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Now that Grand Theft Auto IV has been released, it's type for the next big hype machine to kick into high gear: Metal Gear Solid IV. To get whet your appetite, GameTrailers has Part 1 up of the franchise's history. Interesting stuff! Watch it.
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Metal Gear Online Gameplay
It's blurry, yes, and they're all yammering on in Japanese, but you get the gist. It's Metal Gear Online. And it's Metal Gear Online not in some pre-prepared trailer, but how it'll look when you're actually allowed into the beta on Friday (fingers crossed, touching wood upon a crossed heart). Looks...well, it certainly looks different.
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Stick a fork in it, this beta's almost done. Konami have just issued a statement on the Metal Gear Online site, which reads:
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Konami ID Dojo: Servers Collapse, Beta Postponed
Stick a fork in it, this beta's almost done. Konami have just issued a statement on the Metal Gear Online site, which reads: ...we regret to inform you that due to extraordinary levels of traffic from all around the globe, we have been unable to run the service to the level we expected. As a temporary measure, we will be deferring the start of the US public beta test until we are able to stabilize our server. We would like to apologize for all inconveniences as well as confusion caused.As a result, the beta's start date - which was meant to be today - has been postponed, with an announcement on a new date expected on Tuesday (Europe: "we will be suspending the European public beta test and restart it once we stabilize our server"). To compensate for this, the beta will be run for another week, and is now due to end on the 11th of May, rather than the 6th. Good thing Konami are doing all this now, such a loooooong time before the game's due for release, because if they left it to the last minute (like, a month and a half before release, say), people might start to worry!
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MGS4 Double-Secret Hands On
GamePro got a hands-on with Metal Gear Solid 4, with some other "gaming insiders" (not us) at some Cheyenne Mountain-style hole-up for Konami and Kojima over in Japan. It's a comprehensive look at an A-list game for 2008, and I know a lot of you can't wait to get your hot little hands on it. More »
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Metal Gear Selleck [Geekpulp]
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Brian H. sent on this little gem, playing up the uncanny resemblance of Magnum P.I. star Tom Selleck and uh, Solid Snake.
Snake is instantly recognizable for a few simple features, his signature eye patch, the 80's glam rock head band and probably most importantly his manhood, that's right, his Moustache. But call me a heathen, when I hear the word moustache only one name springs to mind and that is Magnum P.I a.k.a Tom Selleck. Driving a Ferrari, courting beautiful women, for Gods sake he made Hawaiian Shirts cool. I pay him homage with a game cover should he ever decide to cash in on his mo.
Metal Gear Selleck [Geekpulp]
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MGS1 Will Not Be A PS2 Port
Back. It. Up. Yesterday, Konami's American PR said that the version of Metal Gear Solid 1 included in the upcoming Metal Gear compendium would be shipping on a PS2 disc. Turns out that was a load of rubbish. The game will be shipping on two PS1 discs, just like it always has. Kojima Productions producer Ryan Payton tells us:
This is totally false and I want to make sure everybody is clear that the MGS1 package is two PS1 CDs.
Consider yourselves not just corrected, but correctly informed.
Metal Gear Solid Not A PS2 Port [GameAlmighty]
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Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection Confirmed
While we'd already seen the pre-order at places like Play Asia, Konami has confirmed their upcoming Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection for PS2. Retailing at $29.99, the package includes the original Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2 (director's cut) and Metal Gear Solid 3. It's not as sweet as Japan's MGS Anniversary Collection—a purchase that I considered momentarily in Akihabara before realizing that something might be lost during those conversations with Otacon in my non-native tongue. More »
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Another Metal Gear Character Joins SSBB
Thought Metal Gear's Snake was a enough for Super Smash Bros. Brawl? Wrong! MG's Frank Jaeger, the Gray Fox, is joining the fray as an Assist Trophy. (Assist Trophies help or hurt the summoner, but aren't playable.) Kinda unexpected for SSBB to get yet another Metal Gear Character. Hope the next one is Johnny Sasaki! There's not enough diarrhea in gaming these days.New Trophy [Smash Bros. DOJO!! Thanks Joe!]
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After speaking to Konami USA marketing VP Anthony Crouts earlier this year at Comic Con, he gave us hope for a stateside release of the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary Metal Gear Solid Collection, a package that stuffed six Metal Gear games and two bonus discs into a budget priced package. After hearing nothing about a release for the past three months, I bugged Kojima Productions producer Ryan Payton about the possibility of it shipping outside of Japan before Metal Gear Solid 4 hits. Our hopes? More measured, but Payton says it's still a possibility.
