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Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
According to this official US PlayStation blog post, the top Metal Gear Online clans are about to be invited to play Konami devs at the beta. For those lucky enough to ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, Japan, Konami, PS3 | 4 Comments »
According to this IGN story, between 80,000 and 100,000 units of the 40Gb MGS4 PS3 bundle are to be made available in Japan. No word on how many we're going to ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, Europe, Konami, PS3 | 9 Comments »
Play.com is listing the Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots box set thus confirming the rumours that surfaced yesterday. The Limited Edition will include: 6" Old Snake 'Olive Drab' action figure "The ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 3 Comments »
SCEJ's announced a "Welcome Box" MGS4 bundle for Japan, to include a 40Gb PS3, a DualShock 3, the game and a Sixaxis for 49,800 yen (£240). "They can't even give them ... Read more..Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
Just like Halo 3, Metal Gear Online – and most likely the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid 4: Sons of the Patriots – runs at a sub-HD resolution. Tech expert Quaz ... Read more..Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Action, Europe, Konami, PS3, PSN | 4 Comments »
According to this DarkZero story, the Metal Gear Online beta is now live in Europe. The test was delayed earlier this week due to huge demand, so it's great Konami's been ... Read more..Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 5 Comments »
This is either going to be great or a complete disaster: or both. Konami's released a version 1.2 patch of the Metal Gear Online beta client ahead of a scheduled ... Read more..Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 5 Comments »
A little late with this, but the BBFC granted Metal Gear Solid 4 a 15 certificate yesterday, and made no cuts. We've posted the info from the BBFC's site after the ... Read more..Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
We missed this last night, but the Konami ID registration site is now back up. There's a "quick registration" bit for the Metal Gear Online beta, should you not yet ... Read more..Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
We're not sure how anyone did this, but you can find seven movies of Metal Gear Online being played on N4G. We've put one of them after the link. They're from ... Read more..Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3, Sony | No Comments »
Sony's made a statement on the Metal Gear Online beta horror on its US blog, and from the sound of it the revised dates Konami published last night are now ... Read more..Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 4 Comments »
Konami's just updated the official MGO site to say the game's beta will now run from April 25 to May 11, delayed from April 21 to May 5. We would like ... Read more..Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 8 Comments »
Just got this from Konami: "The interest in the Metal Gear Online Premiere Beta is incredibly high, with an extremely large number of users downloading the software from the PlayStation Store ... Read more..Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3, PSN | 2 Comments »
In a statement on the Metal Gear Online beta's official site, Konami's delayed the test due to monster levels of demand. We would like to thank all players for their keen ... Read more..Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Konami, PS3 | 2 Comments »
According to this PS3F report, Konami's issued a statement on the subject of the short MGO codes for the US beta, saying all you have to do to get one ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 4 Comments »
Absolutely no surprises here. The ESRB has rated MGS4 as "Mature", meaning Americans will have to be 17 or over to buy it. Thanks, Kotaku. Read more..Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3, PSN, RPG, Shooter | 6 Comments »
The UK Playstation Store has just updated to include the highly anticipated and much discussed Metal Gear Online beta. The beta itself isn't scheduled go live until Monday 21, but now ... Read more..Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
According to this IGN report, some American gamers are complaining that their Konami IDs are only nine characters long, as opposed to the 12 needed to unlock the Metal Gear ... Read more..Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
It's proper slow tonight, so look at a few new screens of Snake sneaking around. They're on MetalGearSolid4.net. Can we have a bundle now please, SCEE? Read more..Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
Naughty people. You're in "direct breach of the KONAMI ID Basic Terms and Conditions of Use clauses 2.4 Prohibited Conduct," apparently. The following email has been sent out to all ... Read more..Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 2 Comments »
Konami has started sending out emails to westerners who obtained Japanese Kohami IDs with a view to getting on the Japanese Metal Gear Online beta cancelling their successful subscription. "We would ... Read more..Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3, PSN | 8 Comments »
According to this forum thread on the US PlayStation boards, the Metal Gear Online beta client has been released and is now available for download. US gamers need to have a ... Read more..Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
Sorry, we missed this yesterday. The official US PlayStation blog's got a load of new info on this week's Metal Gear Online beta, including character creation, how to install the ... Read more..Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Action, Australia, Konami, PS3 | 1 Comment »
According to this Gamespot report, Australians won't be able to simply download and play the MGO beta this week - as Europeans can - and will have to fill in ... Read more..Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Europe, PS3, Sony, That was the news | 12 Comments »
The Americans were pulling little colon-"o" emoticons, but the news was greeted with surly derision in Europe. SCEA announced last week that the MGS4 gunmetal PS3 was to launch in ... Read more..Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3, Sony | 12 Comments »
