Matches are 4v4, and losing a match causes your Bombergirl’s clothes to shred, naturally, meaning the losing team can take solace in seeing some anime boob.
Where the gameplay video at the 4:19 mark, shows one of the Bombergirls in tattered clothing. Specifically her shoulder is exposed and she's pulling at her skirt or whatever, I don't know. Given a lack of other shots, and taking into account the differences in western vs eastern culture and all, IDK.
Would be surprised if this game saw any form of western release.
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Matches are 4v4, and losing a match causes your Bombergirl’s clothes to shred, naturally, meaning the losing team can take solace in seeing some anime boob.
Where the gameplay video at the 4:19 mark, shows one of the Bombergirls in tattered clothing. Specifically her shoulder is exposed and she's pulling at her skirt or whatever, I don't know. Given a lack of other shots, and taking into account the differences in western vs eastern culture and all, IDK.
Would be surprised if this game saw any form of western release.
The saga between Kojima and Konami continues. Long story short, Kojima's having trouble getting health insurance for his employees because Konami has such big sway over the health insurance association that provides coverage to software companies, and Konami is making life difficult for former employees.
The saga between Kojima and Konami continues. Long story short, Kojima's having trouble getting health insurance for his employees because Konami has such big sway over the health insurance association that provides coverage to software companies, and Konami is making life difficult for former employees.
I guess we could not watch the new Castlevania cartoon?
It kinda sounds like the main reason it's happening is because the creative talent behind it were so diligent in making it a reality rather than Konami having a real vested interest in it existing.
For real I am starting to believe the rumors that Konami has actual hitmen on their side that are looking to put a bullet into Kojima and his affiliates.
For real I am starting to believe the rumors that Konami has actual hitmen on their side that are looking to put a bullet into Kojima and his affiliates.
Well, Konami being a yakuza front is a thing that's been circling the net for years...
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I wish there was more I could do to harm Konami for shit like this other than never buying the games they're not making.
Zero difference that will make.
If casinos started boycotting their pachinko machines in protest, then they would probably fold over, but that's not happening either.
Thanks to Twin Peaks, we've seen that casino owners are every bit as malicious.
I don't think that's really to Twin Peaks credit
I'm not sure it's even possible to be a decent person and run a casino. If you're in the business of running a casino you absolutely know the odds and you also know that you're fucking people over in the long term and with addicts often in the short term. Like that is, at it's core, the foundation of the business a casino owner is in.
In the context of Konami being as manufacturer of pachinko machines this story almost makes sense in a perverted way because of course they'd be that terrible.
It's just something I hadn't really thought about until it was made clear in (semi) dramatic fashion.
no worries
personally I unfortunately can't get through Twin Peaks
I think if I made it through I'd like it but I've tried at least a half dozen times and it feeling like a campy after school special killed it every time before I make it more than a few episodes in
Konami’s Cruel Treatment of ‘Metal Gear’ Creator Hideo Kojima Continues
Hideo Kojima is one of the most illustrious game designers in the world. Known for his sterling work on the Metal Gear series, which has won awards and the love and admiration of countless gamers, Kojima was ill-treated at Konami, where he worked for several decades until his exile in late 2015.
It was revealed Friday that Konami continues to exert its cruel grip on the talented developer by punishing him and other former employees. He is facing severe repercussions from the company for his decision to leave them, including denying him pay he is owed and colluding to prevent his employees from getting health insurance.
The game designer left Konami under a shroud of controversy. He was working on a horror game called Silent Hills with director Guillermo del Toro, and renowned manga creator Junji Ito. It starred Norman Reedus as the main character. A playable teaser for the game, titled PT, met with widespread acclaim upon its release on PlayStation 4. The game’s sudden cancellation in April 2015 prompted confusion from its co-creator Del Toro, who publicly stated: “When you ask about how things operate, that makes no fucking sense at all that that game is not happening. Makes no fucking sense at all.”
Konami exercised their corporate muscle to ban Kojima from attending The Game Awards in December 2015, where his hit title, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, won multiple awards. Kiefer Sutherland had to accept them on his behalf. The audience booed Konami for treating him poorly, and a #FuckKonami hashtag was spawned on social media to lambast the company.
Days later, the Japanese game designer announced that he would be starting a company staffed by many former Konami employees to work on a new game, which has since been revealed to be Death Stranding.
While attending the Tokyo Game Show in 2015 to talk about his new venture, fans asked Kojima if he had any role in the development of Konami’s new zombie-themed Metal Gear, which was poorly received. He responded: “That has nothing to do with me.” His remarks received a crowd of laughter from the audience, further inflaming tensions between him and Konami.
Hideo Kojima has no love lost for Konami, given how poorly they are alleged to have treated him. Geoff Keighley, the Game Awards host and friend of the game designer, described the challenging circumstances under which he was forced to finish Metal Gear Solid 5, and charged that Konami robbed him of his award.
“He was locked in a separate room on a different floor than his development team for six months of development,” said Keighley in a Glixel interview. “He couldn’t even talk to them—he had to talk through someone else. That’s how the game was finished.”
