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Mecha cosplay team makes rideable full-scale Ghost in the Shell robot【Video】
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Casey Baseel
Oct 27, 2021
- Japan
- (anime • Armored Core • awesome • cool • cosplay • cosplayers • crazy • Ghost in the Shell • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid • robots • tachikoma • video)
Voice of Metal Gear Solid’s Solid Snake/Big Boss completes Tokyo coronavirus vaccination mission
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Casey Baseel
Jul 31, 2021
- Japan
- (Akio Otsuka • anime • COK • coronavirus • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid • video games • voice actors)
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
- (awesome • cool • escape games • Hideo Kojima • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Real Infiltration Game • shinjuku • SNO • Tokyo • Tokyo Mystery Circus • 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)
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)
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.
- USA
- (body pillows • funny • Hideo Kojima • huggy pillows • Metal Gear • video games • weird)
- 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
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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】
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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)
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)
Korean criminals take a page from Metal Gear with cardboard box burglaries 【Video】
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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】
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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 cardboard box wedding ad full of crazy, bittersweet belly laughs, just like the games
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Casey Baseel
Aug 29, 2015
For months, there have been rumblings of discord between video game publisher Konami and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain director Hideo Kojima. First Kojima’s name, one of the most respected in the industry, was scrubbed from the game’s packaging, and now the popular opinion seems to be that once The Phantom Pain is a completely done deal, Kojima will pack up and leave the company where he’s worked for decades, meaning someone else would be tasked with carrying on the legacy of Metal Gear, a franchise so ground-breaking and successful it literally changed the industry.
But none of this drama seems to have adversely affected The Phantom Pain’s development, as advance reviews of the title have been glowing. And perhaps even more baffling is that even as this might be the end of an era, the series has in no way lost its sense of humor, as seen in this bizarre yet emotional Metal Gear Solid V TV commercial starring an about-to-be-wed bride and groom, dressed in their finest Metal Gear-style cardboard boxes.
- Japan
- (ads • crazy • funny • Hideo Kojima • Metal Gear • Metal Gear Solid V • video gaems • weird)
Metal Gear movie finds scriptwriter, presumably prepared to write dialogue including “Snaaake!!!”
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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
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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.
- Global, Internet, Japan
- (Hideo Kojima • Konami • Metal Gear • video games)
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