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Snake’s quarter-century celebrations aren’t over yet. Retailers have outed a fresh surprise from Kojima Productions. Several online stores, including ShopTo and Zavvi, have posted listings for Metal Gear Solid 4: 25th Anniversary Edition, a new SKU for the acclaimed 2008 release. There is some debate as to what the price …

Metal Gear Solid 4 will at last receive a patch that will introduce support for PS3’s Trophy system. Andriasang reports that the news was broken by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima in an interview in this week’s issue of Japanese weekly Famitsu. Trophies will be integrated into disc copies of …

Konami has posted its fiscal results for the six months to September – with profits slipping 81.3 per cent to $24.6 million year-on-year. Revenues for the period stood at 113.9 billion ($1.26 billion) – down 22.5 percent from the 146.9 billion ($1.63 billion) the firm posted in H1 last year, …

Konami has reported a 90 per cent increase in net income for the six months ended September 30th – due to strong sales of Metal Gear Solid 4 for PS3. Net income for the period stood at 12 billion yen ($124 million) compared to 6.3 billion yen for the same …

Microsoft’s Xbox Live boss has told MCV that Xbox 360 definitely has the power to handle” Metal Gear Solid 4 – and talked of his admiration for Kojima-san’s masterpiece”. John Schappert, the firm’s corporate vice-president of Live, Software and Services, said that he would love to see the game come …

‘Sensational’ sales of Metal Gear Solid 4 pushed Konami’s Q1 net profits up 32 per cent year on year, the company has reported. Net income stood at 5.7 billion Japanese Yen ($52.57m) for the three-month period to June 30th – which compared favourably with last year’s post of 3.9 billion …

Following fervent speculation that Metal Gear Solid 4 would follow Final Fantasy in becoming a PlayStation-associated brand that moves onto Xbox 360, SCEA CEO Jack Tretton has argued no other console could handle the technical demands of Konami’s the Konami title. Speaking to assembled press at the platform holder’s conference …

Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is sitting proudly atop three of the leading sales charts in Europe this week. For the week ending June 22nd, the stealth-action classic is No.1 in Spain, Germany and Sweden. According to Next-Gen.biz, MGS4 has already sold more than one million …

Konami has announced that MGS: Guns Of The Patriots has sold a million copies in Europe since its release on June 12th – and that it has shipped many more SKUs to its retail partners. The firm also confirmed that 25,000 copies of the the Limited Edition were made available …

High-brow newspaper New York Times has dedicated an extensive feature to hidden meanings in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of the Patriots. Featuring interviews with representatives from the likes of Kotaku, MTV and 1UP, the piece discusses the history of the series and describes Solid Snake as ‘James Bond meets …