It has now come to light that his remarks were poorly taken by Konami. According to Nikkei, Konami considers the comment a breach of their contract, and is stalling payments to him for his work on Metal Gear Solid 5.
Konami’s aggression against Hideo Kojima didn’t end there. Nikkei revealed that Kojima Productions was denied health insurance from ITS Kenpo, which provides insurance for companies in the Japanese gaming industry. As the publication notes, membership in the organization is crucial for employee welfare. When the Kojima Productions executive inquired about the rejection, he was told that all applications were screened by the board chairman before review by the board itself. Kimihiko Higashio, a Konami director, is the chairman at ITS Kenpo–a clear conflict of interest. To date, Kojima Productions is still unable to join the organization.
Hideo Kojima isn’t the only ex-staffer facing trouble following his departure from Konami. Nikkei writes that the company maintains a blacklist of former employees, or “ex-Kons,” that prevents them from working in the entertainment industry. A staffing agency employee told the publication that he notifies gaming companies if a prospective hire is an ex-Kon, because Konami files complaints to them about their former employees.
Ex-Kons told the publication that Konami instructed employers not to deal with their former employees, and in one case even pressured a former Konami executive into shutting down his business. Former staffers are also not allowed to use their experience with Konami on their public resumes. If an ex-Kon is interviewed by the media, the company will even threaten a lawsuit, writes Nikkei. Working for Konami is a lifelong commitment, it would seem.
Working at the company is no less draconian. Employees are prohibited from having corporate email addresses, and are instead given randomized addresses that are terminated within a few months. Lunch breaks are on a strict time limit, and those who breach protocol are publicly humiliated by the organization. In various cases, talented game designers, programmers and designers deemed to have underperformed at their jobs are reshuffled to humiliating positions to work as janitors, office security or laborers in Konami’s pachinko factories.
It’s no surprise that #FuckKonami continues to trend in the gaming community.
Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter and on Facebook.
I knew some of this already of course, but Konami's trying to prevent Kojima and employees of his new studio from getting health insurance plus blacklisting employees that left Konami so they are unable to find jobs, talk to the media, or even use Konami on their resumes disgusts me.
They don't have to give a good reference, but they can't actually stop employees from listing time there on a resume, can they?
I don't know how the Japanese legal system works, but if it's anything like the US's, the threat of "let's take it to court and find out who runs out of money first" is a very possible strategy more than the actual legality of it.
And Konami is a company that's petty enough to spend that kind of court money just to do that.
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Fuck that shit, lets bring these amazing developers over to America where it HAS to be better than this.
It also makes me curious about the legality of blocking offering health insurance for no reason, if Kojima pushed it. I guess Kohima could move his company to another country and just say fuck it, or cozy up to someone like Microsoft or Sony, that can tell Konami to suck eggs.
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Man, I don't even like MGS and I think that's fucked up.
It also makes me curious about the legality of blocking offering health insurance for no reason, if Kojima pushed it. I guess Kohima could move his company to another country and just say fuck it, or cozy up to someone like Microsoft or Sony, that can tell Konami to suck eggs.
The problem with that is just how much weight Konami has in the health insurance industry over there. Someone from Konami is on the board, apparently, and I'm betting quite a few of the health resorts that can be used until this insurance are owned by konami. So piss konami off...and you just lost access to all those resorts.
Konami’s Cruel Treatment of ‘Metal Gear’ Creator Hideo Kojima Continues
Hideo Kojima is one of the most illustrious game designers in the world. Known for his sterling work on the Metal Gear series, which has won awards and the love and admiration of countless gamers, Kojima was ill-treated at Konami, where he worked for several decades until his exile in late 2015.
It was revealed Friday that Konami continues to exert its cruel grip on the talented developer by punishing him and other former employees. He is facing severe repercussions from the company for his decision to leave them, including denying him pay he is owed and colluding to prevent his employees from getting health insurance.
The game designer left Konami under a shroud of controversy. He was working on a horror game called Silent Hills with director Guillermo del Toro, and renowned manga creator Junji Ito. It starred Norman Reedus as the main character. A playable teaser for the game, titled PT, met with widespread acclaim upon its release on PlayStation 4. The game’s sudden cancellation in April 2015 prompted confusion from its co-creator Del Toro, who publicly stated: “When you ask about how things operate, that makes no fucking sense at all that that game is not happening. Makes no fucking sense at all.”
Konami exercised their corporate muscle to ban Kojima from attending The Game Awards in December 2015, where his hit title, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, won multiple awards. Kiefer Sutherland had to accept them on his behalf. The audience booed Konami for treating him poorly, and a #FuckKonami hashtag was spawned on social media to lambast the company.
Days later, the Japanese game designer announced that he would be starting a company staffed by many former Konami employees to work on a new game, which has since been revealed to be Death Stranding.
While attending the Tokyo Game Show in 2015 to talk about his new venture, fans asked Kojima if he had any role in the development of Konami’s new zombie-themed Metal Gear, which was poorly received. He responded: “That has nothing to do with me.” His remarks received a crowd of laughter from the audience, further inflaming tensions between him and Konami.
