Tag Archives: Action

Just when you thought every possible weird thing to do for fun in GTA 5 (opens in new tab) had been covered, along come trailer tricks: disconnecting a truck trailer at high speed then using C4 to send it sailing back onto your trailer hitch (preferably over a bridge or …

The tense stealth action and bizarre quirks of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) are coming to a full multiplayer mode with Metal Gear Online on October 6 (opens in new tab) (except for PC, which is getting it next year). Konami has finally pulled …

You know, despite taking place in a world with bipedal nuclear tanks, cyborg ninjas, and nanomachine-controlled clones, I never thought of the Metal Gear Solid universe as a place where silenced rocket launchers existed. I was wrong though, as you can clearly see such a weapon being demonstrated below in …

If you haven’t put a few dozen hours into Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) yet, you probably only know Forward Operating Bases from the game’s endless server status messages. You can’t start building your own FOBs and raiding others until you’ve finished mission 22 …

Where many open-world action games are akin to sandboxes, Hitman: Blood Money is perhaps best viewed as a series of toy boxes. Each level is relatively small in scale, its parameters easily defined, but the possibilities for inventive play are numerous. The game offers several testing grounds for crazy assassination …

GTA Online (opens in new tab) is celebrating the American labor movement this holiday weekend in its own special way: with four days of revolving vehicle discounts and Job bonuses. Here’s the complete list – all events indicated will award double GTA$/RP payouts, while all (virtual) retailers indicated will have …

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is unlike any Metal Gear game before it. You can deploy whenever and wherever you want, you can invade other players’ Forward Operating Bases (when the servers are working (opens in new tab)), and you can even go cardboarding …

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes’ complete lack of cardboard boxes was concerning, but it turns out they were just back at the shop for some upgrades. At some point in the nine years between Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab), box …

Metal Gear Solid is very serious business, except for when it’s not. The series has deftly straddled the line between the solemn and the goofy, the mundane and the fantastical, ever since its inception in 1987. I can’t think of too many games that can feature a scene requiring you …

Want all the 80s anthems of MGS 5 (opens in new tab) in your ears while you plan your stealthy method of attack from your mobile? Of course you do and that’s just what the MGS 5 companion app is for. Announced on the Konami blog (opens in new tab) …