Beats me, What, you thought I was gonna tell you on the jump? Siliconera noticed the "Piece Walker" portal, but has no clue, either. The only links on the page are to Konami, Kojima Productions, and the Peace Walker demo.

METAL GEAR SOLID "PIECE" WALKER WEBSITE [Konami via Siliconera]

The news post dated Friday - no link, nothing further - said simply: "A puzzle for FINAL FANTASY XIII fans! Solve this anagram to find out what lies ahead: A Henchmen Inventor Tent Unto. Check back Monday for the answer!"

We can check back on Friday, actually, because a couple users on the finalfantasy-xiii.net forums unscrambled it to say "Announcement Nov Thirteenth." No word if that's the game's long-awaited North American release date. Guess you'll have to check back then.

Square-Enix Anagram Solved, Final Fantasy XIII Announcement Coming November 13th [ripten]

The ad, apparently for a fake movie, declares "Liberty City, It's Over!" implying, naturally, that we're all done here. "Next stop," it says, and that portion appears to be torn out, except for the word "Seagull." I think it looks like the name of a hotel, but who knows.

To the left of that is "Opens March Everywhere," and your guess is as good as mine as to what that means. But Rockstar knows what it's doing here, it's getting people to talk, and we've taken the bait.

(A picture of the entire "ad" is at the link below.)

Liberty City, It's over! Next stop? [GTA4.Net via VG247]

Media Molecule and Sony have been teasing the Ghostbusters downloadable content for LittleBigPlanet for a good week now. While we're still waiting for the big reveal as of this writing, visitors to the Japanese LBP site already know which costumes will be available for purchase next week.

Lucky Japanese people. I sure hope they reveal the outfits in North America soon, so I can be all excited too.

Squiggly Lines I Cannot Understand [Japanese LittleBigPlanet Website - Thanks TheAlp]

What does it tell us? About as much as the print ad running in the newest issue of Famitsu, showing only a grassy field under a thick blanket of clouds, with a fence and sparse forest on the right and left, respectively. No reveal date, as shown the print teaser.

The only other real information is provided via the site's meta keywords, which include "Hideo Kojima, MGS, METAL GEAR, NEXT, game, konami, kojima game, KJP, Kojima Production." The site refers to the product as only "Kojima Production NEXT."

Whatever the Metal Gear team's next project is, already pledged to be announced at E3, it's almost guaranteed to have clouds.

Update: Reader Gary noticed the above bitmap squirreled away in the teaser site's Flash movie. The first cloud icon on the far left is the current "loading" image, but it would appear that Kojima Productions has more of those icons planned.

If we were joining in on theorizing what they would mean, if anything, we'd speculate that the lightning storm, sun and exclamation point could hint further at more Metal Gear. Respectively, those could be references to Metal Gear Solid 2 star Raiden, Sunny from Metal Gear Solid 4 and the series' trademark alert icon.

Of course, this may be nothing more than a red herring from Kojima Productions. But the Metal Gear references shouldn't be ignored.

Kojima Production "NEXT" [Konami]

The teaser consists of little more than a short Flash animation, rendered in a hand drawn style noticeably similar to that of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions—focusing on the concealed blade Altair used in the original—and his Vitruvian Man. The final drawing hints at some sort of winged contraption that may indicate we'll be doing some flying (or at least some floating/humming of the Batman theme song) in the sequel.

The teaser also notes that we'll see more in the upcoming issue of Game Informer, with the date April 16, 2009 presumably indicating when the games mag is allowed to lift the veil on Ubisoft's sequel.

Given the Italian pedigree of the teaser, we'd think those rumored details of Assassin's Creed 2 taking place in Venice are sounding more and more likely. We're sure to know by next Thursday. Keep an eye peeled!

Assassin's Creed 2 Teaser [Official Site - thanks, Andrew!]
Assassin's Creed 2 Teaser [YouTube - thanks, Gavin!]

In case the trailer included in the Japanese version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time weren't enough, this new teaser site should provide more than enough proof that Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers for the Wii is still a going concern. The top right corner of the website currently features the aforementioned trailer, along with the wallpaper seen above, in sizes up to 1920 x 1200. There are also two grayed-out items, "It's Gonna Be A Long Night" and "Public Spectacle", with the words "More Visits, More Movies" flashing over them. You know what this means. We're going to have to visit the hell out of the page. Here's a link to kick things off.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers [Official Website]

It's definitely a teaser trailer; I'm just not sure what it is trying to tease. Arguably it's for Colin McRae: Dirt 2, the off-road and rally racing title from Codemasters, but I don't really feel that's what is being teased here. Can't quite put my finger on it. I suppose if I could I'd probably be too busy to write this. All I know for sure is that this is the last place I'd expect to have to use the NSFW tag.

Oh, and feel free to stop the clip when things go black. I think my video conversion software was just as confused as I was.

There's not much to see at the "There's Something In The Sea" site outside of photo of the Big Daddy doll (seen in the first BioShock 2 trailer), a newspaper clipping detailing the kidnapping of 7-year-old Maura Clune, and a hand-written letter speculating on the kidnapping from a J. Lynch. These documents are pinned to a map with the date "2/20/67" scrawled next to the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.

