Daniel Melville gets a Metal Gear Solid bionic arm.
Daniel Melville gets a Metal Gear Solid bionic arm.
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Man born without a hand gets Metal Gear Solid 3D-printed bionic arm

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Daniel Melville has a real 3D-printed bionic arm based on the Metal Gear Solid video game series. That’s something special because Melville was born without a right hand.

Open Bionics and Metal Gear Solid publisher Konami teamed up to create a Venom Snake bionic arm for Melville, who lives in Reading in the United Kingdom. I talked with Melville back in 2018, when he came into the media spotlight as an ambassador for Open Bionics. The company created an artificial limb that was based on the character Adam Jensen in the Square Enix and Eidos Montreal science fiction game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.