

The mistreated Hideo Kojima has finally been released from his bonds as his contract with the dastardly Konami has at last ended, allowing the revered developer to reopen Kojima Productions, acquiring a helping hand from Sony to produce his next ground-breaking title in the process.
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Hideo Kojima, the revered creator of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, has been banned from this year’s Game Awards due to the details of his contract with Konami; a rather cruel turn of events that all but confirms Kojima’s departure from the relentless company.
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The game franchises most deserving of an anime adaptation have been ranked by gamers, with Disney and Square Enix alike both staring an opportunity in the face it would seem.
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Sony’s PS4 trailer showcased at the ongoing Taipei Game Show has stealthily inserted a rather puzzling “teaser” for what the masses have been speculating to be the sequel to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance – sure to excite fans of the prequel if not those of the main series.
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None other than MGS-producer Hideo Kojima himself has been complaining about the mainstream media’s fixation on social gaming at the expense of the next generation, calling it “dangerous” and hinting about the real reason he has to put SNS features in the latest MGS titles…
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GDC 2013 sees Kojima and company announcing the next full title in the Metal Gear series – Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, for PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Metal Gear Solid is the latest franchise to be given over to Hollywood’s tender mercies, with fans of the series left wondering whether the movie will follow in the glorious footsteps of Hollywood’s past video game adaptations, or the even more esteemed path of its many adaptations of popular Japanese entertainment franchises.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Dec 30, 2011 15:38 JST
- Tags: Eroge, Famitsu, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, PS2, PSP, Rankings, RPG, Square Enix

Top gaming rag Famitsu has quizzed its readers as to what games they find themselves dhedding the most tears over, unsurprisingly finding them to be a soppy bunch reduced to tears by the latest overwrought Final Fantasy yarn…
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Solid Snake fans are lamenting the yawning gulf between the highly promising preview images of Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D(S) and the actual gameplay images.
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Japanese asked to rate their most loved game characters unsurprisingly deliver the top spot to an old favourite – but a beautiful virtual diva seems well on the way to unseating even this gaming titan.
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One of the writers with Kojima Productions has written a politely scathing piece in which he decries the JRPG’s single-minded obsession with having overwrought teenage boys as their protagonists, suggesting that is tied to a wider lack of heroic adult male archetypes in contemporary Japanese culture.
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Dengeki readers provide a ranking of the top 10 game characters they feel would make good friend material.
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