Stories about: Konami

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    Gaming interview series 20/12/2011 12:43:00

    Over the last few weeks, we've conducted interviews with former employees of iconic gaming houses, publishers and distributors to get an insight into how the gaming industry has boomed and evolved.
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    Interview: Edward Fong and Aaron Younger, former staff of games publisher and distributor GT Interactive 08/12/2011 14:15:00

    Edward Fong and Aaron Younger, former managing director and senior product manager at GT Interactive respectively, discuss the "heady days" of one of Australia's largest video game distributors
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    Japan's Gree aims to take on Facebook, Zynga with social gaming platform 06/12/2011 22:14:59

    Japanese mobile game provider Gree said Tuesday it would launch a new gaming platform next year as it looks to take on heavyweights like Facebook and Zynga.
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    Interview: Former Kojima Productions assistant producer Ryan Payton on life with Konami 30/11/2011 09:19:00

    Before Ryan Payton became assistant producer at Konami's Kojima Productions studio in Tokyo, he was living in Osaka where he was studying Japanese and making a living writing about games for publications such as XBN, EGM, 1UP, Wired, Famitsu and The Japan Times. While Payton admits that he was poor at the time, he was enjoying life in Japan and was wishing everyday that he was making games and not just writing about them.
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    Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 04/10/2011 14:41:00

    In recent years, Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) games have struggled to compete against the FIFA juggernaut. First, it was a matter of unlicensed, fake player names (the bane of all footy fanatics) against FIFA’s 'real' players. Now, they’re licensed -- just not as many. FIFA 12 has an astounding number of leagues and teams to choose from, where PES focuses almost exclusively on a handful of (major) European championships.
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    Sony Vita handheld to go on sale in Japan on Dec. 17 14/09/2011 19:03:29

    Sony said Wednesday that its PlayStation Vita portable game console will go on sale Dec. 17 in Japan, with 26 game titles and a 3G version that will run on NTT DoCoMo's network.
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    EB Games Expo exhibitors announced 31/05/2011 17:02:00

    A YouTube video posted on the EB Expo Web site has announced the first round of exhibitors on show at the EB Expo 2011, as well as official partners.
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    Here's your preliminary E3 2011 exhibitors list 11/01/2011 11:43:00

    The Entertainment Software Association has an early list of companies signed up for floorspace at E3 2011. Here's who made the list:
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    How Nintendo's NES console changed gaming 09/11/2010 13:35:00

    The video game console controller has seen countless iterations and evolutions, but perhaps none more notable or influential than the Nintendo Entertainment Console's iconic grey, black, and red controller.
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    Saw II: Flesh and Blood 05/11/2010 11:30:00

    Rescued by Konami from failed licensed game publishing house Brash Entertainment, the original Saw, based on the "torture porn" horror film franchise of the same name, was released last year to lukewarm reviews. Its recently released sequel, Saw II: Flesh and Blood, shows promise, but ultimately seems doomed to suffer the same fate. It's not a bad game -- especially for a budget title slapped together in less than a year -- but it doesn't do nearly enough to evolve or refine the ideas introduced by its mediocre predecessor.
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    12 new horror games this Halloween 22/10/2010 10:34:00

    A look at every horror-themed video game coming out this Halloween season including new downloadable content for big name franchises like Red Dead: Redemption: Undead Nightmares and lesser-known games like Rock of the Dead, which combines rhythm-based guitar strumming with killing zombies.
 
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