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Max Payne's iconic mug came about because of its creator's university TTRPG club, but he got so "self-conscious" after the game's release that he had to change his hairstyle to remain incognito
News Sam Lake seems less worried about getting recognized these days
Death Stranding 2 hands-on: An emphasis on combat and vehicles feels like an evolution of Metal Gear Solid 5, while continuing to push the first game's in-depth hiking physicality
Hands-on Hands-on | Exploring Hideo Kojima's new perspective as he prepares delivery of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Hideo Kojima admits Death Stranding is "weird," which feels like it might be a pretty substantial understatement for his entire body of work
News This is a game that lets you give the president's corpse a piggyback
Splinter Cell dev says the Chaos Theory team "couldn't have gotten more out of the hardware if we wanted to," thanks to a "paradigm shift" fueled by the original Xbox
News The OG Xbox kicked off its own mini-generation
"We had failed as designers": Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory director says developing the original stealth game was "very difficult," but that it drove Ubisoft to do "much, much better"
News "By the time we encountered the problem, we had no plan and no time to address it"
Hideo Kojima compares Death Stranding 2 to the East India Company: "It's represented by the prevalence of weapons"
News While the first game was more representative of the Silk Road era
Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid mastermind Hideo Kojima has always wanted to make a film, but Guillermo del Toro told him not to
News "'You don't have to do live action films. What you’re doing now [in games] is like a live-action film.'"
Assassin's Creed Hexe director and Far Cry 2 veteran says he "would not, and could not" work as hard as he did on Splinter Cell ever again
News Clint Hocking has a much better work-life balance now
Hideo Kojima doesn't want more than 150 people working on games like Death Stranding 2 thanks to a sheep herding tip from Mad Max director George Miller
News "I had to admit I went a little over 150, and we laughed about it"
Why is Death Stranding 2 more combat-heavy? Kojima has the most Kojima explanation possible: an obscure gameplay theory he cooked up 8 years ago
News No word on if the dookie grenades will have a larger role this time around
Death Stranding 2 technical director says that the jump from PS4 to PS5 "isn't so great," it's just "more efficient"
News "It’s more a case that on PS5 there are more efficient ways of arriving at similar goals"
Hideo Kojima doesn't really listen to feedback when it comes to Death Stranding or Metal Gear Solid's stories: "I'm not interested in making something that appeals to everyone"
News If the naked Norman Reedus didn't already give it away
Hideo Kojima says the "loss of my father was a major theme in the Metal Gear series," but Death Stranding "looks in the other direction"
News "You assume the parent’s perspective, looking toward the child"
Death Stranding 2 feels a bit like Metal Gear Solid 5, Hideo Kojima says: "When you return to your bed on the Magellan, it's the same feeling as returning to the plant"
News And that's apparently not the only thing that feels familiar
Hideo Kojima once considered he might only "have 10 years" left to create new things, and he's given his assistant "a USB stick with all my ideas" as a kind of "will"
News "This is a fear for me – what happens to Kojima Productions after I'm gone"
Hideo Kojima wanted Death Stranding 2 to have "a clearer focus on combat," giving players a "range of approaches" including Metal Gear Solid-style stealth
News Lead level designer Hiroaki Yoshiike explains players will have more freedom in how they approach Death Stranding 2
Legendary Metal Gear Solid artist Yoji Shinkawa pens exclusive Death Stranding 2 art for the latest issue of Edge Magazine
News Bespoke artwork kicks off Edge's Death Stranding 2 coverage
Death Stranding 2 isn't weird enough: Hideo Kojima has an idea for a game where your character forgets everything if you stop playing
NEws That's still pretty tame considering he once wanted the stench of blood to come from a disk
