When you work in a digital industry, there’s nowhere to hide. Secrets don’t stay quiet for long, and projects often get leaked long before they are officially announced.

Some developers become washed up as they get older. They lose their creative spark. Not Hideo Kojima, though. He has taken the concept of ‘washed up’ and made an entire game out of it.

Kickstarter has something of a stained reputation. For every Pillars of Eternity, there is a Mighty No 9. For every success story, there is a cautionary tale.

A measure of the growth possibilities offered by the video games industry in Ireland was underlined in last week’s major acquisition by Dublin headquartered Keyword Studios of US-based VMC Consulting for $66m (€57m).

Ronan Jennings selects the 10 most important Irish people in the world of video games.

Konami is gearing up to release a new update for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain for the first in almost a year.

The PES 2017 demo is now available to download on PS4, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.

A batch of new PES 2017 details have been revealed, including a premium partnership with FC Barcelona.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima assures fans that Death Stranding will be his best work yet, taking a pot shot at Konami in the process.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

FROM The Walking Dead to the Walking Dad? Norman Reedus was spotted on a beach last week, clutching a baby in his arms, while covered in oil and dusty handprints. He was naked and surrounded by dead sea creatures.

It was no massive surprise that Hideo Kojima popped up at E3 as he's now working with PlayStation since being dumped by Konami. But everything else was batty.

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Konami today announced PES 2017, which it says will let players control reality.

BAFTA today announced its list of nominees for a range of game awards and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture leads the way with ten nominations.

Adam Johnson is being removed from both Pro Evolution Soccer and Football Manager. EA has said that technical issues are preventing him from being removed from everyone’s version of FIFA 16.

It's official; Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has parted ways with Konami and set up his own studio, Kojima Productions.

Who knew that confining 140 prisoners to one holding cell, with no janitor, no work or education, just six benches to sleep on and not enough food would lead to a riot?

Metal Gear Solid V players on PlayStation 4 and PC will be able to bring Quiet with them on missions 29 and 42, as Konami has fixed the issue that led to save files being corrupted.

Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain is earning rave reviews and strong sales but that doesn’t mean all fans are happy

Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain debuted at number 1 in the game retail chart for last week -to the surprise of absolutely no one.

Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain features a lot of online material but that's mostly unplayable at the moment

Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain is out, it's actually out!

Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain is out on consoles and PC on September 1 - which is just a week away for those fans hungry to step into an open world adventure with Big Boss on a big tale of revenge.

If good news is music to your ears, then you’ll get a kick out of My Song To You. The newly-released app, also known as MSTY, lets users communicate through 30-second music clips.

Hideo Kojima has revealed that he is editing a new Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain trailer, which is likely to be the last, and his last, before the game launches.

EA’s chief operating officer, Peter Moore, believes that Hideo Kojima and Konami will be able to put the drama of the last few months behind them.

Hellboy filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was all set to team up with Hideo Kojima for a new Silent Hills game, until the project game to a deadend. And its turned the director off the video game world.

Konami will release a Pro Evo 2016 demo next week, letting players get a month of game time and practice in ahead of the game's full release in September.

Konami has pushed up the PC release date of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain so that it falls in line with the console release. The publisher also detailed the type of machine you’ll need to do the game justice.

It's been a tough time for Hideo Kojima, and quite frankly the millions of gamers who enjoy his work. His name has been taken off Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain and that was after the reboot Silent Hills was cancelled out of the blue.

Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain is most definitely coming, despite whatever dispute is going on between creator Hideo Kojima and publisher Konami. And now we've got an idea of just how big the game is going to be.

A bonus mission in Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes seems to predict that Konami would remove the Kojima Productions logo from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain can be approached in a number of different ways. Konami released a new video to highlight some of the options available to players when moving about or assassinating a target.

Hideo Kojima is being phased out of Konami, even as Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain nears its release date, and its getting a bit heated

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has sold his image rights to Singaporean tycoon Peter Lim, owner of Primera Division club Valencia.

Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain isn't due out until September 1st but the game is complete enough to have been submitted to PEGI for a rating.

Soccer games are always going to have product placement between licensed boots, kit sponsors, and boarding dotted around stadiums. But Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 could take it further than ever before.

UP, UP, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. Do you recognise that? It’s the Konami code, the most famous cheat code in gaming.

Konami is planning to drastically change its approach to game publishing in the future. It plans to "aggressively" pursue mobile development.