{"id":58701,"date":"2026-06-07T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=58701"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:53:00","slug":"burn-9-makes-an-entire-game-out-of-metal-gears-codec-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=58701","title":{"rendered":"Burn-9 Makes An Entire Game Out Of Metal Gear&#8217;s Codec Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">Plus, check out the new trailer for the cosmic horror game Penguin Colony.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2186956\/burn-9-makes-an-entire-game-out-of-metal-gear-s-codec-scenes\/\" data-post-title=\"Burn-9 makes an entire game out of Metal Gear's Codec scenes\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2186956\">\n<picture id=\"pe6c8b70491c082547e64229c8733d786\">&#13;<source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/burn-9-makes-an-entire-game-out-of-metal-gears-codec-scenes\/intro-1780517969.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/burn-9-makes-an-entire-game-out-of-metal-gears-codec-scenes\/intro-1780517969.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/burn-9-makes-an-entire-game-out-of-metal-gears-codec-scenes\/intro-1780517969.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2186956\/burn-9-makes-an-entire-game-out-of-metal-gear-s-codec-scenes\/\" data-post-id=\"2186956\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Burn-9 makes an entire game out of Metal Gear's Codec scenes: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"The Burn-9 logo in white and red, with the subtitle \" tactical=\"\" radio=\"\" action=\"\" sits=\"\" on=\"\" a=\"\" black=\"\" background.=\"\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">14 Hours Productions<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>&#8220;Do you think love can bloom, even on a battlefield?&#8221; It&#8217;s one of many questions the Metal Gear series ask players to consider across its many cutscenes and Codec calls. As a player, you&#8217;ve most often seen those conversations play out from the perspective of Big Boss or one of his many clones, but a new game from indie studio 14 Hours Productions asks what if you were instead the person behind the screen in those interactions. Announced today during the Story-Rich Showcase, <em>Burn-9<\/em> is described as a &#8220;reverse Metal Gear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Burn-9 - Reveal Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSntOAVgcks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a radio operator, it&#8217;s your job to guide a secret agent, who goes by the handle Dodo, as they try to salvage a mission that has gone horribly wrong. Your interactions with the agent and others play out over a series of radio conversations. Each time, you&#8217;ll have the chance to respond to situations in a few different ways, deciding how best to guide your agent and the amount of information you want to reveal to them and your superiors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-holder embedded gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"A screenshot from Burn-9. It shows a map with a dialogue tree on the left side.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/uploads\/embed\/it-Q24kQc-1780516130.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">14 Hours Productions<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Caught between the military&#8217;s command and your field agent, the orders you&#8217;re given may conflict with your own morals and interests,&#8221; says publisher Fellow Traveller. Judging from that description, <em>Burn-9<\/em> sounds like it&#8217;s trying to accomplish what Lucas Pope did with his breakaway hit, <em>Papers, Please<\/em>, which forced players to make impactful moral decisions through the most mundane gameplay possible. The description continues: &#8220;As the pressure mounts, impossible choices will fall on you. Information becomes your greatest weapon, and every piece of intel you gather presents a new opportunity. What will you share? What should never see the light of day? Who can you trust?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Penguin Colony Expanded Story Trailer - Story-Rich Showcase 2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14mEZjkixKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Burn-9<\/em> will arrive on PC later this year through Steam. A demo of the game will be available as part of Steam Next Fest, which runs from June 15 to 22. Separately, Fellow Traveller shared a new trailer for <em>Penguin Colony<\/em>, the next game from Origame Digital, the studio behind 2020&#8217;s excellent <em>Umurangi Generation<\/em>. <em>Penguin Colony<\/em> is an adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft novellas <em>At the Mountains of Madness<\/em> and <em>The Shadow Out of Time<\/em>. And look, if the voice of <em>Disco Elysium<\/em> narrator Lenval Brown isn&#8217;t enough to sell you on this game, then surely the fact you witness a host of different human factions, including some Nazis, descend into madness through the eyes of a penguin should be enough. <em>Penguin Colony<\/em> will arrive later this year on PC and Nintendo Switch 2, with a demo available now on Steam.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2186956\/burn-9-makes-an-entire-game-out-of-metal-gear-s-codec-scenes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, check out the new trailer for the cosmic horror game Penguin Colony. &#13;&#13;&#13; &#13; 14 Hours Productions &#8220;Do you think love can bloom, even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[24303,24304,3747,258,8455,6552,1777],"class_list":["post-58701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-burn9","tag-codec","tag-entire","tag-game","tag-gears","tag-metal","tag-scenes","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}