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Hideo Kojima Is as Surprised as We Are That Konami Reportedly Turned Down a Matrix Video Game: 'There Could've Been a Way to Make It Work'

October 30, 2025
Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding developer Hideo Kojima says he was “surprised” to read that the creators of The Matrix wanted him to develop a game based on the franchise, insisting: “no one ever told me such a conversation had taken place.” Yesterday, IGN reported that The Wachowskis, the writers and directors behind the Matrix movies, once asked Metal Gear creator…
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The Wachowskis Asked Metal Gear Creator Hideo Kojima to Make a Matrix Video Game, but Konami Reportedly Turned Them Down

October 29, 2025
The Wachowskis, the writers and directors behind the Matrix movies, once asked Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima to design a Matrix video game, but publisher Konami reportedly turned it down. That’s according to Time Extension, which said that while a December 1999 edition of NextGen magazine stated Kojima was apparently in the running to develop a game based on the blockbuster movie, Konami…
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NASCAR 25: Innovations in Race Technology

October 29, 2025
The 2000s are memorable for plenty of peaks. The last truly great salvo of R-rated Hollywood comedies. Finnish mobile phones built sturdy enough to kill a man. Also? NASCAR games. If you know, you know. It’s not a controversial statement to say that, over the last 20…
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'It’s About Making Sure the Pacing Feels Right' — Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Director Clarifies He Is Not Cutting Content

October 28, 2025
Final Fantasy VII Remake series director Naoki Hamaguchi has clarified that while he recently assured fans that Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 would “strike a balance” when it came to pacing and be “more concise,” that didn’t mean he would change anything about Rebirth’s pacing. As we reported last week, the director reflected on criticism of the series’s…
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Ghost of Yotei's U.S. Launch Was 'Perfectly fine... Not Amazing, Not Bad,' Says Analyst — but the True Test Will Be in the Months Ahead

October 27, 2025
Ghost of Yotei has done about as well as its predecessor, Ghost of Tsushima, in terms of U.S. sales, an analyst has revealed. Sony has yet to announce a global sales figure for Ghost of Yotei, which launched exclusively on PlayStation 5 on October 2, 2025. So we’re left with regional data from sales analysts, who are unable to confirm hard sales figures but can compare launch performance in…
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