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P.T. is being rebuilt for PC from its own PS4 code
LoreanXavier's native Windows port is neither emulator nor remake. Museum conservators have a word for the difference, and it matters for a game Konami erased.
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Metal Gear Solid V’s nuclear disarmament event begins
Nuclear deterrence has long been a subject of Metal Gear Solid games: the idea that if all sides of a conflict have weapons of mass destruction, then nobody will use them. But is that really peace? That’s what a special mission in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain hopes to address. A cutscene ass
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The tortured existence of the town that supposedly inspired Silent Hill
A new victim of the Silent Hill mythology has been uncovered, and it is neither in the form of a new game or a new movie (thankfully, for the latter at least). A recent addition to The Campo Santo Quarterly Review, a journal curated by the ombudsman of the small yet star-studded game studio of forme
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The troubling professionalism of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Kojima decides to grow up.
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Skullgirls gets heart ripped out by Konami, continues beleaguered existence
Game development doesn’t have enough drama to make a good TV show, normally. But, if you forced me to make a show for TNT (oh alright, if you insist), I would pull inspiration from the fighting game Skullgirls developer: Lab Zero. Just this last week their publisher Konami, without telling Lab Zero,
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Will playing handheld games ever translate well to the big screen?
Back in the halcyon days of 1991, a game you played on your television was very, very different than the one you played in your hand. The dominant portable platform, Nintendo’s Game Boy, showed green-scale images that blurred when they moved. Their NES counterparts were relatively crisp, bright, and
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