Assassin games have rose to prominence in the most recent generation of video games. It has become a popular trend for developers to produce games featuring assassin protagonists. The assassin games trend can see its roots in the stealth genre, which really took off in 1998 with Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation and Thief: [...]
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Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection Announced
Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection will release sometime this June exclusively for PlayStation 3, Konami announced. In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Metal Gear franchise, Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection will include Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD [...]
Arguing with Myself: Multiplayer in Every Game
In celebration of April Fools’ Day, writer and contributor Ethan Smith decided to engage with himself in a conversation about something that had been on his mind since a certain EA announcement several months ago, an issue brought up again by their recent statements about microtransactions. This exercise in cognitive dissonance seeks to answer the [...]
The Phantom Pain (But Really Metal Gear Solid 5, Maybe) Preview
The Phantom Pain was announced at the 2012 Spike’s Video Game Awards. Not much is known about the game outside of the trailer and an official site for Moby Dick Studios (more on that later). At the 2012 VGAs while plenty of exciting trailers and announcements occurred, none was more puzzling or interesting than the [...]
PlayStation All-Stars’ Best and Worst Fighters
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale recently came out a few weeks ago on Nov. 20 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. SuperBot Entertainment, SCE Santa Monica Studios and BluePoint Games (Vita Version) developed the star studded PlayStation All-Stars while Sony published the game. Since gamers have had a good while to dig into the frenetic [...]
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Preview
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has a development story almost as perplexing as its subtitle. Originally, the game was supposed to be Metal Gear Solid 5 developed by a new Konami team without Hideo Kojima’s involvement. The game would have focused on the Boss and the Cobra Unit, but that was scrapped due to inexperience and [...]
Kungfusion: Asian Stereotyping in Videogames
Quick, name an Asian hero from a major videogame who isn’t a martial arts master. Pretty tough isn’t it? Why? Because there aren’t any. And why is that? Well that is a more difficult question to answer. The lack of Asian figures in popular culture today may be connected to a long history of anti-Asian [...]
Bond Games Suck and It’s Your Fault
In a time when everything is being rebooted, movies and games have been cashing in on safe bets and taking advantage of nostalgia and optimism. Unfortunately, iterations often fail to improve upon the past, either being unsuccessful at the delicate balancing act of old and new features or changing the games into something entirely different. [...]
What Makes the Metal Gear Solid Series So Good
There is no video game series quite like Metal Gear Solid. For the past quarter of a century we gamers have been privy to the lives of Naked Snake and his ilk as they save the world from all sorts of peril. My own story with the series begins in 2008 when my friend sold [...]
Metal Gear Solid Fans, Rejoice!
Metal Gear fans have it pretty sweet. Not only is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance due for a Q1 release next year, but Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes was announced and confirmed at PAX as the prologue to a future Metal Gear Solid 5. Can you say “winner?” Even more recently, Kojima Productions (somewhat infamous for [...]
