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With Metal Gear Solid: Rising set to gets its big coming out party at next month's VGAs, series creator Hideo Kojima has told Official PlayStation Magazine that series veterans might not initially fall in love with the game's new direction

“If somebody thinks ‘I love Snake’ and just really wants traditional stealth gameplay and that experience, then it may be hard to get into Rising,” he told..

To be fair, the easiest way to complete Konami's Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is to add in MGS4 and a copy of the original PlayStation classic

You can make the package sweeter by tossing it all in a steel tin and saying, "Seventy quid, please." And that's pretty much exactly what Zavvi has done. The Metal Gear Solid Ultimate HD Collection is limited to just 4,000 copies worldwide, and..

Hideo Kojima has ruled out and confirmed a series of rumours in a quick-fire interview on the latest Kojima Productions podcast

The news, picked up by Andriasang, rules out the possibility of a Metal Gear Solid 5 announcement, while also discrediting rumours of an MGS4 port for NGP. In addition, Kojima used the quick-fire question round to confirm that he has "something big" planned for..

.. Well, kudos to Konami for supporting their game we suppose. We'd forgotten Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots even had an online component, but here's a new patch for that very mode. The update's able to detect "fraudulent" connections which may slow the game down. Of course, the bigger question is whether anyone's actually still playing Metal Gear Online. Konami patch notes:..

Metal Gear Solid 4 pre-dated trophies

Given its status as one of the best games in the PlayStation 3's library, many fans have been clamouring for a trophy update ever since Sony announced the rewards system. Despite frequent reports to the contrary, Metal Gear Solid 4 has never received trophies. That could be about to change. PlayStation LifeStyle's snapped a photo of the Greatest Hits edition of..

What's the one thing you've always wanted in Metal Gear Solid 4? Trophies, right

Yeah, us too. 3D support would just be the icing on the cake, right? Totally. Well it nearly happened. In fact, agonisingly Kojima's revealed that he "wanted" to release a "Complete" version of the title. Sadly, he just doesn't have the time. We know. “I wanted to make a ‘Complete Version’ with..

How many Playstation 3 systems are there out in the Japanese wilderness? It's a question we often ask ourselves

Thankfully, as of April 11th, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has the answer. Over 5 million. That's right - over 5 million consoles have been sold to Japanese gamer folks. The biggest domestic games to date are Final Fantasy XIII, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Yakuza 4. Worryingly, of those three..

What do you do if you have pre-launch copy of 3D Dot Game Heroes

Duhhh, the answer's obvious - recreate Metal Gear Solid 4's protagonist, Old Snake, in the character editor of course. You guys are so slow.

The third-person shooter-esque controls from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots were quite a step-forward for the franchise

But Kojima still wants to give players a choice between the new and the traditional with the upcoming PSP title Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. In the game, players will be able to pick between the "action" controls from Portable Ops or "shooter"..

If you've been waiting on picking up Metal Gear Solid 4, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 then perhaps it's time you picked them up

They've just gone platinum, i.e. cheap. All four titles can now be bought in garish packaging for £19.99. If you've just jumped into the world of Playstation 3 via the recent price drop, we actually recommend you buy all four games.

Hear this Metal Gear Solid fans: Kojima Productions know you want trophies

As part of the latest Kojima Productions podcast, the company talk a little bit about the word on every MGS-avid's lips; trophies."I just wanna tell everybody out there right now that your voices are being heard and that we're not ignoring you. We hear everything that you are saying. It's just that we can't say anything..

Good morning USA

Just a quick note to let you know there are a bunch of new "Greatest Hits" titles available for your loving Playstation 3 console. The repackaged titles, which cost just $29.99, are a great opportunity to catch-up with some of the big releases you have may have missed earlier in the PS3's life. Army of Two, Electronic Arts Battlefield: Bad Company, Electronic Arts Devil..

You know what Metal Gear Online has been missing? Bikinis

Thank goodness Kojima-san and his Konami crew have considered it worthwhile to add such neccessities to the game as way of a celebration for its first birthday. You'll need the GENE update to download the bikinis. Check them in action after the jump. Big bums indeed.

What better way to spend your time in Metal Gear Online than racing

The race mission will have two teams running through checkpoints after tracking down their frog and duck KEROTAN and GA-KO items (seriously!). Presumably the match is won by the team who passes through enough checkpoints mascot in hand. It's a pretty novel mode for a shooter. The Patriot perk will also be offered to the week's best..

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has been labelled ‘Most Valuable Person’ during the 2008 Famitsu Awards in Tokyo today

According to a snippet from Developmag, the award honours "the person who has contributed to the growth of the games industry, not limited to developers". In other words Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots was really, really bloody good. Old Snake took the award..

A quick heads up for our Japanese readers, if you haven't played MGS4: GOTP yet, you can now get the priveledge for much cheaper

¥3,990 to be precise. What's stopping you Japanese gamers. Pick up this fine piece of game now.

Another game given away by a job description page

Konami are looking for people to help with "new developments" in the Metal Gear series, specifically for home consoles. Are you ready for a new Metal Gear game, readers?

Konami have just announced that last years hit sneak-em-up Metal Gear Solid 4 is to go "Platinum"

The "Platinum" range, which rewards popular titles with a re-release, already caters hit titles such as Assassin's Creed and Uncharted. Metal Gear Solid 4 shipped 3 million copies on it's release in June 2008.

The more we see of Kojima's work the more we consider him a mythical being as opposed to human flesh like the rest of us

So it's interesting to see what kind of movies inspires such an inspirational mind. Listed below are the top movies that inspired his Metal Gear Solid franchise: The Guns of Navarone The Great Escape Goldfinger 2001: A Space Odyssey Planet of the Apes (original work) The Deer..