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Metal Gear Box Set Doubtful For 2007
After speaking to Konami USA marketing VP Anthony Crouts earlier this year at Comic Con, he gave us hope for a stateside release of the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary Metal Gear Solid Collection, a package that stuffed six Metal Gear games and two bonus discs into a budget priced package. After hearing nothing about a release for the past three months, I bugged Kojima Productions producer Ryan Payton about the possibility of it shipping outside of Japan before Metal Gear Solid 4 hits. Our hopes? More measured, but Payton says it's still a possibility.
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For all the gazillion characters in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, I am excited to have Snake beat the crap outta Mario. Or even, have Mario beat the crap outta Snake. I mean, who isn't?
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Is MGS4 Really Kojima's Last? Konami Begs to Differ.
Hideo Kojima has gone on record that MGS4 would be his last Metal Gear game. But will that really be the case? In one word, "no," at least according to Konami marketing VP Anthony Crouts.
I'm sure he's never going to let go of Metal Gear Solid—trust me. [Snake's] a big character, so as a franchise I think he'll always hold it near and dear to his heart...In one capacity or another, he will always be involved in the Metal Gear franchise.In one capacity or another, we've sort of stopped believing Kojima when he says he's done with Metal Gear. And apparently, so have his colleagues.
MGS4 Not Kojima's Last? [nextgeneration]
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On the show floor of Tokyo Game Show, Konami has 48 MGS4 booths setup. But to prep gamers for complex controls without unlimited play time, you first sit through a Disneyesque military briefing complete with big screens, fog machines and betrayals—all to entertain fans while they learn the fundamentals of playing MGS4. It's no one-on-one tutorial with Ryan Payton, but it's a close second.
MGS4 Live Action Briefing
On the show floor of Tokyo Game Show, Konami has 48 MGS4 booths setup. But to prep gamers for complex controls without unlimited play time, you first sit through a Disneyesque military briefing complete with big screens, fog machines and betrayals—all to entertain fans while they learn the fundamentals of playing MGS4. It's no one-on-one tutorial with Ryan Payton, but it's a close second.
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Justify Your MGS4
Up until this moment, Metal Gear fans and news outlets alike have been eagerly anticipating Kotaku's Justify segment on MGS4. Because while the game looks to be...OK...a buzzer would (for absolute certain) flush three years of effort down the toilet (and render PS3s everywhere completely useless, shut down most electronic devices within range and boil the seas).
...it's not our fault.
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Speaking with Konami reps at Comic Con today, I pestered marketing VP Anthony Crouts about Konami USA bringing over the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary Collection. Crouts confirmed that they're "considering it" with the sales team talking to retailers about potential interest in selling such a package. "Would it be the same package?" I asked. "Very similar," he responded.
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Konami Gives American Gamers Hope For Metal Gear 20th Anniversary Package
Speaking with Konami reps at Comic Con today, I pestered marketing VP Anthony Crouts about Konami USA bringing over the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary Collection. Crouts confirmed that they're "considering it" with the sales team talking to retailers about potential interest in selling such a package. "Would it be the same package?" I asked. "Very similar," he responded.
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From screenies to party stuff, here's a round-up of our Metal Gear coverage:
Snake punching some dude in the nuts
More, yes more, MGS4 screenies
Metal Gear Online screens
Ten real reasons why MGS4 is PS3 only
MGS4 gameplay
Snake take down
Metal Gear Online Closed Beta announced
Xbox Japan honcho at Metal Gear event
Party talk liveblog
Doors open at half past
New digs
Metal Gear Round Up
From screenies to party stuff, here's a round-up of our Metal Gear coverage: Snake punching some dude in the nuts
More, yes more, MGS4 screenies
Metal Gear Online screens
Ten real reasons why MGS4 is PS3 only
MGS4 gameplay
Snake take down
Metal Gear Online Closed Beta announced
Xbox Japan honcho at Metal Gear event
Party talk liveblog
Doors open at half past
New digs
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New Digs
Roppongi Station. It's a little before 5PM Tokyo time, and I've touched down in the newly gentrified section of the city known as Tokyo Midtown. Kojima Productions and Konami, previously located in the Mori Building in Roppongi Tower, relocated to Midtown earlier this year — along with pretty much everyone else in Roppongi Hills with some semblance of the hip and the cool. (Roppongi Hills, once the city's swank and swish, has sense been tarnished by internet company LiveDoor's white collar crime.) Or maybe Konami wanted its name on the side of a building.
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