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According to a financial statement the company is attributing the collapse to a quiet release period, with its major titles launching in the second half of its fiscal year - as well as unfavourable comparisons to last year's Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots release.

The stock closed today at JPY 2625 (USD 29.09) on the Tokyo exchange on a mixed day for Japanese videogame numbers - both SEGA and Konami were down 2.4 per cent and 1.9 per cent respectively on the day, while Nintendo and Square Enix were up 0.9 per cent and 4.6 per cent in turn.

By Play Station News more -> PS3 - PS3 Platform Of Choice For PES 2010 Players Previously, Xbox 360 alloted for a majority of the multiplatform sales in the market. But with the release of the latest Pro Evolution Soccer from Konami, the PS3 emerged as the clear platform of choice for gamers. Sales for... more -&g...

By Shaggy Next, Capcom is teaming up with Namco on the next arcade release of Taiko No Tatsujin in Japan. This is a bemani game that features a set of taiko’s (or Japanese drums) for players to thump on(as pictured). One thing that Capcom is bringing to this release will be the inclusion of Monster Hunte...

By Play Station News more -> PSP - Shadow Of Destiny Going Portable Konami Digital Entertainment is all about reliving old titles onto the modern consoles recently, as they have promised to deliver the PS2 classic Shadow of Destiny to the PSP. This title will then offer handheld gamers... more -> PSP - Shad...

By Tom Ivan Konami shipped three million copies of PES 2010 to retail ahead the football title’s release today on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. “Retail backing for the game is extremely strong, with Konami predicting the game will become a million-selling title at launch,” the company said in a statement.

Konami is shipping over three million units of football title Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 for release across Europe today. The game is available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, with the publisher confident "the game will become a million-selling title at launch".

The annual battle for football videogame superiority between Konami and Electronic Arts feels like it's been going on for as long as consoles have been around themselves. In fact, that's pretty much the case, for all intents and purposes, given that the first FIFA title to hit the shelves...

By Play Station News more -> PSP - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Delayed To 2010? Although Konami has yet to issue an official statement, there has been a lot of rumors going around the gaming community about th possibility of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories facing a delay. This suspicion began after... mo...

By Shaggy Established in Osaka, Japan in 1969 by Kagemasa Kozuki, Konami is one of the video game industry’s biggest success stories. Konami continues to be recognised as a leader in innovative and entertaining games, and is always looking to the future. Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. is located...

By zerozombie We recently got the chance to check out the new Konami game, ‘Zombie Apocalypse.’ First and foremost, I must warn you before you read this review that I personally love zombies. Yes, zombie movies, zombie art, zombie books, zombie poetry and last, zombie video games. So, with that being said...

Among the 12 companies named by Microsoft are Activision Blizzard, Capcom, Konami and Sega. Together, said Microsoft, these companies account for more than 70 per cent of third-party software sales for this generation of consoles, and for most of the world's most recognised game franc...

By Shaggy Konami retrospective It has been a few weeks since I last had the chance to create a podcast but last Wednesday, Kevin Williams and I were able to sit down and talk about what has been going on in the arcade world for the past couple of weeks. Some of the topics we cover: -Flynn’s Arcade and the [...]

By Shaggy The event was visited by Naoki Maeda of BEMANI Productions, the music game department of Konami, who is credited for a vast amount of the music on DDR X and other BEMANI music games. Mr Maeda enjoys celebrity status amongst the BEMANI fans. He judged one of the many tournaments at the event, si...

By Tom Ivan The football season may have drawn to a close, but EA and Konami, the companies behind football’s two biggest gaming properties, FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) respectively, are already hard at work preparing for the resumption of competition later this year.

 VA Metal Gear Solid ($7.99) - Konami delivered their "full" version update to the game which adds 8 missions to the original release. The update is available for free through itunes. Aside from the new levels the game also adds some enhancements to the ...

by Levi Buchanan April 23, 2009 - Have you already played through the advance version of Metal Gear Solid Touch? Well, the back half of the game is finally available today. Konami announced this afternoon that the full version of MGST is on sale at the ...

