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Metal Gear Solid Mobile On Verizon

Mike Fahey — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:40:08 MDT

Metal Gear Solid Mobile? Why post that? Well I figured that thousands of you out there plunked down $600 for a console on the mere promise of a new Metal Gear Solid game, so you might just be interested in a mobile version, especially one that only costs $10.99 ($4.99 monthly). Available today exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers (dammit), Metal Gear Solid Mobile is a full on MGS game, promising dramatic 3D art and camera work never-before-seen in a mobile game. Along with your standard stealth espionage action, the game also utilizes camera phone functionality, allowing you to take real world pictures and use them in the in-game camo system. It sounds pretty damn nifty, and the game has already won two awards at the 2008 International Mobile Gaming Awards. Unfortunately I am not a Verizon customer, or I'd let you know how it played. I'll just be hiding under this tiny little box until my carrier is deemed worthy.

METAL GEAR SOLID® MOBILE NOW AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY TO VERIZON WIRELESS CUSTOMERS
Popular Video Game Franchise Hits Verizon Wireless Phones With
3D Graphics and Original Game Play
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., a leading developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties, today announced Metal Gear Solid® Mobile is available for purchase exclusively through Verizon Wireless.

Metal Gear Solid Mobile is an award-winning game, having recently received the Grand Prix and Operator's Choice awards at the 2008 International Mobile Gaming Awards. Metal Gear Solid Mobile features never-before-seen dramatic 3D art displays and camera work that greatly surpass the current standard of mobile games and allows players to shift the viewpoint from first to third person and to control a variety of weapons. The game also takes advantage of the camera functionality - for example, Verizon Wireless customers can use their camera phones to capture images and the game will incorporate the image colors into the players' camouflage system.

Designed by the same team behind the Metal Gear Solid console games, Kojima Productions, and developed in conjunction with Ideaworks3D and utilizing its Airplay™ 3.5 SDK, Metal Gear Solid Mobile is an original game designed specifically for the mobile platform. Players face the same extreme tension of solitary infiltration that fans of the classic tactical espionage action game have come to expect from the Metal Gear Solid series, previously released to the PlayStation® and PlayStation®2.

Verizon Wireless customers can purchase Metal Gear Solid Mobile in the Get Fun & Games shopping aisle in the Get It Now® virtual store. The game is available for $4.99 monthly access or $10.99 for unlimited use purchase. Verizon Wireless customers can get Metal Gear Solid Mobile on more than 20 popular Get It Now-capable phones, including the Voyager™ by LG and the LG VX8700. Download charges for Get It Now applications vary and airtime or megabyte charges may apply when browsing, downloading and using certain applications. Customers need a Get It Now-enabled handset and Verizon Wireless digital service to access the Get It Now virtual store.

For more information on Verizon Wireless products and services, customers can visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or visit www.verizonwireless.com. For more information about Metal Gear Solid Mobile, please visit www.konamimobile.com.

Guitar Hero Rocks III Out On Verizon Wireless

Mike Fahey — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:20:10 MST

Now there's an easy way to pull yourself away from your Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock long enough to go see what this whole outdoors business is about, provided you're a Verizon Wireless customer. Activision, Verizon, and Hands-On Mobile announce the immediate availability of Guitar Hero III Mobile - a Verizon exclusive. This mobile version of the game features 15 tracks from its console cousins, including "Rock You Like A Hurricane" by the Scorpions and the Red Hot Chili Peppers love ballad "Suck My Kiss". With four different guitars and three unique venues, it'll make going to the bathroom at work seem like your own personal rock concert, it it doesn't already. I don't want to know. Anyway, Verizon users with Get It Now capable phones can snag the game for $4.49 monthly access, or lay out the big bucks and play it forever for $11.99. As an AT&T Wireless subscriber, all I have to say is "poop".

Verizon Wireless Customers can Rock Out With the Guitar Hero® III Mobile Game
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 20, 2007 - Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, Hands-On Mobile, Inc., the world's leading developer of connected games and applications, and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the exclusive availability of the Guitar Hero III mobile game to Verizon Wireless customers.

Guitar Hero III Mobile allows rockers to jam anytime, anywhere to the same stunning graphics, high-quality audio and addictive gameplay that fans of the wildly popular console series have come to expect. Featuring four authentic guitars and three venues, the game challenges players to hit number keys in sync with colored notes that appear on a scrolling fret board.

Guitar Hero III for mobile offers 15 tracks from the Guitar Hero® console series, including "Suck My Kiss" (by Red Hot Chili Peppers) and "Rock You Like A Hurricane" (as made famous by The Scorpions), and offers Verizon Wireless customers the opportunity to expand their repertoire with new song packs that become available each month.

Verizon Wireless customers can purchase Guitar Hero III Mobile in the Get Fun & Games shopping aisle in the Get It Now® virtual store. It is available for $4.49 monthly access or $11.99 for unlimited use purchase. Verizon Wireless customers can get Guitar Hero III Mobile on an array of popular Get It Now-capable phones, including the MOTORIZR™ Z6tv, Chocolate™ by LG and the Verizon Wireless Gleam™ by Samsung. Download charges for Get It Now applications vary and airtime or megabyte charges may apply when browsing, downloading and using certain applications. Customers need a Get It Now- enabled handset and Verizon Wireless digital service to access the Get It Now virtual store.

For more information about Guitar Hero III Mobile please visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

Guitar Hero Mobile Might Actually Be Good?

Mark Wilson — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:40:21 MDT

Mobile phone gaming is not just bad; it's horrendous. And with the ease of slipping a DS in your pocket, who cares? Let the sheep pay too much for crappy phone gaming. But we can't help but to get a little interested over the prospect of Verizon's exclusive Guitar Hero Mobile...if only for the novelty. But according to CNET's early hands-on, it might actually be—dare we say—good?

Playing virtual guitar has gotten easier with a reduction from five keys on the console game's peripheral guitar to three on the phone. Users can choose whichever keypad row feels best.

This game has a lot going for it—easy fretting, satisfying animation, and killer sound quality. Guitar Hero Mobile uses PMD audio for the BREW platform, which preserves the melody, harmony, vocals, and cacophonous ding every time you miss.

But are the buttons of my phone responsive and separated enough to really shred? Probably not. But then again, the "tool factor" has been reduced for public consumption. Look for it this December. 'Guitar Hero Mobile' sneak peek: It rocks [via aeropause]

Verizon 's Fiberoptic Halflife 2 Tournament

egauger — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:40:00 MDT

Interweb and cellular provider Verizon is sponsoring a Half Life 2: Death Match tournament to promote FiOS, their new fiber optic internet service:

Register now and get a key to activate Half Life 2: Deathmatch for free to play during the tournament! And just for registering you'll also get Half Life 2: Lost Coast to try out while you compete. The tournament begins 6/15 and ends 7/29. The top 8 players will be brought to Los Angeles to compete in the finals over a live FiOS connection where one gamer will get $100,000.

This tournament has the worst slogan since McDonald's launched their sneering "i'm lovin' it" campaign: "Speed wins. Win with speed." Hurrrrrr.

So $100k if you win; free HL2 time if you don't. Not too shabby. The tournament's lower levels will be played online, which I imagine will allow some cheaters into the finals. The big deal is that the finals will be played over a FiOS connection. If any Kotaku readers make it that far, I'll expect a full report on what the latency is like on this newfangled veeblefetzer. Eliza Gauger

Details here. [FiOS Grand]