“There was also no real story”: Hideo Kojima Revolutionized Storytelling in Games With Metal Gear Solid “because everyone was against it” Hideo Kojima's rebellious journey from library outcast to gaming visionary shows what happens when you refuse to play by the rules. 12/21/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Hideo Kojima was told "games don't need stories" early in his career, so he read 300 books while making a single game to prove them wrong Hideo Kojima has opened up about what it was like being an early progenitor of story-focused video games, revealing he once read around 300 books researching story details for a single game. 12/20/2024 - 7:14 am | View Link
Hideo Kojima originally had "no plans" for a character like Metal Gear Solid's Cyborg Ninja until Yoji Shinkawa's art had him saying "hell yeah, a ninja cyborg!" Metal Gear Solid's Cyborg Ninja is one of the 1998 game's most memorable characters, backflipping all over protagonist Snake with his chiseled exoskeleton and hissing haunting musings about life. But ... 12/19/2024 - 7:18 am | View Link
Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid lead Hideo Kojima once said "everything I make ends up feeling somewhat like a movie" because he'd "grown up with them" From Death Stranding to Metal Gear, Kojima is no stranger to smash-hit game successes. If you've played any of his titles and have felt almost as though they carry a touch of cine ... 12/18/2024 - 2:18 am | View Link
Hideo Kojima Interview Reveals He Almost Left Konami Because of Metal Gear An old interview with Hideo Kojima has been uncovered again, revealing that Kojima was keen on leaving Konami over Metal Gear. 12/18/2024 - 1:54 am | View Link
Hideo Kojima will attend and present at The Game Awards Whatever this year's runtime is, you may as well subtract the 15-20 minutes that the super special Kojima feature will take up Not that I'm not looking forward to it, but if they do that 'please wrap it up' shit again this year while giving Kojima his own full-on segment, then Imma tune out from this thing for good and catch the trailers and ... 12/6/2024 - 1:38 pm | View Website
I've Decided Kojima Is The Most Overrated Popular Game ... Kojima was at his best when he had limits to what he was allowed to do. He's been a shadow of his former creative self in recent years who seems more obsessed with Hollywood and Hollywood actors than ever, and I don't think cramming as many names into his games as he possibly can makes them better games. 12/1/2024 - 7:10 am | View Website
Kojima and the Real Metal Gear Solid | Good Blood (Video ... The video is essentially delving into how the Metal Gear series is about Kojima's troubled childhood and traumas. Citing Kojima himself, Javed references the book titled "Metal Gear Solid: Naked" where Kojima talks about how MGS was really about the impact of his father's death on his storytelling, and how he had gotten "darker" because of it. 11/19/2024 - 10:30 am | View Website
What do you think when you look back at the Konami vs. Kojima debacle ... Kojima overspending money or not bringing David Hayter back for shallow reasons or whatever doesn't make a corporation abusing its employees okay. My take is that Konami had been a shit corporation that abused and didn't appreciate its creators for a while, but Kojima was big enough that it finally became visible for everyone to see. 11/11/2024 - 8:52 am | View Website
[Automation-media] Death Stranding IP will be owned by ... Though I guess it wouldn't be too shocking he has a similar deal as with DS (though probably just Sony publishings vs multiple), especially given what Kojima went through with Konami and the whole "Kojima Kojima Kojima" aspect pretty hard tying his I.P to him regardless, that if he isn't involved people won't care as much. 11/7/2024 - 8:28 am | View Website
“It Ends with Us” author Colleen Hoover has expressed support for Blake Lively amid her sexual harassment allegations against Justin Baldoni. Lively, who starred in this year’s feature adaptation of Hoover’s novel with co-star and director Baldoni, filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against him Friday night. Hoover took to her Instagram Stories Saturday […]
The title of SZA’s long-awaited “SOS Deluxe: Lana” seems designed to manage expectations: Despite her comments earlier this year that the much-delayed project would be a collection of new material, she seems to have reverted to her original plan of making it “outtakes from ‘SOS’ and a couple of new songs,” as she described it […]
Hozier was the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live’s” Christmas edition Saturday night, and for his second song, the Irish artist paid tribute to the Pogues’ classic “Fairytale of New York.” On social media, viewers praised Hozier’s emotional cover of the song that has become a Christmas standard since it was released in 1987, finding […]
To make Paramount and Hasbro’s first fully CG-animated Transformers movie, Academy Award-winning director Josh Cooley (“Toy Story 4”) turned to Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects studio behind the franchise’s live-action movies. The first challenge to making “Transformers One” was defining the overall look, which in this case involved a design philosophy that was […]
“Mufasa” has reigned supreme at the global box office, but the “Lion King” prequel is lacking the bite of Disney’s prior live-action adaptations. The movie, a prequel to director Jon Favreau’s 2019 photorealistic “The Lion King” remake, powered to $87.2 million overseas and $122 million globally. While those ticket sales were enough to top the […]
“Sonic the Hedgehog 3” has powered to the top of box office charts while “Mufasa: The Lion King” is getting trampled in its first weekend of release. Paramount’s third “Sonic” adventure has opened at No. 1 with $62 million from 3,761 North American theaters. Bolstered by positive reviews and strong audience scores, the film beat […]