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21-03-2025
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Konami Announced Its Own Death Stranding x GTA Game
has experienced something of a renaissance in the video game industry. Although they're remakes, games like Silent Hill 2 and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater have fans excited for games by the once-beloved publisher. It even seems unafraid to publish smaller titles, like the upcoming GTA and Death Stranding-inspired delivery game, Deliver At All Costs. Konami and Far Out Games launches Deliver At All Costs on May 22 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG. Check out the trailer below to get a glimpse at this retro GTA-inspired delivery 'simulator.' 'Deliver At All Costs will see players step into the shoes of Winston Green, a down-on-his-luck delivery driver, smashing his way through a 1950s-inspired world filled with destruction, absurdity, and intrigue,' reads a description of the game. 'Whether crashing through fences, dodging enraged townsfolk, or unraveling a deeper mystery, every delivery is complete chaos!' Deliver At All Costs may be smaller in scope, but the reception to the trailer has been largely positive. Surprisingly, the comments section for the trailer is filled with compliments, with people eagerly awaiting the destructive delivery game. 'This looks like so much fun. Ill take destruction physics game anytime,' says one YouTube user. 'The art design of the world and the fully destructible environments are fire,' says another YouTube commenter. '[You] can drive through any building. [It's] actually [a] pretty funny game too. Looking forward to this one!' Of course, at least one person had to reference legendary video game industry auteur Hideo Kojima as the Metal Gear Solid franchise is published by Konami. 'Konami doing a package delivery game after Kojima doing a Solid Snake in his package delivery game,' says the YouTube commenter. 'Gotta love it.' Hopefully, Konami and Far Out Games can… deliver… a solid experience with Deliver At All Costs. The post Konami Announced Its Own Death Stranding x GTA Game appeared first on PlayStation LifeStyle.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a full remake because it has to "stand strong enough on its own merits for new players to enjoy"
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. During last night's PlayStation State of Play, the release date for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater was confirmed. Producer Noriaki Okamura also shares some insights into how the decision to fully remake the game came about. "We've heard from many, many fans that they want to see the Metal Gear series back in action," Okamura writes on a PlayStation blog post. Metal Gear is a legendary series, but it's been ten years since the last numbered entry, so the team noticed there were "more and more players who had never played a Metal Gear game, or even heard of one." That realization is what led to the decision to remake Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater rather than just remaster the 2004 game with more modern graphics. "We just didn't think it would be satisfying to play if that was the only update," Okamura explains. "So in the end we remade nearly all the animations, and found ways to refresh almost every facet of the game, as well as fully realizing elements that were held back by technical limitations at the time of the original." A 21-year-old game with modern graphics but PS2-era animations would have looked very uncanny, so I think the decision to do a full remake makes sense. But for those of you worried that this won't be the Snake Eater you know and love, Okamura has already thought of that. "We knew that not only would this remake need to satisfy Metal Gear fans, it would also have to stand strong enough on its own merits for new players to enjoy," he writes. "We decided to take the approach of modernizing the gameplay only where it was really needed, and otherwise preserve the original experience of the game as faithfully as possible." Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater comes out August 28, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. Pre-orders are live now and some versions of the game come with bonuses such as additional uniforms for Snake to wear and some masks for him to utilize. If you can't wait until August, check out all the video game release dates for the year to see what's coming sooner.
