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.

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.

Oh, right: Burch is also the voice of Chloe in the hit narrative adventure game Life is Strange. She also has roles in Borderlands 2, Mortal Kombat X, Team Fortress 2, Gravity Ghost and a handful of other mainstream and independent games. Before even that, Burch was a regular name in the gaming world with her online series, Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, which she still produces with her brother, Anthony Burch. They have more than 280,000 subscribers on YouTube alone. "The intention was not for it to be the thing that led to all the other things," Burch says.