Tech

Metal Gear, Silent Hill, and Castlevania could return in 2022, allegedly

Enlarge (credit: Collage by Aurich Lawson) Konami is rumored to be bringing back some of its most classic—and long dormant—series, including Metal Gear and Silent Hill, with multiple new titles set to be revealed in 2022. The embattled Japanese publisher and developer has been largely inactive since pivoting to focus on mobile games in 2015. […]

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Death Stranding Director’s Cut review: More fun, just as divisive

Sam’s Odradek acts as a sensor for BTs. Death Stranding‘s release in 2019 was probably the most anticipated game of Hideo Kojima’s career. The Metal Gear director had arguably become the premiere auteur in video games. He had a reputation for convention-bucking design, meta-humor, and unapologetic cinematic influences. But this project was the first child […]

Sport

AEW All Out 2021 preview and predictions

It’s the first week of September, you know what that means! It’s time for AEW’s biggest show, All Out . Not only is it the biggest show they’ve ever run, or their most important, but it has a real chance to shift the wrestling world in a way we haven’t seen in a couple decades. […]

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How a Twitter hoax gave false hope for a Metal Gear Solid remaster

Enlarge / One of many artful scenes of everyday “Big Shell” life shared by @TheTomOlsen on Twitter. (credit: TheTomOlsen / Twitter) Weeks ago, a mysterious Twitter account popped up to tell the story of Tom Olsen, an unassuming maintenance technician at the fictional “Big Shell” facility that served as the main setting for Metal Gear Solid […]