Sony's Asian PlayStation website reveals some pretty sweet upcoming content packs for their neglected baby, Little Big Planet. Not only will users get several awesome themed costumes for their sackboys, and now sackgirls, but also a brand-new Metal Gear Solid level pack. The costume selection currently consists of Snake, Meryl, and Screaming Mantis so far, but [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Some earlier Internet sleuthing combined with some Japanese magazine scans already had us pretty convinced that the next MGS game was coming to Apple's devices, but if you were still skeptical, Konami has confirmed that with their latest press release. According to the release, MGS Touch will be based off of MGS4's story, and contain [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Hello there, starved off Metal Gear Solid fans. Well, you're only starved if you're not owners of Sony's little big machine, as MGS4 seemed to satisfy most of those fans. Anyway, I'm sure that when the new Konami-powered teaser website came up, proclaiming that "A NEXT METAL GEAR IS..." many of you were hoping it [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 13, 2008
People who played through Metal Gear Solid 4 may have enjoyed the game, but if you’re like me you noticed one thing: the Metal Gear theme was oddly absent from the finale. Many of us suspected that it was due to Kojima Productions being accused of plagiarism, but there was never an official explanation from [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 16, 2008
Tuesday, the Kabushiki business journal owned by Japanese investment consulting firm Morningstar made waves in the gaming community, with news that Konami was considering bringing the PS3-exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4 to Xbox 360. Though Konami has historically denied the Xbox 360 rumor, this time things were different: the Kabushiki report had a direct quote [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Kotaku and Shacknews are reporting -- each through their own anonymous source -- that following his August departure from Kojima Productions, Metal Gear Solid 4 producer Ryan Payton has found a new job at Microsoft Game Studios, where he will serve as creative director of the new Halo collaboration with Lord of the Rings director [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
Looking at previous generations of video game hardware, there have regularly been big winners and big losers in what are dubbed the "console wars." PS1 trounced the Dreamcast and N64. PS2 continues to thrive even as Xbox and GameCube lie all-but-forgotten. Nintendo's Game Boys have historically driven all competitors out of business. But in this [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Last week, we discussed seven games in which the options menu wasn't merely a place to adjust your TV display, but rather the key to unlocking the full potential of some truly stellar titles. While the post was primarily meant to inform gamers of the remarkable possibilities they might have overlooked in their own collection, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 27, 2008
Though he's rather hush-hush when it comes to concrete details about the 2009 Metal Gear Solid movie, producer Michael De Luca's interview at Collider is still well worth reading for Hideo Kojima's legion of stealth-action fans. The biggest takeaway is simply a feeling that the movie is in good hands.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Someone at Konami must really like the 18th of March, because today we have more Metal Gear Solid news than you can shake a... well, let's not go there.
Continue reading...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
2 Comments