Metal Gear

By Alexander Sliwinski As PS3 Fanboy points out, this means there are currently two 80GB PS3 SKUs available as the 40GB slowly fades away. The other version is the 80GB Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle at $499, with a copy of the game and limited backwards compatibility.

By Ross Miller Griffin McElroy won't hear our Roll of Thunder call until the weekend begins.Kevin Kelly: The Fable II pub games will be occurring, with several liftings of ale. I'll also be playing in my D&D campaign (hello, nerdom!) and trying out this new card game called Pecking Order. It's crazy, I...

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 It started out as a tantalizing April Fools gag, and then evolved into a grueling Metal Gear Solid 4 unlockable. Wanna play as Snake dressed up as the 12th century assassin? Sure thing. Just earn the Assassin's Emblem: Beat the game with 50 or more knife kills,...

By Ross Miller Culture & Community Print me: New Madden NFL 09 cover (except Xbox, Wii, and DS ...) The '$10,000' Madden PSP Entertainment Pack Olympic gold medalist trained with Wii Thumbs up to hilarious new Metal Gear commercialPermalink | Email this | Comments

By Randy Nelson Filed under: Culture, Action, Mobile Oh, Japanese television, how we love thee so. If you need a reason to share in our affection, look no further than this spot for Konami's forthcoming cell phone title, Metal Gear Ac!d Mobile. It's four minutes of sheer digital - as in fingers - brilliance...

By Ross Miller Atlus to inject PS2 with Eternal Poison this November Xbox 360 Avatars only in 'E' titles Final Fantasy XIII coming to Xbox 360 in Taiwan Metal Gear brings in solid profits for Konami Q1 Some humans destroy Destroy All Humans! PSP Burnout Paradise 'Bikes Pack' throttles back to September

By Alexander Sliwinski Konami announced that Solid Snake's final (?) adventure gave the company a nice macro-injection of cash. GameDaily reports the publisher saw revenues jump 116% to $656 million in the first quarter, with net income rising 47% to $52 million. Although Konami isn't just in the video game bus...

By Christopher Grant For inspiration, we've got this video from CanoodleStrudel, showing off 24 different handmade fighters. There's a heavy focus on characters from Japanese games - Onimusha, Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy VII - but there's also some Western treats, like...

By Ludwig Kietzmann Now now, don't discount the 16-year old boy's prescient abilities -- Mom writes he "tells me the latest trend three months before I read about it in the media." An avid Xbox fan, trend watcher Jane Wells Jr. (not his real name) decided to trade in his cherished system for a PlayStation 3, short...

By Randy Nelson Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action We were starting to think that the new camo patterns available for download via Metal Gear Solid 4's "Extras" screen were going to be fairly mundane. Silly us! This is Hideo Kojima we're talking about here, and behind his stoic stare the guy has quite...

By Ross Miller Alexander Sliwinski: Metal. Gear. Solid 4. And Ticket to Ride, which is strangely addictive.Andrew Yoon: Ludwig's coming over! YAY!Chris Grant: Having finished Metal Gear Solid 4 (finally!), I've taken up arms with Battlefield: Bad Company. I find the destructive elements vaguely catha...

By Ross Miller Culture & Community Blizzard Splash Screen Update for June 28 -- still inconclusive David Hayter needs your help to write Metal Gear Solid movie Guitar Hero: On Tour peripheral lends a hand to homebrew painting app

By Alexander Sliwinski By the time the Zero Punctuation video review of Metal Gear Solid 4 ended, we still had another two and a half minutes of commercials to watch. Given our dire attention spans, we'd completely forgotten what had happened! But those ads sure are spiffy ... Wasn't it cool how Ryu Hyuwhatshisname f...

By Randy Nelson Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, First Person ShootersThe fine bunch of gaming journos at Electronic Gaming Monthly have themselves quite a cover this month. It's covered in Helghast, and that can only mean one thing: oodles of Killzone 2 coverage.

