Alex Royce poses with Kojima, then tries to cover it up.

[NickJames?]

In this epic thread http://www.flamehaus.com/bbs/metal-gear-vt147115.html



Fellow Flamehaus/HL2world ex-regular now turned lurker Alex Royce created a thread posting a picture of himself posed with famous game designer Hideo Kojima. After some clever 4channing by deusgear posed as Alex the news quickly spread to Kotaku and other sites. In an attempt to keep his job Alex called upon the help of snakez to grant him temporary moderator powers and delete all evidence of his posts.

Resulting in this news post on kotaku. http://kotaku.com/5109080/rumor-kojima-working-on-first+person-shooter-calls-on-infinity-ward

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Kotaku opened his big mouth to say:
According to an anonymous poster on the popular but perennially sketchy 4chan board, Metal Gear Solid series director Hideo Kojima visited the offices of Infinity Ward today. Why? "To learn" about first-person shooters, allegedly.

The purported Infinity Warder wrote — with accompanying photo "proof" of the visit — that Kojima is working on something in the "FPS genre so he came to us to learn and take details from the team." It wouldn't be the first time that Kojima was rumored to have called upon the Call of Duty developer's FPS know-how.

EGM (and 1UP, natch) ran unconfirmed reports that Kojima was "on tour," visiting FPS experts like Infinity Ward and Killzone developer Guerrilla Games for some knowledge sharing.

Kojima has also dropped by Call of Duty: World At War developer Treyarch, we hear, a strong hint that the head of Kojima Productions wants to put third-person cameras behind him.

Could this be what "a next Metal Gear is?" Or is Kojima working on another beloved property, Policenauts or Snatcher, possibly? We'll keep you posted. Until then, consider this rumor for now.

Thanks to Chris for the heads up.

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Further resulting in damage control from infinity ward rep. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345332

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Fourzerotwo on Neogaf opened his big mouth to say:
As much fun as this is, regretfully I've had to clarify Kojima's visit, Kotaku post updated:

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Kotaku opened his big mouth to say:
Update: Robert Bowling from Infinity Ward helps to clarify the details of Kojima's visit, call the quote that the Metal Gear director was there to learn from the developer "bullshit" and "re-donku-lous."

Bowling writes: "We're massive fans of Kojima's work, with MGS4 ranking up as one of my personal favorite games of all time. To presume Kojima and company has anything 'to learn' from us regarding game design is re-donku-lous. As fans of his team's work, we invited them to the studio for lunch and to check out what we currently have in the works while they were in Los Angeles. It's fairly typical for us to meet up with fellow developers whom we admire. Whether it be Kojima, Blizzard, or otherwise."

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[MrPockets5454]

Let's be a dick and post another thread about it.

[NickJames?]

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MrPockets5454 opened his big mouth to say:
Let's be a dick and post another thread about it.

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I think you have his a little too far down your throat.

[MrPockets5454]

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NickJames? opened his big mouth to say:
I think you have his a little too far down your throat.

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I just don't think it's worth another thread. If you're doing this to get noticed by some news site or forum its pretty pathetic.

[NickJames?]

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MrPockets5454 opened his big mouth to say:
I just don't think it's worth another thread. If you're doing this to get noticed by some news site or forum its pretty pathetic.

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what? Have you seen the last time the front page of the haus has been updated? This is news worthy so I put it here. We have this section for a reason.

[Blood Redd]

I think we can all agree that RoflRoyce is a moron, but this definitely didn't merit a 4th thread.

Also, this isn't "news-worthy" in the least; it was a mistake made by Royce that could potentially cost him his job. As arrogant and douchey as Royce is, losing his job over an excited bragging episode is shitty and undeserved.

I think we can all agree that Nick's a dickhead for trying to capitalize on Royce's mistake, especially since it's real fucking clear that his intentions are to get noticed by other sites.

[NickJames?]

Yeah because im the one who went on 4chan and bothered to post this in the first place you're all a bunch of fucking morons tbh. How exactly does me making this news article get me noticed on other sites? Why the fuck would I even want to be noticed?

Go some more

And as far as I know this is the 2nd thread. Worthless does not count.

[BLACK^WOLF]

wait, this is the 4th?

also more haus related awesomeness needs to be posted on the front page as news

[NickJames?]

YEAH! Lets spread this bitch around! Come on guys I got to rake in that mad cash that I am apparently making.

[spuit*11]

I approve of this thread.

[lasershock]

We need more news like this tbh

[Grey Fox]

One one hand what happened is pretty cool, on the other hand this could be
bad for Royce and us. I don't like him, but I thinks it's cool he works at IW
and that he is living his dream I certainly enjoy his work. Plus I doubt after
this he or anyone will post anything like this anymore.

[Blood Redd]

Or he'll just stop posting altogether.

[J_c]

[FezDemon]

This is dumb and/or locked