Which brings us to Metal Gear Solid 2: Bande Dessinée, a 'slideshow' movie based on Konami's game and released on UMD for the PSP last year.

Turns out (and - honestly - who saw this coming?) that even movies that resemble violent Powerpoint presentations look better on bigger screens, so Konami have 'ported' the flick to DVD. You may buy it now, if you wish.

Metal Gear Solid 2: The Movie.. I mean Slide Show [nineoverten]

The events of 38-year-old Hideo Kojima's life prepared him to design the amazing video game Metal Gear Solid 2. As a child growing up in Kobe, Japan he played outdoor games like thief-and-detective, peeking around corners in much the same way as Solid Snake, the hero of MGS2, does today. In middle school he wrote five 600-page science-fiction novels. When one of his friends brought a camera to school, Kojima took up filmmaking, using his camera. Then he charged neighborhood kids 50 yen each to see his own movies. By the time he reached college, he had worked for Nintendo to develop video games using film techniques and became famous as a video game designer.

Wait, wait. So little Kojima stole some other kid's camera to make movies and then charged other children 50 yen to see his movies? That explains a lot!

Hit the jump for the Korean text.

MGS2 Test [Ruliweb Thanks, Torokun!]

Okay! Let's start. We're giving away a New York City Comic Con Metal Gear Solid 2 Raiden figure. Here are the top thirty finalists. And man, was it hard to pick these. Imagine how hard it's going to be for you, Kotakuland, to pick the winner. Here's how it works: You may vote for one stache and only one. Click through the gallery below and write "I vote for this" under the pic you, well, want to vote for. Any votes from accounts created today will not count and be banned. Double votes will not count either. So remember, vote once and vote underneath the actual picture! Voting will close in 24 hours. Winner announced later in the week.

Avajane writes: "As you can see, not only do I have a moustache, but my moustache has a moustache! Pretty good, eh?" Yep! More twin staches below.

The_Goddamn_Batman writes: "The real unifying character throughout these games is named Cancer. So I decided to dedicate my moustache to the true silent killer of MGS."

Another cig stache! Scaramouche states that out of respect for Solid Sanke's tendency to smuggle packs of smokes in his stomach, he made a 'stache
out of cigarettes. He adds, "The 'Kotaku-men.' sign is in reference to the 4chan meme of a Team Fortress 2 spy with a ton of cigs in his mouth, simply stating "Gentlemen." for those who need to lurk more."

P3nnst8r writes, "Presenting: the Bash 'Stache." THANK GAWD NO ONE SENT ANOTHER ONE.

Speaking of stealthy, Ashcraft has been quietly running a contest to give away this kick ass exclusive New York City Comic Con Metal Gear Solid 2 Raiden figure during his night shift. It dawned on me this morning that perhaps you day walkers want a chance at this bit of cool Metal Gear. So here's the deal:

We're having a Metal Gear mustache contest. Contestants must create and wear mustaches made out of anything BUT hair. You have until 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time on June 11 to send in a pic of your hairless upper lip mustache. We'll announce the finalists on June 12 and the winner the following day. Send in your entry to kotakutcontestATgmailDOTcom.

Hit the jump for two more mustaches. Two more awesome mustaches, that is.

Jake says, "Yee-haw!"

Tozza sends along his entry for "the prestigious Metal Gear mustache contest."

The Medicom-created action figure is of the dreaded "stealth camo" variety and limited to 1400 pieces. Can't imagine it will be too hard to get your hands on one if you don't go to the show, as I have quite a few... wait, that may be too embarrassing to print. Let's just say some people who didn't go to Comic Cons past found a way to get glow in the dark EVA figures.

Show Exclusives [NY Comic Con via MTV Multiplayer]

Driving Off the Map: A Formal Analysis of Metal Gear Solid 2 [Delta Translation Group via GSW]

Instead, the company reiterated it will focus on "innovative new applications and services" for the PS3. So says Nick Sharples from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to 1UP.

We will test all forthcoming PS2 titles, but it would be unrealistic to expect significant increases in the number of playable PS2 titles in future firmware upgrades given the above. Whilst J&D and MGS are not listed as playable, their successors MGS3 and Jak and Daxter 2 are playable.

Oh, that's comforting. Who knew I'd be so damn pleased to own a launch version of the PS3? Now let's all cross our fingers that it doesn't break. Michael McWhertor

Sony Won't Focus on Updating 'Old' PS2 Games [1UP]