Konami Digital Entertainment is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Konami Code and the NES release of Gradius with multiple music and merchandise launches. Six classic game soundtracks, including ...

Konami Digital Entertainment is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Konami Code and the NES release of Gradius with a slate of projects, including soundtrack releases, manga collaborations, and ...

The Konami Code originated with the late Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the developer of the NES port of Gradius, released in 1986. While playing and testing the game, he found it to be too difficult, and if you ...

The celebrations will also mark the same anniversary for the NES Gradius, which was the first game to have the code ...

Hollow Knight: Silksong isn't an easy game, but that difficulty is one of the reasons why fans love it. There are likely some in the fanbase who might even feel it's too easy, and for them, developer ...

Malcolm loves games. Be they trading card games like Magic: the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, or tabletop wargames like Heroscape and Warhammer 40K, Malcolm's got a firm passion for all things interactive.

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the man who invented the "Konami code" cheat that became pervasive in video gaming and pop culture, has died. To use the code, players would press up, up, down, down, left, right, ...

If you grew up in the 1980s and played video games, you know the Konami Code. It’s very easy to remember. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, inventor of the Konami Code, said there’s a reason for that. The reason ...

The Konami Code—up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start—does wonderful things to games like Gradius and Contra. But it also does unexpected ...

Forty years ago, a single code wormed its way into a home console port and became a legendary staple of the video game industry.