Tweet Up until now there haven’t been many big video game releases. Don’t get me wrong, Margaritaville Online has its place, but it is hardly a hardcore title. Unless you mean hardcore drinking, but even that is questionable. Luckily the end of January means the first of 2012′s big console...

Tweet Due to a mysterious delay in Metal Gear Solid: Rising‘s development, stealth-craving gamers this holiday season are greeted instead with a compilation of classic titles from the long-running series.  Kojima’s classic series is reborn on current-generation consoles with a high definition...

Tweet I’m a little ashamed to admit it, but I have a strange fondness for Japanese cute-em-ups. In fact, the console port of Konami’s original Otomedius is one of the reasons I bought a Japanese Xbox 360.  With 2D side-scrolling shooters not as popular as they once were, it is indeed a rare...

Tweet After last year’s meme-flooded press conference, Konami has decided to host a different sort of event this year, streaming a pre-recorded E3 briefing all over the world to showcase their upcoming software. Two million troops?  Controllerless pre-recorded dancing?  Creepy stares? More...

Tweet Has the music stopped for the rhythm genre? With the latest installments in the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises selling far below expectations, and every game room cluttered with at least one set of dusty plastic instruments, it’s easy to think so. But Guitar Hero and Rock Band...

Tweet Previously announced for the 2011 retail window, the upcoming Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 action title from Konami is being pushed past it’s initial target in favor of a 2012 release date. The delay seems par for the course with a Kojima Production game (Just look at the number of times that...

Tweet As I slowly made my way across the car laden parking lot in what seemed to be some kind of unconscious effort to delay the inevitable, a few thoughts popped into my head about what I was about to do, and the motivation that kept me from taking out my wallet and simply burning all of the cash in it and...

Tweet Some games stay with you years after they’ve run their course. These games are often referred to as classics. The tale of Castlevania definitely fits this mold that calls back a time when some of the older gamers among us recall grasping an NES controller while Simon Belmont dispatched the armies of...

Tweet Citizens of Culver City, CA, prepare yourselves because DDR is coming to you. On Thursday, August 12th, Konami is hosting a DDR event at the Royal-T Café from 5:30pm-9:00pm. Competitors are being encouraged to RSVP online at http://www.ddr.eventbrite.com/. Not only will players get to compete with...

Tweet StarCraft 2 aside, Summer tends to be a slow period for games. Luckily Microsoft is here to the rescue with the Summer of Arcade! This week’s highlighted release is the latest 2D Castlevania game from Konami. Fans of the series will be pleased with this one. Up to six players can join together...