Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes debut trailer shows off the Fox Engine
Penny Arcade Expo attendees were treated to the very first footage of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Running on a PC with specs comparable to current-gen consoles, Ground Zero is the first game to show off Kojima Productions' new Fox Engine--and boy, is it a beaut.
READ MORE >Morning Caffeinated! -- Greenlight mail, ladies of the evening, and ArenaNet kudos
Ramblings and musings of occasional significance to the Shacknews audience. This is the morning edition for August 31, 2012. Topics include: Greenlight will mean more mail for journalists, will Whore of the Orient get past the ESRB, a pat on the back for ArenaNet. and Wake u...
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see all 12 commentsMetal Gear Solid movie back on with Avi Arad
There have been several attempts at a Metal Gear Solid movie over the years, and one terrifying prank involving Uwe Boll, but one's properly in production now at Columbia Pictures. Avi Arad, who's produced every Marvel comic book movie of the past two decades--both good and ...
READ MORE >Open-world Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes revealed
In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Metal Gear series, Kojima Productions and Konami announced the first open world game in the franchise, the Fox Engine-driven Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes.
READ MORE >"to be fair, MGS2 is fucking nuts. MGS1 was so cohesive and well put together, and then MGS2 ..."
see all 11 commentsMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance PC edition will be considered after launch
When Konami originally announced Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance at E3 2009 under the more sensible name of Metal Gear Solid: Rising, it planned to release a PC edition. This was casually dropped when the game was reborn
READ MORE >"MGS1 and 2 were both on PC. Both were decent ports. I think 2 had some problems but i never ..."
see all 7 commentsMetal Gear Solid HD Collection goes downloadable this month
If for some reason you didn't want the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, and only wanted to buy each game piecemeal, now's your chance.
READ MORE >"Too many people bitched and griped about the excellent Twin Snakes so you can pretty much count ..."
see all 5 commentsMetal Gear Solid 4 trophy patch also adds installation option
Next week's trophy patch for MGS4 adds a new option: the ability to install all of the game data to your hard drive, removing those pesky mid-game breaks.
READ MORE >"Can we get a patch that adds in the original MGS theme? It's absence is jarring."
see all 3 commentsMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance trailer teaches slicing and dicing
The big gimmick of awkwardly-named, action-packed off-shoot Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is Raiden's ability to carefully prune enemies of undesirable body parts with precision strokes of his sword. Have a gander at how it works in a new snippet from the game's tutorial.
READ MORE >"Looks cool, want to try it out for sure, Platinum Games have skillz so it should be good."
see all 7 commentsMetal Gear Solid 4 getting trophy patch
Four years later, Metal Gear Solid 4 is finally getting a patch to add trophies.
READ MORE >"Really? I hope you're not serious. Why should Trophies affect whether or not you play a game? ..."
see all 29 commentsMetal Gear Solid HD for Vita isn't HD
Pixel-counters have noticed that Metal Gear Solid HD Collection on the Vita isn't running on the system's native resolution.
READ MORE >"Peace Walker is great. Just make sure you have someone else to play it with."
see all 7 commentsHideo Kojima 'not yet finished with Solid Snake'
While little is known about Metal Gear Solid 5, it appears likely that it will somehow involve its iconic gravely-voiced star, Snake. "We have not yet finished with Solid Snake," designer Hideo Kojima said.
READ MORE >"MGS4 wasn't too bad. There was a ridiculous amount of cut scenes that for sure but the gameplay ..."
see all 9 commentsMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance DLC could offer new playable character
Metal Gear Rising's DLC may let you play as a new character. Old Snake? Gray Fox, anyone?
READ MORE >Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance preview
I cut clean through the top half of a man's head. It was a genuinely uncomfortable sight--and only the beginning of the hyper-violence featured in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
READ MORE >"Agree, I am dying to play it, been watching its progress for a long time."
see all 13 commentsMetal Gear Rising coming 2013, demo included in Zone of the Enders HD Collection
The symbiotic relationship between Metal Gear and Zone of the Enders continues. The HD collection will include a demo for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
READ MORE >"Hell, Nintendo doesn't even do that much. They just charge you for a rom image."
see all 6 commentsMetal Gear Solid HD sneaks onto Vita on June 12
If you often find yourself with nothing to do whilst hiding in a box, soon you'll be able to play the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection on your Vita. It'll launch on June 12, Konami has announced.
READ MORE >"It is Substance and Subsistence. The Substance extras are excellent, highly recommended. Never ..."
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"Well, of course it's possible in current game engines. It's just not possible in current engines ..."
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