Meet the Gamers Bringing Achievements Back to the Past

Ever since Microsoft introduced their Gamerscore system in 2005, it’s been increasingly rare for games to ship without achievements or trophies, and today there are countless websites for tracking and...

The Metal Gear Solid Novelization is a Modern Classic

I’ve never played a Metal Gear Solid game. For years I thought the series was impenetrable, a shadowy and undecipherable opus hidden behind the mythic auteur of Hideo Kojima. By sheer cultural...

The Metal Gear Series Would Have Been 35 Years Old Today

35 years ago today, Metal Gear was released for the MSX2 personal computer. While not the first game that series creator Hideo Kojima worked on (that honor goes to Penguin...