By Ross Miller uery A week with Spore Creature Creator: Day Three Counting Rupees: Bust Blox Metareview -- Don King Presents Prizefighter (Xbox 360) Off the Grid reviews Power Grid X3F Week in Review: June 13, 2008 - June 19, 2008 Wii Wheel + Balance Board = racing simulator

By Ross Miller uery A week with Spore Creature Creators: Day Two Law of the Game on Joystiq: The Madden Suit Massively Week in Review: June 11-17 Metareview (US Edition) -- Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3) Ten uses for that extra DS Wii Fanboy Weekly: June 12 - June 18

By Justin McElroy Game Informer (100/100): "For a game as ambitious and groundbreaking as Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, sticking to the formula simply isn't good enough.As the crowning achievement of the series' 20-year history, Hideo Kojima's final Metal Gear Solid title may not be what you e...

By Ross Miller Alexander Sliwinski: I will be hunkering down with some Sins of a Solar Empire. I'm also going to test the Civilization Revolution demo a little more, which will get me itching to play some Civ IV, so then I'll probably do that.Andrew Yoon: Depending on how devastated I am by tonight's Battle...

By Kyle Orland Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action "Metal Gear Solid 4 is not the inclusive, universally entertaining experience it could have been." (7) It "is a frustrating, fractured game" (2) that "feels ... like a genie struggling to find enough goodies in the lamp, slave to the demands of everyon...

By Ross Miller Metal Gear?! Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition: The Unboxing Sagacious advice from the MGS4 install screen War has changed: a veteran's MGS4 experience Yeah, we met Kojima in Times Square uery X3F Week in Review: June 6, 2008 - June 12, 2008

By Ross Miller Born for Wii: new column reimagines franchises on the Wii Readers pick best webcomic: Team Fortress Pooh Ready at Dawn talks abandoning the PSP, piracy and being original What you need to know before playing Metal Gear Solid 4 Wii Fanboy Weekly: June 5 - June 11

By Ross Miller uery Counting Rupees: You drink their milkshake DS Fanboy Lite: May 31 - June 6 Introducing the Joystiq Metal Gear Solid 4 page Podcast 052 - Don't Chew Dare edition Metareview -- The Bourne Conspiracy (Xbox 360, PS3) Poll Results: Poker best, Shrek worst of XBLA chopping block titles

By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Nintendo Wii Yes, we like lolcats. No, we won't stop. Yes, we will consider whatever you say, so long as you check out the highlights for today: Culture & Community MGS4 PS3 bundle on Amazon.com tomorrowPermalink | Email this | Comments

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 Flipping through our copy of the July issue of EGM we were surprised to see that the editors passed up a coveted pre-release review of Metal Gear Solid 4 for ... a roundtable discussion? Turns out there's a pretty significant explanation. Here's what EGM has to s...

By Ross Miller UK runs out of Wii Fit, Nintendo will replenish ASAP GamePro: MGS4 'one of the greatest games ever' BioShock surfaces on PS3 this October Nintendo dates 'Wario Land Shake' Wii, 'Rhythm Tengoku Gold' DS, other titles for Japan Metal Gear Solid 4 soundtrack released in Japan

By Christopher Grant Though forum rumors indicate that Metal Gear Solid 4 is racking up an impressive average review score from European outlets, the only "on the record" review (read: tracked in Metacritic or Game Rankings) thus far belongs to PlayStation Official Magazine UK which awarded Kojima's opus...

By Ross Miller Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action, Adventure News flash: Europeans love Solid Snake. We'll bet you're surprised to read that, so we'll wait until you've regained consciousness to move on ... Okay, good. CVG is reporting via the ever-reliable NeoGAF forums (we think it's this thread, a...

By Ross Miller Breaking: Metal Gear Solid 4 to have really long cutscenes Hideo Kojima signing MGS4 at Virgin MegaStore in Times Square June 11 SingStar Vol. 2 hitting June 20 in Europe, June 19 in Aussieland PSP is 'gateway drug' to other Sony hardware PlayStation Blog shows off PixelJunk Eden

By Alexander Sliwinski NeoGAF poster Ephemeris snapped the photo above showing that Metal Gear Solid 4 auteur Hideo Kojima will be at the Virgin MegaStore in Times Square NYC on June 11, signing copies of the game for a midnight launch. We contacted the Virgin MegaStore's games department this morning just to co...