2K Games has begun teasing the game in another fashion, as well.

Reader Dominique sent us the above snapshot of a "There's Something In The Sea" promo poster, which teases the same red light described in the account of Maura Clune's kidnapping.

We're sure to learn more soon, as BioShock 2's release date looms ever closer.

There's Something In The Sea [Official Site - thanks, Dominique!]

So, it looks like there will be a proper unveiling next week, but of what? The NeoGAF forum folks seem to think that the 'Dragon' domain name and the music in the flash movie point to a Dragon Force remake, but that music — go-to music man Yuzo Koshiro is said to be involved — as sounds a bit too retro for a Saturn game.

Any ideas? Kotaku Retrogaming ID Powers: ACTIVATE!

Mysterious SEGA RPG page countdown [NeoGAF]

Perhaps George Broussard forgets that some of us have been waiting to play, even see Duke Nukem Forever for longer than a lot of new gamers have been playing games. Heck not only was my son not yet born, I wasn't married when the game was first announced. It's been ten years folks, well nearly.

Broussard seemed a little taken aback by the reaction to his announcement last night that there would be a "teaser video" hitting today around noon Central Time. So taken aback, in fact, that he decided to amend his statement.

Guys just to manage expectations...

This is a teaser. It's not a full blown trailer like the 2001 trailer (but something like that is coming). I tried to be clear about that in the message board post, so just bear in mind that it's a teaser :)

Enjoy.

Update [3D Realms]

We know only a few details about the Namco Bandai's Fragile for the Wii. Development is being handled by tri-Crescendo—they of Baiten Kaitos and Eternal Sonata fame—and it's packed with fabulous anime hairstyles. Plus, that flashlight from Fragile's teaser clip? It just screams Wii remote controls. One less mini-game collection for serious Wii gamers.

The Legend of Zelda (2008) [zelda2008.com]
[Thanks, Karl]

"The team at Smoking Gun has worked passionately together for over 7 years, building teams that have created the most critically acclaimed games in their genre." said John Johnson CEO and Creative Director, "As the industry evolves so do the ways that people interact with video games. With our collective input Smoking Gun will be at the forefront of producing innovative best-selling titles, that really push the envelop further than we've gone before",

Premier Development Studio Smoking Gun Interactive Formed By The Creators Of The Award Winning Company Of Heroes

Creative forces behind the highest rated strategy game* of all time reveal new development studio

VANCOUVER, CA (June 4, 2007) - The creators of the critically acclaimed game Company of Heroes today announced the formation of their new interactive entertainment software development studio, Smoking Gun Interactive Inc. The development studio will focus on creating innovative award winning cross platform games based on original or company owned intellectual property.

Smoking Gun Interactive Inc, has been founded by John Johnson, Angie Radwan-Pytlewski and Drew Dunlop all former senior staff from Relic Entertainment. The studio is led by CEO and Creative Director John Johnson who was previously the Director of Franchise Development and Producer on Company of Heroes, while Angie Radwan-Pytlewski served as Art Director and Drew Dunlop as Lead Programmer on the critically acclaimed real-time strategy hit.

"The team at Smoking Gun has worked passionately together for over 7 years, building teams that have created the most critically acclaimed games in their genre." said John Johnson CEO and Creative Director, "As the industry evolves so do the ways that people interact with video games. With our collective input Smoking Gun will be at the forefront of producing innovative best-selling titles, that really push the envelop further than we've gone before",

Working with Smoking Gun Interactive are key personnel from the team that created Company of Heroes including the Audio Director Crispin Hands and Story and Script Writer Duane Pye. Collectively the management and executive team have over 30 years of experience and have worked on best-selling franchises including Company of Heroes™, Impossible Creatures™, Homeworld™, Need for Speed™, NHL™, NBA Live™ and FIFA Soccer™. With their collective experience in leading passionate teams and creating award winning products, Smoking Gun is destined to become one of the industry's leading premier development studios.

For updated news and additional company information, please visit the official Smoking Gun Interactive site www.smokingguninc.com

This is Smoking Gun...

I'm with the Fallout forum regulars here...this is just too similar to the Capitol building concept from three weeks ago to really be all that interesting. They should have ended it with the spectacular piece from last week, which highlighted the 50's vibe that we know and love.

And that's it for the concept art. Now we just have seven days til the extremely important teaser trailer, as the more rabid Fallout followers sit by their computers, lighters poised under Molotov rag wicks as they watch for the slightest misstep. You can do it Bethesda. I believe in you. Michael Fahey

Fallout 3 [Bethesda Softworks]

Gearing up for the announcement about a new game during the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in South Korea (19-20 May), the Blizzard homepage now has a timeline of notable games at the bottom, from Warcraft: Orcs and Humans (1994) to WoW (2004), but a big fat question mark for the future.

If their intention was to whip fanboys into a frenzy, I'm sure they'll succeed. Maggie Greene

Blizzard Entertainment