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MoCap Sports makes another public appearance with more features
Original at Arcade Heroes
• Mon, Jun 22
By Shaggy Konami’s return to the motion capture arena is back in Japanese arcades again, testing out the concept to see how players take to it in a post-Wii Sports world. Last time we saw Mocap Sports it only featured a baseball game but this time they have added boxing and tennis to what it can do [...]
Report: Female Employee Sues Konami For Discrimination
Original at GamasutraNews (Feedburner)
• Thu, Jun 18
A female Konami employee sued the Metal Gear publisher for discrimination, after an alleged demotion and pay cut following maternity leave, according to a new report on web log Kotaku (original Japanese piece available on MSN). Yoko Sekiguchi, 36, claims that she went on maternity leav...
E3 2009: IGN Daily Fix, 6-3: Konami News & Halo
Original at it.truveo.com
• Tue, Jun 16
Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania, a new Halo, Final Fantasy news and more! it.truveo.com
Want Konami's PS3-Exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4 for $30?
Original at PC World
• Tue, Jun 16
Lop half off the original $60 price tag of Konami's PS3-Exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and you've got its newer, friendlier "Greatest Hits" sales pitch. That's right, $30 now gets you my pick for best PS3 game of 2008, ... Konami to shoot new Metal Gear news all week Punch Jump
Konami: Expect Metal Gear Announcements This Week
Original at PSX Extreme
• Mon, Jun 15
Last week, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots turned one year old, and not coincidentally, Konami has revealed that some related announcements are coming our way. According to Kotaku, Konami plans to reveal multiple announcements this week, ...
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker E3 2009 Screens and Trailer
Original at Gamers Hell
• Wed, Jun 10
UK Konami released new screens and a trailer from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, a new game for the PSP, designed as a full sequel to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Developed by Hideo Kojima, the game picks up where Metal Gear Solid 3 left off, ...
Konami working on Metal Gear Solid: Rising
Original at HD
• Tue, Jun 9
Metal Gear Solid: Rising Confirmed for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC Video Game Generation E3 2009: Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker Trailer (Video) Fatman Games Metal Gear Solid Heads to PSN; MGS4 Joins PS3 Greatest Hits Video Game Generation
Konami Announces New "DDR" Titles at E3
Original at KXTV
• Fri, Jun 5
CA Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. on Wednesday announced four brand new games across multiple platforms for its popular Dance Dance Revolution franchise. The classic get-up-and-move title that more-or-less kick-started the music gaming genre will make ...
Will Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 be good enough to save a dying series?
Original at Who Ate All The Pies
• Fri, Jun 5
UK Hopefully someone at Konami will crack this code in time for PES 2011. What do we know about the new version of Pro Evo, set to launch this autumn? Well, according to Konami it boasts "the most exhaustive raft of new features in the series' history". ...
E3: Konami's Briefing Reveals New Castlevania, MGS Arcade
Original at Gamasutra
• Wed, Jun 3
E3: Konami's Briefing Reveals New Castlevania, MGS Arcade CA E3 - The Konami Presentation: New Castlevania! Newsarama E309: Castlevania, MGS, More At Konami Game Informer Kojima Keeps Coins-Ops Alive With 'Metal Gear Arcade' MTV.com Examiner.com - IGN
New FIFA And PES Games Built On Fan Feedback
Original at Next Generation
• Wed, Jun 3
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.
Metal Gear Solid: Rising announced
Original at bit-tech.net
• Tue, Jun 2
UK Metal Gear Solid: Rising has been confirmed as a multi-platform title for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Konami's Hideo Kojima took to the stage yesterday as part of Microsoft's conference at E3 2009 and revealed a new Metal Gear Solid title was on ...
Discuss: What effect could Microsoft’s Project Natal have on arcades?
Original at Arcade Heroes
• Mon, Jun 1
By Shaggy The reason I bring this up is because we have seen Japanese arcade companies blame the Nintendo Wii for suffering sales in arcades there and I have heard the same thing before here in the US. I have also heard that services like Playstation Network/WiiWare/Xbox Live Arcade also hurt us too b...
Pre-E3 2009: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Hands-on
Original at IGN
• Fri, May 29
CA If you're one of the many series fans who've bemoaned the fact that Konami's first franchise foray on Wii isn't a totally new adventure, then you're in for a shock. Shattered Memories might be inspired by events of the original Silent Hill game - both ... First Silent Hill Wii Footage Cubed3
Review: Looking for gems in iphone's game library
Original at TheV247.com
• Tue, May 19
TX Metal Gear Solid Touch'' (Konami, $7.99): Konami turns its epic espionage saga into a drab shooting gallery. A blatant case of trying to squeeze a high-profile franchise onto the wrong platform. One star.
Kojima’s Teaser Site Goes Live
Original at eXophase.com, the Gamer's Phase
• Thu, May 14
By x3sphere As foretold, Konami today launched a teaser site for the next Kojima Productions title. Depicted on the site is an engaging flash animation that shows a desolate field with dark brooding clouds looming overhead. Not a whole lot to go on, as is the case with most of Kojima’s ever-cryptic teas...