Yahoo
07-02-2025
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As Death Stranding 2: On the Beach gets rated in South Korea and Hideo Kojima appears to tease a new trailer, a release date seems more likely than ever
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. It's looking more and more likely that we might be learning Death Stranding 2: On the Beach's release date soon, as the upcoming Kojima Productions sequel has now been rated in South Korea. As spotted by VGC, South Korea's Game Rating and Administration Committee posted Death Stranding 2's rating today. The verdict? According to machine translations, it's not for kids, which was to be expected given its predecessor's M rating. Specifically, the ratings board explains that the sequel features "excessive violence" and "vulgar language," as well as depictions of smoking, drinking, and drugs. Although it's no guarantee of a game's imminent launch, it's always promising to see these sorts of ratings come through – it's often a solid indicator that things are coming together behind the scenes. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach was already slated for a 2025 release, so it's not an enormous shock to see this come through like it was with Silent Hill f, which was also rated in South Korea last month after two years of silence. Konami still hasn't said a word about it since, mind you, but at least it shows the game is still alive. The thing with Death Stranding 2's rating, as VGC points out, is that it's come right after director Hideo Kojima teased something rather trailer-shaped on social media. In a tweet posted yesterday (translated by Google and DeepL), he said he was sitting at the "editing machine," before sharing an image of text reading "a Hideo Kojima game" in what looked like video editing software. Rumors of an upcoming PlayStation State of Play have also been running rampant lately, adding even more fuel to the fire. Just today, PlayStation itself leaked Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's release date, which is set for August 28 according to a trailer that appeared on the PS App. We'll just have to wait and see if a full presentation is happening soon, too. For now, be sure to check out our roundup of new PS5 games coming this year and beyond.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
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‘Metal Gear Solid Delta' Finally Has a Release Date
After months of radio silence, it appears that fans may finally know when they can get their hands on Konami's Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. In a potential leak by Sony via an update to the game's digital storefront on the PlayStation Store, the title's release date has now been confirmed as Aug. 28, 2025. The leak appears to be accidental, with only some regions seeing the official release date on Delta's page on the storefront (in North America, it's currently still listed only as '2025'), but the update did include a new cinematic trailer for the game, which ends with a firm confirmation of the summer launch. More from Rolling Stone How G2 Esports Created a Decade-Long Pro Gaming Dynasty 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2' Is a Complex Yet Frustrating Medieval Simulator Watch SiM Perform Their New Anthem for 'Apex Legends' The trailer itself provides a fresh look at the game's overhauled visuals, but little else outside of teasing that characters from PlayStation's classic Ape Escape franchise will return, likely in the form of a mini-game separate from the main story. Originally announced way back in May 2023, most had expected the remake of Konami's seminal 2004 stealth action game to arrive some time last year (mainly because Sony themselves said so), but despite multiple previews, 2024 came and went without any insight about Delta's launch. Yet, after the overwhelmingly positive reception to Konami's other big 2024 remake, Silent Hill 2, it seems like the company is riding high and finally ready to bring back one of gaming's most beloved franchises to the fold. But what is Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, and what should players expect? Here's everything we know so far. Initially released in 2004 for the PlayStation 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was an action stealth game from creator Hideo Kojima. The third entry in the Metal Gear Solid series, it's actually the fifth Metal Gear game overall, as the Solid releases technically follow two NES-era entries, Metal Gear (1987) and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990). It's all a bit tricky, given that there was another Metal Gear 2 — called Snake's Revenge — that was also released in 1990, but that title was developed without Kojima's involvement. Snake Eater is technically a prequel to all of these games set 31 years prior to the first Metal Gear, and follows the exploits of Naked Snake, a CIA agent that looks and sounds an awful lot like the original game's protagonist (down to his codename, Snake), despite being way too young to be the same person. Surprise: they're not! As explained in 1998's Metal Gear Solid, the hero Solid Snake that fans had come to know is actually a clone of Snake Eater's Naked Snake, who himself goes on to become 'Big Boss,' 'Solid' Snake's mentor and the antagonist of the early Metal Gear games. It's all a bit confusing, but that's the nature of Metal Gear. A politically-minded esoteric take on the technothriller and conspiracy genre, the series is all about ludicrous curveballs and navel-gazing with a healthy dose of soap opera cheese to balance things out. 2004's Snake Eater did the heavy lifting of making Naked Snake into a heroic figure in a story that harkens back to Cold War-era thrillers with a slight James Bondian skew. Widely considered to be the pinnacle of the franchise, its stealth and survival gameplay was wildly innovative, forcing players to utilize the canvas of its jungle setting to become a shadowy spectre by way of camouflage and sneaking, and introduced the need to eat (either rations or animals) in order to make it through the mission with minimal outside support. Delta is a modern remake of the game that updates its visuals to better achieve the cinematic luster that the original had in its sights, although the 2004 version was no slouch. Moment-to-moment, the gameplay is relatively