Video game studio is told it doesn’t have to close, but decides to make worker safety its priority.
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Hideo Kojima’s company closes office after employee confirmed infected with coronavirus
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Casey Baseel
Mar 31, 2020 - Tweet
Hideo Kojima thinks there’s a better way to spend your coronavirus free time than playing games
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Casey Baseel
Mar 18, 2020
Director of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding recommends putting down the analog sticks in order to do something else as you hunker down at home.
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Keanu Reeves speaks Japanese to Cyberpunk 2077 fans at Tokyo Game Show【Video】
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Oona McGee
Sep 13, 2019
The only thing better than hearing Keanu say “Wake up samurai” is hearing him say it in Japanese.
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Hideo Kojima stopped by U.S. customs for attempting to bring in unnerving plastic baby pod
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Koh Ruide
Jul 28, 2019
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We just played Tokyo’s Metal Gear Real Infiltration Game, and it’s unbelievably awesome
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Casey Baseel
Sep 28, 2018
11 things to know before playing the English-friendly real-life version of the hit video game.
- Japan
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Conan O’Brien asks Hideo Kojima for a job, sings Live Band Karaoke, and says sayonara to Japan
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Oona McGee
Sep 11, 2018
Conan and his team packed in as much of Tokyo as possible during the final days of their Japanese trip.
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- (celebrities • Conan • Conan O'Brien • Conan Town • Hideo Kojima • karaoke • Kojima Productions • video games)
Metal Gear Solid is now real with awesome “real infiltration game” opening in Tokyo【Video】
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Casey Baseel
Sep 3, 2018
Players can use cardboard boxes, Snake’s patented hold-up move to outwit armed human guards.
- Japan
- (awesome • cool • escape games • Hideo Kojima • Metal Gear Solid • real escape games • shinjuku • video • video games)
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)
Trailer for Death Stranding – Kojima’s first game after Konami – is here and it’s amazing【Video】
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Scott Wilson
Jun 14, 2016
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)
Metal Gear’s Hideo Kojima: Endings “the least necessary part” of a game for overseas players
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Casey Baseel
Apr 21, 2016
Famed Metal Gear director calls Japanese creators “strange” for spending so much time and money on their finales.
Hideo Kojima huggy pillows keep showing up at American anime and game conventions 【Photos】
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Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2016
Now you and the director of such video game hits as Metal Gear can snuggle all through the night.
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Hideo Kojima, Guillermo del Toro to Host Joint Presentation at D.I.C.E. Summit
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