The cumulative sales of the Metal Gear series have now topped 58 million copies. The confirmation comes via franchise owner Konami, which recently celebrated the fan-favorite series’ achievements in a new financial report (opens in new tab) on the company’s corporate website. From Metal Gear’s launch way back in 1987 …
Read More »PUBG gets Metal Gear Solid 5 style Fulton extractions in latest update
The latest update (opens in new tab) to PUBG has added a Metal Gear Solid 5-style Fulton extraction system that lets you and your teammates redeploy to somewhere else on the map. It’s fair to say that the Fulton extraction system was one of Metal Gear Solid 5’s most popular …
Read More »The domestic drama of the mid-life crisis simulator is an exciting sign that games might (really this time) be growing up
The issue of maturity has long been a bugbear when talking about games. Whether the perceived problem has been a gung-ho action focus, poor representation of gender, flimsy storylines, or the conduct of the industry itself, the idea of games exhibiting as the truly mature medium they’ve long professed to …
Read More »Oh my god, this Phantom Pain cosplay has actual damn wolves in it
There’s an art to good cosplay. Sure, you can just slap on an eyepatch and combat fatigues and start muttering to yourself about “Metal Gear,” or you can go all out, get every minute detail incorporated into your costume, and then carry a freaking wolf on your back. Guess which …
Read More »Multiplayer progression should be about rewards, not roadblocks
The Star Wars Battlefront beta just wrapped up a few days ago, and fans of a galaxy far, far away finally got a chance to check out the latest version of a modern multiplayer classic. For the most part, it was a genuinely fun, arcadey approach to shooters filled with …
Read More »Metal Gear Online service has been sub-par, so Konami is doling out in-game cash
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab)’s single-player is almost universally praised. Its new multiplayer mode, which is often laggy when it isn’t outright disconnecting players, is not. Konami is addressing Metal Gear Online’s troubled launch with an apology and free in-game boosts, which any player …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain review
72 seconds. At first, it feels like a mistake. There’s no reason why it takes so long to drive between Mother Base platforms. Or why a game defined by its freedom is forcing you to travel in a straight line. There’s no scenery, no incoming calls, no priorities to juggle… …
Read More »Strange things happen when you swap Ocelot for Quiet and D-dog in MGS 5
Don’t worry. There are no spoilers here. Just the weirdly wonderfully result of what happens if you swap Ocelot in for some of Quiet’s key scenes in MGS 5 (opens in new tab). The effect is oddly hypnotic, look: It’s not clear where this is from beyond simply Reddit (opens …
Read More »This is what its like to actually be recovered by MGS 5s Fulton balloon
If you’re playing MGS 5 (opens in new tab) then you’ve been harvesting sheep and soldiers alike using the game’s Fulton Recovery System – a balloon that lifts things skyward to be recovered by plane. Just in case you didn’t know, it’s a real thing that the CIA actually used …
Read More »We answer all your MGS 5 questions in this (spoiler free) video
You’ve probably read our MGS 5 review (opens in new tab) by now, and may have questions. As our reviewer Dan Dawkins has pointed out, the game’s massive and trying to condense it into one all encompassing appraisal is damn near impossible. There are hundreds of hours of gameplay, numerous …
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