Tag: metal gear solid

  • August: Violence [Fukubukuro 2010]

    It all started with Metal Gear Solid. Hideo Kojima is a pacifist. How do I know this having never spoken to him? It’s the only logical explanation behind Metal Gear Solid. Big whoop, I mean, the games themselves are about as overtly in support of pacifism and nuclear non-proliferation, but I’m not talking about the […]

  • Dara O’Briain Does Metal Gear Solid Comedy [ER/GO]

    The first bit of Metal Gear Solid standup I’ve ever seen by Dara O’Briain

  • Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part II: Journey to the East [II]

    I begin this entry sitting at the gate for my ANA flight…1 (No joke, my flight number is NH0001), listening to Japanese ska to get into the mood as I await my 1220 flight out of America. As per usual, I got here a good three hours before my flight even was ready to think […]

  • Game Overview: ABDN Reviews MGS4

    Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. (SPOILER NOTE: Tim’s review, my review, and some of this post have MGS spoilers. Read at your own risk) I’ve taken a few excerpts from Tim Rogers’ brilliant review of Metal Gear Solid 4 and […]

  • Sony: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Review

    It’s time for the moment many of you have been waiting for: my review of Hideo Kojima’s epic masterpiece: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. SPOILER ALERT: This review may contain story spoilers. Read at your own risk! Operating mostly on the basis of a promised beautiful, cinematic, amazing future of games, the […]

  • Embedded Reporter: Play!

    Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. Went and saw “Play! A Video Game Symphony” at the end of the last week and I have to say it was pretty cool. Some of the music didn’t do much for me :cough: Super Shinobi :cough:, but a lot of the […]

  • Game Overview: Pre-Current Gen PC All-Star Runner-Up

    Yeah, I know I told you that this would be posted last weekend, but things got a little hectic with my travel plans, so I decided to hold off until the day before the big finale for this one. I know you’re all on the edge of your seats waiting for the announcement, so let’s […]

  • Embedded Reporter: Metal Gear Retrospective

    Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. You may or may not realize that Metal Gear Solid 4 is a mere month away, but Gametrailers has and they’ve started one of their amazing Retrospective series last week about Metal Gear. Episodes one and two are up, so check them […]

  • Game Overview Special Tuesday Edition: Obsessive 100%

    If any of you clicked over to Leigh’s post at Sexy Videogameland about obsessively completing games, then you already know where I’m about to go with this post. If you didn’t, here’s yet another link. Call it a personality disorder, but I have an obsessive need to unlock the full 100% potential for video games […]

  • Sony: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

    SPOILER ALERT: This review may cover plot points that will spoil MGS2. The Story Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty picks up several years after the first MGS. Snake is still retired from FOXHOUND, but he is a part of the anti-Metal Gear proliferation group Philanthropy with Otacon. Snake and Otacon actively collect intel […]