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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 …
Read More »Trophy patch incoming for Metal Gear Solid 4
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 …
Read More »SCEE confirms Platinum additions
As reported by MCV last month, SCEE is to add a number of new titles to its PS3 Platinum software range. The new titles joining the line-up are Guerrilla Games’ Killzone 2, Evolution’s Motorstorm: Pacific Rift and Insomniac’s Resistance: 2 in the 19.99 catalogue shortly in the UK. The exact …
Read More »MGS4 gets Platinum release
Publisher Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is to become the latest title to receive a Platinum release on PS3 – meaning that from March 5th consumers will be able to pick it up for 24.95. Konami’s epic, which was developed by Kojima Productions, has shipped over …
Read More »Is latest Metal Gear teaser a 360 hint?
Konami has launched an ambiguous teaser site concerning its plans for the highly popular and lucrative Metal Gear Solid series – and many are seeing it as the strongest hint yet that PS3 hit Metal Gear Solid 4 could be on the way to Xbox 360. At present the new …
Read More »MGS4 boosts Konami income
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 …
Read More »360 can handle MGS4, says Microsoft
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 …
Read More »MGS4 pushes Konami Q1 profits up 32%
‘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 …
Read More »E3 08: MGS4 on 360 impossible, says Sony
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 …
Read More »EURO CHARTS: MGS4 rules the roost
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 …
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