideo Kojima huggy pillows keep showing up at American anime and game conventions 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2016

Now you and the director of such video game hits as Metal Gear can snuggle all through the night.

USA
(body pillows • funny • Hideo Kojima • huggy pillows • Metal Gear • video games • weird)

Video game legend Hideo Kojima’s new YouTube channel launches 【Updated】

Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2016

Metal Gear director’s first video will reveal his picks for the top 10 movies of 2015.

Internet
(Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear • movies • video games • YouTube)

Ever wanted to work with legendary video game creator Hideo Kojima? Kojima Productions now hiring

Casey Baseel
Dec 17, 2015

Newly formed Kojima Productions is looking to hire a few good video game developers, plus find customers for its online store.

Japan
(Hideo Kojima • jobs • Kojima Productions • Metal Gear • playstation • video games)

Hideo Kojima officially leaves Konami, opens own studio, announces new PlayStation 4 game 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 16, 2015

He kept us waiting, but the internationally renowned video game director is finally ready to start work on his next project.

Japan
(Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid • playstation • Silent Hills • video • video games)

New female Metal Gear figure features a heaping helping of suggestiveness…and a doggy! 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Nov 20, 2015

Sniper Wolf figure hits the bullseye where a love of boobs, video games, and dogs overlap.

Japan
(figures • Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid • toys • video games)

Korean criminals take a page from Metal Gear with cardboard box burglaries 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 14, 2015

After a vague yet indiscreet falling out with video game publisher Konami, it seems likely that Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear franchise, won’t be working at the company for much longer. As one of the most famous and respected names in the industry, though, we’re sure Kojima will be able to find employment at one of Konami’s many rivals who are licking their lips in anticipation of landing such a prized free agent.

However, we’re not so sure about the future financial well-being of the characters Kojima has created. This video seems to suggest that Metal Gear protagonist Snake has resorted to a life of crime, as multiple burglaries have taken place in Korea with the culprit using Snake’s trademark infiltration technique of disguising himself with a cardboard box.

Korea
(crime • funny • Metal Gear • video • video games)

Meet the real Revolver Ocelot and check out his awesome Metal Gear cosplay/gunplay 【Videos】

Casey Baseel
Sep 24, 2015

Thanks to the extensive use of motion capture actors in the modern era, when a video game knight swings a sword to take down a fearsome dragon or a grizzled space marine aims a bazooka at an invading alien army, somewhere out there is a real person who performed the dramatic movements and cool poses. Of course, since the whole point of motion capture is to apply those movements to a totally different-looking frame, the actors themselves tend to live lives of relative obscurity.

At the recent Tokyo Game Show, though, fans got the chance to meet the real Revolver Ocelot, as the actor behind the pistol-loving Metal Gear Solid character showed up in costume and showed off his skills.

Japan
(awesome • cool • cosplay • Metal Gear • Tokyo Game Show 2015 • video • video games)

Metal Gear movie finds scriptwriter, presumably prepared to write dialogue including “Snaaake!!!”

Casey Baseel
Apr 2, 2015

For decades, the Metal Gear franchise has been teaching video game players to be patient. In contrast to other games, where the hero can just load up on firepower and go charging in with guns blazing, Metal Gear is all about staying hidden, carefully infiltrating enemy territory, and only striking when the time is right.

Fans have been putting that patience to use as the most popular branch of the franchise, Metal Gear Solid, keeps inching towards its long-discussed live-action film adaptation. The production seems to have finally hit another checkpoint, though, with reports that the movie now has a scriptwriter.

Global, Japan
(Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid • movies • video games)

Is Metal Gear Solid V finally getting a release date? Mysterious countdown appears on website

Casey Baseel
Mar 3, 2015

Instant gratification and quick answers aren’t exactly the hallmarks of the Metal Gear video game franchise. Not only does its stealth-based gameplay reward patience over diving head-first into combat, but the events set in motion in 1998’s Metal Gear Solid, most modern gamers entry point into the series, didn’t get any sort of conclusion until the release of Metal Gear Solid 4, a full 10 years later.

There’s been a similarly slowly paced trickle of information about the series’ newest chapter, the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which has been featured in trade show videos for years, and even had its own commercially released, extended-length preview game, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Now, the next tidbit seems to be coming soon, as a mysterious countdown clock has appeared on the official Metal Gear V website.