SCEE has told videogaming247 this morning that it's waiting for official word on whether or not Europe will receive the gunmetal special edition PS3 for the launch of Metal Gear ... Read more..Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Action, Europe, Konami, PS2 | 3 Comments »
Konami has confirmed to videogaming247 that anyone that can download the European beta for Metal Gear Online from April 17 onwards will be able to play: you don't have to ... Read more..Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3, PSN, Shooter | 4 Comments »
Konami Europe just announced that the Metal Gear Online beta - confirmed this morning to launch on April 17, will run from April 21 to May 6. We're reading this from ... Read more..Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Europe, PS3, PSN, PlayStation Store, Sony | 1 Comment »
SCEE just announced that the new PlayStation Store will launch in Europe on April 15. In addition, a load of new content will be made available on April 17, including the ... Read more..Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in America, Konami, PS3, Retail, Sony | 10 Comments »
According to the US PlayStation blog, the gunmetal PS3 created especially for MGS4 is going to be released in the US in limited quantities. "We are confirming that there will be ... Read more..Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
Konami US just confirmed that the MGS4 special edition will only be available at GameStop in the US when the title releases on June 12. The limited version will include different ... Read more..Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Action, Europe, PS3, PSN, Shooter | 4 Comments »
According to Eurogamer, Konami will announce plans for a European Metal Gear Online beta "shortly". The news follows last night's story that the company has now stopped non-Japanese residents signing up ... Read more..Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Action, Europe, Konami, PS3, Sony | 3 Comments »
A supposed PS3 schedule from Dutch retailer Bartsmit has shown what appears to be dates for DualShock 3 and a Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 pack for Europe. DualShock 3 is ... Read more..Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 13 Comments »
We're started to see something of a pattern here. The cover article from the latest PSM3 - a 12-page preview of Metal Gear Solid 4 based on a visit to ... Read more..Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Action, Europe, Konami, PS3 | 6 Comments »
A chap called Norman Gerlach, who works for PS3-Talk.de, has passed on an email from German press agency neu:kom which seems to confirm the legitimacy of the European MGS4 box ... Read more..Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Action, Europe, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
Apparently this is the final version of MGS4's box art, but no one seems to know if it's real or not. Apart from Konami Europe. And they're in bed now ... Read more..Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS2, PS3 | No Comments »
After the link. It's just a montage of Snake-related stuff from MGS's 20-year history, but it's Friday and it's dead as a doornail out there. Thanks, Kotaku. Read more..Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 2 Comments »
PSU has 16 of them. They look as you'd expect: grey and high resolution. And pretty cool, we have admit. Game releases globally in June. Read more..Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3, Sony | 13 Comments »
IGN hack Jeff Haynes has been to Konami in Japan and finished MGS4. As you can see here, in a piece entitled, "I'm the first American in the world to ... Read more..Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 3 Comments »
As far as we're aware, this is the single online interview Kojima's given ahead of the June launch of MGS4. We could news-ify it, but we won't. You should read ... Read more..Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Action, Japan, Konami, PS3, Sony | 26 Comments »
Sony's shown off the limited edition steel PS3 for its Japanese Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle. In all fairness, this does look pretty cool. There's approximately no chance of this ... Read more..Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
According to this, the Japanese MGO open beta is starting in Japan on April 14. The game has been in closed testing for several months. We still don't have any ... Read more..Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 3 Comments »
We had no idea it wasn't. According to this, this page of Japanese means that Metal Gear Solid 4 is being released on a 50Gb Blu-ray disc, as opposed to ... Read more..Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Development, Konami | 3 Comments »
According to this, MGS creator Hideo Kojima has started work on a "concept for a new game outside of the Metal Gear universe". The news apparently came from comment made ... Read more..Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
Here. If only the words "shots released" in that headline could have been replaced with "bundle announced for Europe". Then we could have all been happy. The game releases in ... Read more..Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 2 Comments »
According to this, MGS4 assistant producer Ryan Payton has said the motion-sensign capabilities of Sixaxis haven't been done to death in Konami's upcoming action game. "The trick is to use Sixaxis ... Read more..Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Action, Blu-ray, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
According to this (it's a bit sketchy, but plenty of sites are reporting it), MGS creator Hideo Kojima has claimed that Blu-ray indeed didn't offer enough space for MGS4. His comments ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | No Comments »
Here. The shots are taken from five different maps from the online starter pack, namely Ambush Alley, Gronznyj Grad, Midtown Maelstrom, Urban Ultimatum and Blood Bath. MGS4 was confirmed today ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Konami, PS3 | 14 Comments »
According to this, MGS4 will only include one language per region because of disc space. "Unfortunately because of disc space, we don't have the space to include other languages, other voice ... Read more..Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Action, Europe, Konami, PS3 | 2 Comments »
According to this, MGS4 will be released on June 12 in Europe as well as the US. The piece says it's from an announcement, but we haven't seen it yet. Update: ... Read more..