identical to the base version, although a new first-person mode can be used. From the updated PlayStation Store listing, it appears the game will also be enhanced for the PlayStation 5 Pro console, which will likely make it run even smoother. The remake will be the first mainline entry (or at least, revisiting of one) since 2015's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which served as a sequel to Snake Eater once again following Naked Snake after the fourth entry jumped back to his clone as the lead. Following The Phantom Pain, Kojima left Konami to start his own studio, Kojima Productions, through which he launched a new, equally heady franchise with 2019's Death Stranding. The sequel to that game is also expected to arrive in 2025, potentially even before the remake of one of Kojima's greatest works. Kojima has no involvement in Delta, and since his departure, the Metal Gear series has been essentially dead aside from one ill-fated multiplayer spin-off. Last year, Rolling Stone was able to preview the first 90 minutes of Metal Gear Solid Delta, and the feeling of familiarity was overwhelming. The game summarizes the franchise's greatest hits — pure stealth and political intrigue, held together with sneering, anime drama. It's a perfect example of the serious strangeness that once made Konami games irreplaceable, and so it's a perfect place for the publisher to appeal to a new generation of players with weaponized nostalgia. The one-to-one remake seems to have been completely wrapped in new tissue paper, with its deep green jungle looking as supple as a baby leaf, and its gameplay is pleasantly equipped with smooth, modern controls. Otherwise, Delta is essentially the same game director Hideo Kojima created 20 years ago. The remake's producer, Noriaki Okamura, was happy to keep it this way, telling Rolling Stone through a translator that, 'We definitely feel that it is our mission to respect [Kojima's] original work. We had to make sure we deliver Kojima's creativity in a way that does not only faithfully recreate what he made, but also recreates it in a respectful way.' Despite the lack of the original creator's involvement, like a puppy with a branch in its mouth, the game proudly presents Kojima as 'director' in its opening credits. Because of this, it appears that Delta retains all the eccentricities of the original PS2 stealth game. Some of these eccentricities are novel: Okamura's team has introduced a 'battle damage system' which forces the scrapes and bullet wounds you'll inevitably accrue as Naked Snake to remain permanently on his spartan model. But some of Delta's quirks are all Kojima, like a pseudo-personality quiz question at the beginning of the game, which asks you to answer if you 'like Metal Gear Solid 1!' or 'like Metal Gear Solid 2!' and so on. Your answer triggers small aesthetic differences in your game; in the original, doing something like deciding that you like Metal Gear Solid 3 added a gameplay tweak, letting you start the game with an additional face paint cosmetic. Regardless of how you start Delta, its optional modern controls seem to work as cleanly as a new motor in your car. The game also now includes shortcuts for camouflage and the radio mechanic, which lets you communicate with other characters and receive objectives. These moments are punctuated by the game's grizzly electronic soundtrack, which has received a boost from 3D audio and pulses with helicopter-chopper energy. This improvement to sound also makes the restrained snarl of Naked Snake's voice have an even better bite. Overall, the first 90 minutes of the game pass like an idealized version of the original title (more vibrant, with fluid movement), and perfected nostalgia is the guiding force behind Konami's current output. Players who will be playing the franchise for the first time are primed to experience it that way, and that's Konami's goal. 'We hope that [players] will experience [our game] in the same way that they did 20 years ago, with that same thrill and excitement,' Okamura said. Ultimately, Konami isn't exactly entering a new phase — there's no new chapter here. The ink blots of the past 20 years are dried all over Metal Gear Solid Delta. But, through improvements to action, graphics, and story, it seems that Konami is offering players a fresh perspective on its identity. There's no need for the developer to completely move on from its past when the foundation remains timeless. Konami hasn't yet 'officially' confirmed the release date for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, but announcement is likely to come sooner rather than later now that the leaked information is out in the wild. Best of Rolling Stone Every Super Bowl Halftime Show, Ranked From Worst to Best The United States of Weed Gaming Levels Up
Yahoo
06-02-2025
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater release date leaks on the PlayStation Store
The release date for arguably one of the most anticipated games around has emerged, albeit in low-key fashion. According to an apparent leak on the PlayStation Store — perhaps about as official as you can get without a splashy announcement elsewhere — Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is set to arrive on August 28. It's scheduled to hit PC and Xbox Series X/S as well as PS5. Sony had scrubbed the release date from the game's store page (which now only bears a release window of 2025) by the time of publication. A trailer for the remake of Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid 3 was hosted on Sony's servers and also leaked. That featured the August 28 date too. It's not the first time that a game or its release date have come to light in exactly this way. We first received official word of The Last of Us Part 1, a remake of the first game in the series for PS5 and PC, in similar fashion a few years ago. The same thing happened with the remaster of the sequel. It's possible that Sony was preparing things behind the scenes ahead of a coordinated release date announcement for MGS Delta: Snake Eater. Given that a State of Play showcase is rumored to be taking place next week, it seems likely that the reveal was scheduled to take place then. But a release date that temporarily appeared on the PS Store — which was backed up by a trailer — is as clear an indicator as any that the remake will arrive this summer.