Hideo Kojima has no love lost for Konami, given how poorly they are alleged to have treated him. Geoff Keighley, the Game Awards host and friend of the game designer, described the challenging circumstances under which he was forced to finish Metal Gear Solid 5, and charged that Konami robbed him of his award.
“He was locked in a separate room on a different floor than his development team for six months of development,” said Keighley in a Glixel interview. “He couldn’t even talk to them—he had to talk through someone else. That’s how the game was finished.”
It has now come to light that his remarks were poorly taken by Konami. According to Nikkei, Konami considers the comment a breach of their contract, and is stalling payments to him for his work on Metal Gear Solid 5.
Konami’s aggression against Hideo Kojima didn’t end there. Nikkei revealed that Kojima Productions was denied health insurance from ITS Kenpo, which provides insurance for companies in the Japanese gaming industry. As the publication notes, membership in the organization is crucial for employee welfare. When the Kojima Productions executive inquired about the rejection, he was told that all applications were screened by the board chairman before review by the board itself. Kimihiko Higashio, a Konami director, is the chairman at ITS Kenpo–a clear conflict of interest. To date, Kojima Productions is still unable to join the organization.
Hideo Kojima isn’t the only ex-staffer facing trouble following his departure from Konami. Nikkei writes that the company maintains a blacklist of former employees, or “ex-Kons,” that prevents them from working in the entertainment industry. A staffing agency employee told the publication that he notifies gaming companies if a prospective hire is an ex-Kon, because Konami files complaints to them about their former employees.
Ex-Kons told the publication that Konami instructed employers not to deal with their former employees, and in one case even pressured a former Konami executive into shutting down his business. Former staffers are also not allowed to use their experience with Konami on their public resumes. If an ex-Kon is interviewed by the media, the company will even threaten a lawsuit, writes Nikkei. Working for Konami is a lifelong commitment, it would seem.
Working at the company is no less draconian. Employees are prohibited from having corporate email addresses, and are instead given randomized addresses that are terminated within a few months. Lunch breaks are on a strict time limit, and those who breach protocol are publicly humiliated by the organization. In various cases, talented game designers, programmers and designers deemed to have underperformed at their jobs are reshuffled to humiliating positions to work as janitors, office security or laborers in Konami’s pachinko factories.
It’s no surprise that #FuckKonami continues to trend in the gaming community.
Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter and on Facebook.
I knew some of this already of course, but Konami's trying to prevent Kojima and employees of his new studio from getting health insurance plus blacklisting employees that left Konami so they are unable to find jobs, talk to the media, or even use Konami on their resumes disgusts me.
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Where the gameplay video at the 4:19 mark, shows one of the Bombergirls in tattered clothing. Specifically her shoulder is exposed and she's pulling at her skirt or whatever, I don't know. Given a lack of other shots, and taking into account the differences in western vs eastern culture and all, IDK.
Would be surprised if this game saw any form of western release.
when's clothing damage gijinka zoe3
Gives the phrase 'Fuck Konami' new meaning.
Xtreme Bomberman was at least not nothing.
i suddenly don't want zoe3 anymore...
2003.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/08/netflix-announces-castlevania-animated-series
Yes. tl;dr cool poster, shitty everything else we know.
So basically they're still dicks.
This isn't dickish.
This is inhuman.
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Obviously, you have to start a petition.
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It kinda sounds like the main reason it's happening is because the creative talent behind it were so diligent in making it a reality rather than Konami having a real vested interest in it existing.
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Zero difference that will make.
If casinos started boycotting their pachinko machines in protest, then they would probably fold over, but that's not happening either.
Thanks to Twin Peaks, we've seen that casino owners are every bit as malicious.
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Nah, Konami is worse. Burns at least provides health and dental plans.
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Well, Konami being a yakuza front is a thing that's been circling the net for years...
I don't think that's really to Twin Peaks credit
I'm not sure it's even possible to be a decent person and run a casino. If you're in the business of running a casino you absolutely know the odds and you also know that you're fucking people over in the long term and with addicts often in the short term. Like that is, at it's core, the foundation of the business a casino owner is in.
In the context of Konami being as manufacturer of pachinko machines this story almost makes sense in a perverted way because of course they'd be that terrible.
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no worries
personally I unfortunately can't get through Twin Peaks
I think if I made it through I'd like it but I've tried at least a half dozen times and it feeling like a campy after school special killed it every time before I make it more than a few episodes in
I knew some of this already of course, but Konami's trying to prevent Kojima and employees of his new studio from getting health insurance plus blacklisting employees that left Konami so they are unable to find jobs, talk to the media, or even use Konami on their resumes disgusts me.
I don't know how the Japanese legal system works, but if it's anything like the US's, the threat of "let's take it to court and find out who runs out of money first" is a very possible strategy more than the actual legality of it.
And Konami is a company that's petty enough to spend that kind of court money just to do that.
"Can" is open to interpretation.
Not one more cent.