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Out of time Note: A earlier version of this article was published in December 2013. By golly, that Metal Gear Solid 5 certainly looks sumptuous now doesn’t it? Even on the old school systems! Who’d have thought that a title as singularly ambitious as this could still appear so sweet, …

Warning: I’m spoiling everything up in here. You’ve been warned. Can a game be your favorite and least favorite at the exact same time? Because that’s the sort of mental gymnastics I’ve been dealing with since I rolled credits (full credits, mind) for the third time in Metal Gear Solid …

Solid Snake was always supposed to be the hero of the Metal Gear franchise. He was inspired by Snake Plissken from Escape From New York. His image on the cover of the NES version of Metal Gear is almost identical to Kyle Reese in The Terminator (opens in new tab). …

So it looks like everyone is getting in on this theme park lark. After Nintendo announcing its plans with Universal Studios (opens in new tab), Ubisoft has announced that a ‘next-generation’ theme park is being planned for a 2020 opening in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. “Ubisoft’s intention for this park …

Oh, halcyon days. Before Share buttons and in-game social integration matrices, when Twitching was something that you went to A&E for, and 60 frames per second was Bobby Fischer’s sideline in record-breaking snooker. These were the days when all you had were a few friends, a few controllers and some …

Much like every other game this year, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate will be pounding the cobbled streets of Victorian London. The decision to modernise the latest entry has brought with it both challenges and new avenues of freedom (hello, rope launcher), but that hasn’t stopped Ubisoft Quebec from including the series’ …

It’s a good thing that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is still a lot of fun offline, because its first few days have been plagued with slow servers and extended downtime. Now Konami says on its official status page (opens in new tab) that …

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is the most connected Metal Gear ever made, so you may not be surprised that it’s encountered some of the standard launch day difficulties. Unexpected “server connection issues” have led Konami to deactivate or pare down some of the …

I was 14 when Metal Gear Solid (opens in new tab) came out. I bought it because it was about robots, cyborgs, and a gruff, cynical protagonist. I bought it because it offered a world full of intrigue, subterfuge and espionage. I bought it because the demo let me use …

All it takes to throw Los Santos into total societal breakdown is one little motorcycle accident. This first-person GTA 5 (opens in new tab) video shows one of the most remarkable demonstrations of cause-and-effect I’ve ever seen, virtual or otherwise, as one wreck stretches out into about four minutes of …