By Ross Miller Vigil Games details Warhammer 40K MMO LostWinds sequel already in the works Metal Gear Solid 4 intro video sneaks out Kojima: Altair costume unlockable in MGS4 Alone in the Dark shows off driving gameplay Nintendo sells 6 million Wii units in Japan

By Ross Miller Toys R Us getting big Wii shipment Sunday Smash Bros. Brawl finally hits Europe June 27, WiiWare on May 20 Nintendo Channel coming to US with WiiWare launch New Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer implies suicide, again Nintendo of America 'passionately upset' about Wii supply

By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Joyswag Sure, in Europe the Metal Gear Online "Premiere Beta" is open to any and all who wander into the PlayStation Store beginning, well, right now. But that's just not how we do things here in America! ( ... and Canada.) We prefer our beta testing to be ultra-ex...

By Ross Miller Kaplan SAT test prep coming to Nintendo DS New games this week: Gran Turismo 5 Prologue edition Nintendo says it's unaware of Mario Kart Wii problems Korea getting its Wii on April 26 See Speed Racer Wii in action See this Metal Gear Solid 4 Bluetooth headset, Snake. Snake? SNAKE!

By Ross Miller Revamped PlayStation Store goes live April 15 Ugh: Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition exclusively at GameStop Final Fantasy IV hits North American DS on July 22 Gunmetal Grey' PS3 MGS4 bundle coming to America (!) Nintendo tops 2007's Develop 100 list

By Ross Miller Rumor: Full Auto dev Pseudo Interactive closes doors Rumor: Amazon reveals Metal Gear Solid 4 US, Europe box art Rumor: Microsoft making motion-sensing Xbox 360 'Wiimote' Analyst: NPD will show March was a winner for software sales Rumor: Nintendo Wii Wheel MSRP may be $10

By Ross Miller Rumors & Speculation Is 'Ice Rage' the next Mortal Kombat game ... or a prank? Rumor: Lite-On bringing Blu-ray drives to 360 Final Fantasy IV coming to North America ... maybe Culture & Community This week, you probably Do Know Jack April Fools pranks that make Nintendo fans cry

By Ross Miller You can't have these Metal Gear Solid 4 wireless headphones WiiWare Japanese launch info round-up WiiWare Final Fantasy to charge for downloadable races Europe gets the shard with Warhawk 'Broken Mirror' expansion in April Raiden Fighters Aces demo on Japanese Xbox Live

By Ross Miller Xbox 360 sales up 40% in UK after price cut PSP gets firmware 3.93 today Japan's Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle a real steel Original Metal Gear Solid coming to PSN in Japan Persona 4 to school Japan in July Watch Mario Kart Wii played with and without Wii Wheel

By Alexander Sliwinski Did you feel that Devil May Cry 4 was so busy with its own style that it neglected to actually let you play -- well, so did Yahtzee. This week Zero Punctuation takes on DMC 4, the game which pulled a Metal Gear Solid 2 on us and introduced a character who was kind of like our original hero, but total...

By Ross Miller Destination PlayStation Destination PlayStation: Metal Gear Solid 4 dated 'late Q2 2008' Destination PlayStation: DualShock 3 to debut April 15th Destination PlayStation: God of War bundle with red PSP in June Metal Gear Online beta in April, MGS4 pre-order secures access

By Ross Miller Bored? Try playing 4,000 games. PS3 price drop drives Amazon sales Unicorn vs. Godzilla and other geeky wallets Tale of Tales showcases artistic games in development Dragon Quest maps, Google style Unreleased Game Boy Color RPG resurfacesPermalink | Email this | Comments

By Alexander Sliwinski Some of the other events on the list is the Call of Duty 3 launch in a "Nazi brothel," the Backyard Wrestling event with guys actually stapling each other (pictured, obviously), and the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater event where Hideo Kojima was offered roasted snake. We wish more PR compan...

By Ross Miller Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection reaches 5 million Konami to re-release every Metal Gear Solid in Japan Lair gets new name in Japan: 'Rise from Lair' Halo 3 chopper, more confirmed Killzone PSP update finally live Sega releases Phantasy Star-branded texting gadget for PS2, Xbox 360

By Kyle Orland Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Fighting, Competitive GamingThe next game in the Super Smash Bros. saga may be ready sooner than later. At a recent gathering of Japanese game developers, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima reportedly got a chance to play a version of the game with Smash Bros. d...