April 23, 2009 - Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. announced today that the full version of METAL GEAR SOLID TOUCH has launched on the Apple App Store. Set in the immersive world of METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS and created with the concept ... Metal Gear Solid Touch Now Complete IGN

By Demi Adejuyigbe I knew they’d worked hard on it, because they mentioned how Kojima actually scrapped the entire game and started from scratch halfway into development. Konami said it wouldn’t be a lot like the console games, and I didn’t expect it to, but with such a great legacy, how would Metal Gear Solid...

 UK Konami has released a patch for the PC-DVD version of its Silent Hill Homecoming. The download resolves an issue related to the changing of graphic resolutions, and is automatically applied when the game is installed for the first time. ...

Konami Digital Entertainment has released a patch for the PC-DVD version of its Silent Hill Homecoming. The download resolves an issue related to the changing of graphic resolutions, and is automatically applied when the game is installed for the first ...

 UK Konami has announced that a patch for the PC version of Silent Hill: Homecoming is now available. The update fixes a bug which affects the stability of the game when changing the screen resolution and is automatically applied when you install the game ...

Konami announced a new free patch coming at the end February for all Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 owners. The patch will bring the player database up to the most current changes in the soccer (or football) world. All player rosters will be updated as well ... Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 PS3Center.net

Those who haven't played Metal Gear Online can download a free version of the game available now until 29 January. Konami has also released a free Metal ... New Metal Gear Online Campaign Announced Gamespy.com Metal Gear Online “Welcome Rookie” campaign EL33TONLINE

By rss@youtube.com (CoolVids1337) Konami is playing catch-up with Rock Revolution, but has the tour bus already left the station? (If you want to see it in HD press "Watch in HD".) The game is for; DS PS3 Xbox 360 Wii Keywords: Rock Revolution Guitar Hero Rockband Konami Gametrailers review HD nintedo sony microsoft DS wii pl...

By Yamster Anyway, on to Konami. When it came to the release of Metal Gear Solid 4 in June this year, they wanted a lot of things kept quiet before it hit the shelves. A lot of insignificant things, when all was said and done, and their fussing over these trivial pieces of information boggled more than one v...

By Mike Fahey Konami has unleashed a flurry of new art, screens, and information on Suikoden: Tierkrieis, the game that takes the hunt for the 108 Stars of Destiny to the Nintendo DS. Publisher: Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. Platform: Nintendo DS Genre: RPG

Metal Gear Online Konami has released a new patch for Metal Gear Online, updating the game to v.1.20. In addition to including new characters and modes for the MEME expansion, the patch also adds new skills, rules, and options to the original game as well. Check out t...

 UK - On a similar note, Konami has also updated Metal Gear Online today with a few added extras including stealth deathmatches, a new No Headshot rule and an ... Metal Gear Online gets hefty update Eurogamer all 2 news articles

Do you have a product that you would like featured on dBTechno? If so, drop us a line at vicb@dbtechno.com Rock Revolution PS3 Review Developer: Zoe Mode Publisher: Konami Konami in the past was the king of the music genre. Before we had Guitar Hero and Rock Band, we got our fix of music games fr...

Do you have a product that you would like featured on dBTechno? If so, drop us a line at vicb@dbtechno.com Castlevania Order of Ecclesia DS Review Publisher: Konami Developer: Konami Players: 1-2 To this point, Castlevania has managed to be a very successful series on the Nintendo DS, and...

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 Patch v1.10 - Konami Digital Entertainment has released the first patch for PES 2009, bringing the PC version of this popular soccer game to v1.10. The patch addresses a problem that caused the game to become unstable when using high screen resolutions The Sims 2 Ap...

By Justin Haywald If Rock Revolution had released before the first Rock Band, I might've been content. It's a natural extension of GuitarFreaks and DrumMania (a pair of Konami arcade rhythm games that let you play along with J-pop tunes on guitar and drums, respectively), and it offers you the chance to roc...

Many people in the industry thought it was a bit out-of-place when Konami tried to embargo certain elements of Metal Gear Solid 4 in reviews, and now it seems Fable II's Peter Molyneux is asking for special treatment as well. Variety is reporting that a special letter was included with revi...

