For me, there are few games that encapsulate the turn of the millennium better than Metal Gear Solid. This month marks the 25th anniversary of its release on PlayStation in Japan, but it hit UK shelves a few months later in 1999, the same year as the first Matrix movie. While my school peers were mimicking Keanu and dodging invisible bullets, whispers reverberated around the playground of a PlayStation game that was somehow even cooler. You played a grizzled spy who snarled at you through the speakers. You took out helicopters, duelled with cyborg ninjas and spent a lot of time hiding under cardboard boxes.

Former Pentagon policy analyst Paul Scharre has recalled the story in his upcoming book Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. In the book, which will be released on February 28, Scharre recounts how the U.S. Army was testing AI monitoring systems and decided to use the Marines to help build the algorithms that the security cameras would use. They then attempted to put the AI system to the test and see if the squad of Marines could find new ways to avoid detection and evade the cameras. To train the AI, the security cameras, which were developed by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Squad X program, required data in the form of a squad of Marines spending six days walking around in front of them. After six days spent training the algorithm, the Marines decided to put the AI security cameras to the test.

On 8 July 2022, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was delivering a political campaign speech outside the Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Japan, when a man approached and shot him in the back using a homemade firearm. Even before Abe died from his injuries, footage of the assassination had been posted online. Social media users began to speculate as to the identity and motive of the killer. On the internet forum 4chan, a site notorious for its anarchic, often hateful trolling, an anonymous user posted a photograph of the video game director Hideo Kojima, claiming this "left-wing extremist" was the perpetrator. If the post was intended to bait the gullible, it worked.

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Oscar Isaac just landed the ultimate sandbox gig. The Golden Globe-winner is set to portray one of the most legendary secret operatives named Solid Snake in "Metal Gear Solid," an upcoming film based on the wildly popular videogame of the same name, according to Deadline. Created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami, "Metal Gear Solid" was first launched on PlayStation in 1998.

A British man has been fitted with a prosthetic arm inspired by a character from the classic video game, Metal Gear Solid. The Metal Gear Solid design covers the Hero Arm – the world's most affordable multi-grip bionic arm at around £10,000 – made by Bristol firm Open Bionics. Hero Arm, which is light, comfortable and'fits like a glove', has the dexterity to hold a mobile phone, cutlery or a pen – and operate machinery such as a lawnmower. The arm's movable fingers can also be held in a static position for a safe and reliable grip – and pick up an egg without breaking it. Hero Arm is already available in a range of exterior casings inspired by pop culture and films, such as such as Ironman and BB8 from Star Wars.

Sony has announced it is bringing back its original PlayStation games console – to the joy of 30-something gamers everywhere. The PlayStation Classic will be a miniature version of the company's first generation model, which represented the next evolutionary step forwards from the 16-bit Sega MegaDrive and Nintendo SNES when it first went on sale in Japan in December 1994. To celebrate, here's a look back at the games that defined that joyous machine, the best thing to happen to the 1990s outside of "Kiss from a Rose" and Gladiators on ITV. This racing simulator was admired for its sleek graphics and buffish attention to detail and became the best-selling game in PlayStation history, shifting 10.85m copies and setting up a series that is now deeply associated with Sony's home consoles. Precision was everything for players of this favourite.

From in-depth features and interviews to the daily torrent of trailers and news, we write a lot about video games here. But there's only so much one team can cover, and often some of our favorite games never grace the digital pages of Engadget. To remedy that shortcoming, we're introducing Gaming IRL, a monthly segment where several editors talk about what they've been playing in their downtime. Sometimes these'll be the latest AAA game, but you'll also see free-to-play mobile distraction and classics revisited (or criminally ignored until now). Gaming IRL is part of a broader series in which you'll find stories from all of the areas we cover: gadgets we use every day, the apps and services we adore, what we're watching and the music and podcasts we can't live without.