Move over Wii Sports - here comes Mocap Sports
Original at Arcade Heroes
• Wed, May 6
By Shaggy While it might seem that Konami is a little late to the motion controller party, you also might recall that Konami pioneered the motion controller prior to the release of the Nintendo Wii (which has since taken credit for pioneering motion sensing in the minds of many people, which of co...
Konami Announces Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for the Wii, PS2, and PSP
Original at Ripten Video Game
• Mon, Apr 6
By Demi Adejuyigbe Konami Announces Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for Wii™, PlayStation®2 System and PSP® System Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is scheduled to launch this fall for the Wii™ video game system from Nintendo, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, and PSP® (PlayStation®Por...
iPhone/iPod Touch Review: Metal Gear Solid Touch
Original at Ripten Video Game
• Sun, Mar 29
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...
Silent Hill: Homecoming patched
Original at Virgin.net
• Thu, Mar 5
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 Release Sillent Hill PC Patch
Original at Video Game Media
• Wed, Mar 4
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 ...
Silent Hill: Homecoming Patch Released
Original at Gamers Hell
• Wed, Mar 4
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 ...
Patch: Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 Update
Original at Kezins
• Tue, Feb 10
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
Salamander (FC) ReviewOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Feb 1
By rss@youtube.com (Bibleteen) This time, I review Salamander, one of the best shooting games from Konami. Author: Bibleteen Keywords: salamander fc nintendo famicom family computer review Added: February 1, 2009
Opinion: Apple to add pro-games to App Store?
Original at Gadgetrepublic
• Thu, Jan 29
NewsOXY Ireland - Japanese games developer Konami has even launched a site just for iPhone and iPod touch titles that include Silent Hill and DanceDance Revolution. ... Apple iPhone Konami mobile games available at App Store Phones Review all 290 news articles
Patch: Konami Welcomes Rookies To Metal Gear Online
Original at IncGamers.com
• Tue, Jan 13
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
Opinion: Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence
Original at expotv.com
• Sat, Jan 10
This is a video review of Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence. Konami re-releases one of the very best PS2 games ever in one marvelous package ... www.expotv.com
GameTrailers - Rock Revolution Review HDOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, Jan 8
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...
Top 100 - #56 Konami’s MGS4 Review Embargo
Original at Sarcastic Gamer
• Mon, Dec 22
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...
Suikoden: Tierkreis - The Communal DS RPG
Original at Kotaku
• Wed, Nov 26
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
Patch: PS3 Firmware and Metal Gear Online updated
Original at HEXUS.gaming
• Tue, Nov 25
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
Rock Revolution - Review
Original at Planet Xbox 360
• Thu, Nov 20
Months ago, Konami made sure the gaming world knew that they were the first company to develop the plastic-instrument music genre. Sadly, Rock Revolution only reminds everyone that being the first does not exactly make you the best. Konami's ahead-of-their time arcade music games, like...
Castlevania Order of Ecclesia DS Review
Original at dBTechno
• Tue, Nov 4
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...
Patch: Thursday Reading - StarCraft II Beta in 2009
Original at Gameguru Mania
• Thu, Oct 23
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...
Opinion: Fable II designer asks for special considerations
Original at Columbia Daily Tribune
• Wed, Oct 8
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...
Gaming News & Rumors Around The Web (9/26/08)Original at Gaming Bits
• Fri, Sep 26
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
2K Sports and Konami Announce MLB® Power Pros 2008 Now Available on Retail Store Shelves
Original at TechWhack
• Tue, Jul 29
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...
Konami confirms Castlevania Judgement for Wii
Original at Geek.com
• Wed, Jul 2
By Gavin Robinson It may not be what you were hoping for when you heard the two words, “Castlevania” and “Wii” in the same sentence, but it might just still be fun. Castlevania Judgement will be the first Castlevania game for the Nintendo console, and it’s unlike any Castlevania you’ve ever played. Why? It’s a...
Kotaku Originals: A Mighty Tr**kload of Copy
Original at Kotaku
• Sat, May 3
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
Opinion: Metal Gear Solid 4
Original at 1up.com
• Wed, Apr 2
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,...
Catching Up With The Ol' Japan Wii
Original at Wired News
• Wed, Jan 9
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
The BudgetBin Review: Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Original at Qj.net
• Mon, Jul 30
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...
Gaming Publishers and Developers at San Diego's Comic-Con International Event
Original at Gaming Bits
• Sun, Jul 22
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...
Sony PSP Review: Brooktown High
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, Jul 8
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...
Opinion: Game play, design save this rather bland offering
Original at ParamusPost.com
• Tue, May 22
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...
Nintendo DS Review: Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits
Original at Blogcritics
• Mon, May 14
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...
Opinion: 'Pro Evolution Soccer' lacks kick in new console
Original at ParamusPost.com
• Tue, Mar 20
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.
Xbox Live Arcade Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade
Original at Blogcritics
• Sat, Mar 17
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...
EL33TONLINE Podcast Episode 11
Original at EL33TONLINE
• Wed, Feb 7
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!
Silent Hill PSP and Others Make Konami's 06 List
Original at Kotaku
• Wed, Jan 25
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...