News Summary

• The Wachowskis asked Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima to design a Matrix video game, but publisher Konami reportedly turned it down.
• A former Konami employee, this one unwilling to go on record, claimed Konami had actually shown "strong interest" in the game, and there was "immense disappointment" when the project didn't go ahead.
• The Matrix franchise was adapted into a series of games nonetheless, starting with Shiny Entertainment's Enter the Matrix in 2003, follow up The Matrix: Path of Neo in 2005, and Monolith Production's The Matrix Online in the same year.