Microsoft - Xbox 360 Nintendo - Wii, DS Konami has just released gameplay trailers of its upcoming Castlevania DS and Wii games: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) and Castlevania Judgment (Wii). Source: Konami PlayStation - PS3, PSP Source: PlayStation Blog

By Satan Konami is a leading developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties. Konami’s titles include the popular franchises Metal Gear Solid®, Silent Hill®, Dance Dance Revolution® and Castlevania®, among other top sellers. The latest information about Kona...

By Mike Fahey Originally debuting in arcades in 1998, DanceDanceRevolution has been available on most consoles including Xbox® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, and Wii™. Revolutionizing the get-up-and move concept for video ga...

By ogood Japan Gets *Another* Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Bundle Advocacy Groups Want Games Locked Up How To Bring The West to Japan Buy GTA IV, Get Xbox Live Free For A Month Konami Adds Stuff To Metal Gear Online Where Bionic Commando And Nintendo Stand The Inaugural All-Time Video Game Character Draft

By Shane Bettenhausen SCREENS: Don't even bother trying to take this chopper down early on...Snake simply doesn't have the right weapons. Click the image above to check out all Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots screens. SCREENS: Whether or not you choose to help the local militia is up to you...but without Snake,...

By Chris Kohler Famicom, 500 points Yie Ar Kung Fu (Konami)* Hudson's Adventure Island (Hudson) Devil World (Nintendo) Mappy (Bandai Namco) Super Famicom, 800 points Nintendo 64, 1000 points 1080 Snowboarding (Nintendo) PC Engine, 600 points PC Engine CD, 800 points

By Glen D. Konami has given the Sony PlayStation Portable crowd a taste of its flagship Metal Gear games with the Metal Gear Acid series. The Acid games took a break from the tactical espionage action template that has made the series famous and placed Solid Snake in a turn-based game with cards front...

While we're still trying to digest all the gaming news and media from last week's E3 Media & Business Summit, gaming publishers and developers will be out once again at this year's Comic-Con event in San Diego, taking place next week. Here's our list of video game related publishers an...

By Nicolo S. Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party for the Wii is sure to dominate the dance floor, along with Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2 for the PS2 which will revitalize the arcade hit that made players get off their comfortable couch to do some dancing and break some sweat. Featuring crowd f...

By Kate C. Harding No matter how you choose to play, you end up doing many of the same things over and over again and after thirty minutes it is exceedingly monotonous. You can only practice kissing in your bedroom so many times before you are ready to write off any romantic interludes all together. And in the min...

Publisher: Konami Cooking Mama" on the Nintendo DS received much fanfare for its interesting use of the touch screen to create virtual cuisine. Sure, it's bereft of a story line, or any type of satisfying progression for that matter, but for $20, it's a great on-the-go game. Now a version of...

By Blake Matthews So check out what Konami has to offer: Contra (woo hoo!); Gradius, Time Pilot, Scramble, Horror Maze, Pooyan, Roc’N Rope, Track & Field, Circus Charlie, Basketball, Road Fighter, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Rainbow Bell, and Shao-lin’s Road. And then I saw it, one of my all-time favorite arcade g...

Publisher: Konami Ask your average gamer what soccer games come to mind first, and the answer will inevitably be one of EA's "Fifa" series. However, hard-core soccer enthusiasts tend to be drawn to the realistic game play found in Konami's "Winning Eleven" series.

By Matt Paprocki If you were a kid back in the early 90's and walked into an arcade, one thing was assured: Konami had you covered. You were likely surrounded by ridiculously loud G.I. Joe cabinets, The Simpsons were spouting off trademark witty humor in another, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles machine w...

By podcast@el33tonline.com (El33tonline) The DS Lite competition winner is revealed! Also find out about the EL33TONLINE Podcast exclusive competition. We then go on to discuss all the games that were announced at last week's Konami Gamers Day. Once again it's an entertaining and crazy show!

By Brian Crecente The hottest revolution and bestselling video game in the music game category returns to its arcade roots with Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA. The first arcade version to be released in North America in 6 years, Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA features over 300 songs, all-new game mo...