“What’s the story behind the Konami Code, anyway,” Shigeharu Umezaki asks. “There isn’t one, really,” Kazuhisa Hashimoto answered. “Because I was the one who was going to be using it, I made sure it was easy to remember. “

Well, it’s probably not Zone of Enders 3.

“It looks like the market is shrinking, right? But the total number of sales are not really shrinking. Metal Gear is still a multi-million selling title,” Tak Fujii said to Siliconera.

“This is my personal guess, but many Western gamers don’t play Japanese games anymore or maybe they never played Japanese games,” Fujii mused during our casual conversation.

Metal Gear Solid creator says he’d like USC students to use Konami’s upcoming Fox Engine to design downloadable content for games in the future.

According to Mukaitoge, producer on Frontier Gate, Konami lost their RPG know how and they would have to start from scratch by hiring new staff.

“Rather than doing what you want, doing what you like, you must have a clear idea of marketing and sales,” says Kojima.

A new Gradius game with an original storyline and anime graphics? Jackpot? No, unless you hang out in pachislot parlors. Because this snazzy trailer is for Gradius the Slot.

Metal Gear Solid director, Hideo Kojima, does a video interview, while “Psycho Turkey” from a rival game company invades Kojima Productions.

At least four Nintendo 3DS games in the coming months plus unannounced NGP titles from Konami.

Metal Gear Social, anyone? In the next year, you’ll see more Konami IPs pop up in social games.

Spotted in Australia’s Classification Board is a rating for Nightmare Dinosaur an upcoming game from Hudson Entertainment.

A new Cardgame Station at Konami corporate headquarters will conduct classes to teach beginners how to play trading card games and hold tournaments.

Following the Konami takeover, many Hudson projects including Omega Five, Bomberman, and Bonk for the Nintendo 3DS were canceled.