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- (fashion • Konami • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid • shirts • t-shirts • Uniqlo • video games)
Dance Dance Revolution Classic mini console set to bring the beat back in micro style【Video】
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Casey Baseel
Oct 5, 2023
Three titles from the groundbreaking rhythm game franchise and tons of design details packed into a cool little package.
- Japan
- (Dance Dance Revolution • Konami • mini consoles • music • retro games • rhythm games • video • video games)
Video game maker Konami employee tries to kill old boss with fire extinguisher
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Casey Baseel
Apr 13, 2023
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A pop-up cafe to open in Akihabara
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Master Blaster
Jan 19, 2022
- Japan
- (cheat codes • Gradius • Kazuhisa Hashimoto • Konami • konami code • programmers • video games)
Metal Gear Solid’s composer wants you to chill
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Viewster
May 29, 2017
Norihiko Hibino wants you to take a moment for yourself. Just relax. Let your worries fade. Get lost in his smooth saxophone sounds.
- Japan
- (anime • Konami • Metal Gear Solid • music • Norihiko Hibino • saxophone • video games • Viewster)
Trailer for Metal Gear Survive looks like the death of the video game franchise as we know it
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Casey Baseel
Aug 18, 2016
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)
The before-and-after photos of the room after a year of refinement show a gamer totally dedicated to his craft.
- Japan
- (Arcades • game centers • game centres • gamers • games • gaming • Groove Coaster • jubeat • Konami • Reflec Beat)
Feast your eyes on this incredibly detailed US$300 Venom Snake statue complete with cute puppy
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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
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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)
- Internet
- (Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear • movies • video games • YouTube)
Hideo Kojima officially leaves Konami, opens own studio, announces new PlayStation 4 game 【Video】
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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)
Popular Japanese rhythm game Pop’n Music’s cat and bunny mascots get a drastic makeover
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KK Miller
Dec 11, 2015
After 17 years of rigorous popping and music-ing, the franchise needed to make a change to keep from going stale. It’s just not the change that fans expected.
- Japan
- (characters • Konami • Pop'n Music • rhythm games • video games)
Geoff Keighley: Konami bans Metal Gear Solid V’s Hideo Kojima from game awards
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Anime News Network
Dec 4, 2015
- Japan
- (awards • ban • Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear Solid V • PlayStation Awards • video games)
New female Metal Gear figure features a heaping helping of suggestiveness…and a doggy! 【Photos】
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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)
The Phantom Limb Project: Gamer to get prosthetic limb inspired by Metal Gear Solid V
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Preston Phro
Nov 11, 2015
A collaboration between video game giant Konami and prostheses expert Sophie De Oliviera Barata aims to give an amputee gamer a new arm inspired by Metal Gear Solid.
It has been announced that Noriyoshi Ohrai—the Japanese illustrator best known for producing remarkable poster art for Metal Gear Solid as well as for films including the Godzilla series and Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back—passed away from pneumonia yesterday morning at the age of 79.
With a career spanning over half a century and an impressive portfolio of artworks for novels, games and well-known international movie releases, fans around the world are mourning the loss of a great talent and taking a look back at his extraordinary body of work.
- Japan
- (art • games • Godzilla • Konami • Metal Gear Solid • movies • poster art • Star Wars)
Video game developer and publisher Konami denied an earlier report by The New Yorker that Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima had left Konami. Konami stated that “Kojima is currently taking an extended vacation, and is currently still registered as an employee.”
- Japan
- (denial • Hideo Kojima • Konami • leaving Konami • Metal Gear Solid • video games)
Where have we heard Metal Gear Solid V’s iDroid voice before? When we last rode the Shinkansen!
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Evie Nyan
Sep 9, 2015
The release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has been met with as much excitement and frenzy as you might expect from the latest instalment of a legendary video game franchise. But while most players are preoccupied with riding D. Horse around, frolicking in cardboard boxes and puzzling over the intricate story, it’s a certain voiceover that’s had us scratching our heads. Where on earth have we heard iDroid‘s soothing tones before? Oh, that’s right – on the Shinkansen!
Voice actor and vocalist Donna Burke is a veteran of the video game industry, lending her vocal cords to multiple games including MGSV and Silent Hill, and she ALSO provided the English-language spoken announcement that’s broadcast on the bullet train to help foreign visitors navigate their way around Japan!
- Australia, Global, Internet, Japan
- (donna burke • iDroid • Konami • Metal Gear Solid V • shinkansen • Silent Hill • video games • voice actor)
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