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Getting Trapped in Metal Gear Solid V’s War Economy
Debt, industrialism, and the systems of modern war.
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Videogames and ’80s Hollywood Masculinity: A Love Story
Videogames are stuck in the era of Rambo.
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Metal Gear Online glitches result in a beautiful papery garden
As an escape from its arid deserts and flustered robot politics, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain offers Mother Base—an offshore plant near the Seychelles, a place to chill out between missions, where you can overlook the surrounding view of the ocean blue. Even so, it is still made of refined s
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The legacy of Metal Gear’s virtual worlds
The upcoming Volume pays tribute to Hideo Kojima’s essential “training” missions.
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The strange body politics of Hideo Kojima
Metal Gear Solid proves there’s nothing more dangerous than a weaponized body.
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Digging into the Southeast Asian bootleg videogame cutscene economy
They made a Metal Gear Solid movie?
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Valve/HTC’s Vive is the "Narnia closet stuck to your face"
Walking around in virtual reality.
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Off-Peak splits the difference between a videogame and a mood board
Where Coltrane and Rinse Dream collide.
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Play Along: The Essay and the Game
What videogames can learn from nonfiction, and vice versa.
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Apparently Nicolas Winding Refn, Guillermo Del Toro and Chan-wook Park really love MGS
Over on the Metal Gear Solid 5 product page, a trio of acclaimed film directors are fawning all over Hideo Kojima. Guillermo del Toro (Pacific Rim, Pan’s Labyrinth), Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives), and Chan-wook Park (Oldboy) are heaping Homeric levels of praise on the Metal Gear cr
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‘Metal Gear Solid 5’ to be funny again after the ultra-grim ‘Ground Zeroes,’ Kojima says
If you were concerned after playing the bleak, grizzled Ground Zeroes prequel that Metal Gear had lost all its quirky weirdness, you had good reason. Our writer Filipe Salgado did an admirable job broaching the issue in his review. But don’t be. According to a recent interview with creator Hideo Ko
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The fast life and times of a monster in Evolve
No rest (or love) for the wicked.