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Metal Gear Database Coming Today

June 19, 2008 – 11:00 am

MGS4 Database

Do you love the Metal Gear storyline as much as we do? I haven’t been able to get enough to Solid Snake and his escapades since the early days on the NES. There’s a lot of material there and you can easily get confused. So Konami is stepping up and releasing the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Database.

The MGS4 Database is a free, downloadable interactive application that contains the official knowledge base of everything that is Metal Gear, reaching all the way back to the very beginning of the franchise. Including complete storylines, character profiles, relationship diagrams, and much more! The MGS4 database is a great way to catch up for someone new to Metal Gear, as well as a useful resource for any veteran of the series, with complete official details on every aspect of the intricate Metal gear lore.

Very, very cool. I’m definitely looking forward to playing around in this thing. A cool feature is that any spoilers from MGS4 will be “blacked out” until you beat the game (detected from your game save). Kudos Konami, especially with this being free.

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Metal Gear Solid 4 Opening Cinematic

June 13, 2008 – 4:00 pm

Now that the game is out, you can’t do saying that the opening cinematic is a spoiler. Pop the game in and check it out for yourself. If you haven’t picked it up yet, here’s what you can expect to see as the game starts. It’s pretty damn good with great background music.

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Metal Gear Online - Bad for Multiple Users

June 12, 2008 – 6:43 pm

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Do you have more than one person using your PS3? Do you each have your own PSN name and account on the system? You might be a bit upset to hear that Konami is exploiting these users by charging you to create multiple characters for Metal Gear Online.

You get one free character per PS3 and can purchase an additional 3 characters for $6.99. That’s a bit much, in my opinion. Why even have this limit? No other game does anything like this either offline or online. If you have your own system profile and your own PSN name, that should be enough. There should be no penalty to having multiple users of a PS3 in the same house. That’s essentially what this is, a penalty for those people.

So don’t waste your time with the ridiculous Konami ID creation for a second user. If you aren’t ready to shell out even more money than you just spent on the game, you’re stuck with one online character for everyone in your house to use. Bad move, Konami. Bad move.

[Update] For anyone disagreeing that you can have multiple characters per system, check out screenshots stating you can’t here. I also created a new PS3 user account and PSN name as well as a new Konami ID to test this.

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Metal Gear Retrospective - Part 6

June 12, 2008 – 2:00 pm

Today is the day. Finally. MGS4 is ours. Gametrailers has provided an awesome retrospective of all things Metal Gear. Here is the thrilling conclusion to the saga. They go back and provide all the canon that make up an entwining story and of the best in gaming history.

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Spain Might Not Get MGS4 Today as Planned

June 12, 2008 – 1:00 pm

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Today is the worldwide release of Metal Gear Solid 4. Our friends in Spain might not be so lucky and waiting might be in your future.

Do to a transport strike of various workers unions in Spain, shipments of the game may not reach their final destinations on time. You might need to hop across and pic up the game elsewhere if you really need it today. If not, encourage thoses unions to strike a deal to get Metal Gear on store shelves.

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Metal Gear Solid 4 - Cinematic Highlights

June 12, 2008 – 10:00 am

The day is here. Metal Gear Solid 4 is out all over the world. Go get your copy. In the meantime, why not check out some cinematic highlights of the game?

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Metal Gear Solid 4 - Rat Patrol Gameplay

June 11, 2008 – 7:00 pm

We’re only a few short hours away from the release of Metal Gear Solid 4. How about to celebrate, we all check out some gameplay footage. You get a mix of sneaking and shooting in this clip.

Who all is picking this one up at midnight?

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Metal Gear Retrospective Part 5

June 11, 2008 – 10:00 am

I guess I was wrong when I called part 4 the last installment. Here we see part 5, which takes is through some of the not as good Metal Gear games, like Ghost Babel and AC!D. Still cool to see what went on, especially since you most likely never touched these titles.

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Metal Gear Takes a Shot at Xbox 360

June 10, 2008 – 4:00 pm

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Some may say this is a spoiler. If you don’t want to know ANYTHING about Metal Gear Solid 4, don’t watch this video. You’ve been warned.

Now that we have that out of the way, check how Hideo Kojima’s masterpiece takes a rip at the Xbox 360 and praises the PS3. Pretty funny. Just so we don’t accidentally spoil anything for people, we’re going to link you to the video instead of embedding it. Check it out.

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Rumor: Metal Gear Solid Coming to XBLA

June 10, 2008 – 1:00 pm

Metal Gear Solid 1 Cover

Start the rumor machines. All across the internets today, people are claiming that they have sources that indicate Metal Gear Solid, the first adventure of Solid Snake(excluding his NES days) is coming to XBLA. There are many reasons why this is bullshit. Here are some that may make it happen. First, the 350mb ceiling doesn’t apply. You can download Ninja Gaiden Black and thats close to 5 gb. Second, MS made MGS for Windows. Third, its already out on the PSN store in Japan.  Shenanigans or authentic?

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