The soundtrack to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a lot like the game — totally insane, sometimes stupid but always appropriately fun. And not even the power of the kazoo can temper how badass it is.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's always-online PC problems have been fixed, according to a couple of tweets this morning from Kojima Productions' Steve Key. A Konami representative also confirmed to Kotaku that the issue has been resolved. New downloads should work fine, though already-affected users will probably…
Well, this sucks. After nearly a year, the 2013 action game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has come to PC, but it arrived with a dark passenger: It apparently won't work without an internet connection.
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Out soon will be this Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengence figure of the game's star, Raiden. Look at a single image and you might not think it's that great. Look at more and you'll see why he's so amazing.
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In the West, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was released on the Xbox 360. In Japan, it wasn't. Here's why.
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This video gives us a glimpse into Metal Gear Rising: Revengance's latest DLC pack, which stars the cuddly and dangerous LQ-84i, aka Bladewolf. Okay, maybe not cuddly, but just look at him touching noses with that cat. I mean come on. The Blade Wolf DLC is coming to North America on May 14.
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The past few years produced a huge amount of great games and a surprisingly decent amount of them have well-developed characters that are hard to forget. And, of course, some of them look really attractive.
Konami has announced that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will be getting its third piece of DLC in Japan on May 9. The DLC will feature a new campaign where you control LQ-84i, AKA the Bladewolf.
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It’s time to talk about cherry blossoms. And how they relate to downloadable content.
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We've heard more requests for a deal on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance than any other game. Newegg has sliced 33% off Platinum's latest, knocking the price down to $40 on both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. This is the first discount for Revengeance, so cut in before you have to wait for another.
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Except for, you know, when he slices people in half. That part may be different. Maybe. I dunno you that well.
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Starting today, PS3 owners can get the VR Missions DLC for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It's free until April 3rd.
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Well, to be fair, she's not a real girl. It's a cardboard cut-out of a woman, which honestly should make it even easier for Raiden to slice into multiple parts. But the smiling advertisement is magically invulnerable to the edge of Raiden's high-frequency blade.
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I'm enjoying the totally absurd Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (check out Evan's review if you missed it) but like many games by both Platinum and Kojima, it's hard not to notice certain tropes, clichés and themes.
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It seems that Raiden's new, high-speed romp through the world of Metal Gear has taken hold of everyone. Even the most critical ones found something to like about the adrenaline-pumping limb-slashing gameplay.
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There's a part early on in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance where you're going to want to give up. Please don't.
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While Hideo Kojima didn't direct Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, he did direct this trailer, and it shows. For one, it's seven minutes long. Seven minutes long!
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They had to make up a word for it. For all the over-the-top cyber-machismo dancing across the screen in this new Metal Gear game. Nothing currently extant in the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition would do. And the definition? Something like, "the confluence of bionic ninja warriors,…
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