There’s no doubt in our minds that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is going to blow our expectations, and the competition away when it releases next year. However, knowing Kojima, he has something surprising that we haven’t seen before to excite fans of Peace Walker.

When talking to Famitsu Magazine, Kojima took the time to tease at a “major” feature that will be unveiled in Peace Walker. “There is a system which haven’t been revealed yet, and it will be a surprise,” Kojima said to the magazine, reports PS3 Center.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is due out in 2010 exclusively for the PlayStation Portable. And with this news, we’re convinced that Peace Walker be worthy of a purchase when it releases, once again, in 2010.

When grasping his hands on Project Natal for the first time, Konami‘s Hideo Kojima was caught smitten by Microsoft‘s motion sensing technology, he revealed during a Q&A session at the Tokyo Game Show. He told the crowd that he was shocked by the experience of Natal. “I had to restrain myself from telling everyone I met,” Kojima said.

He believes Natal will raise the bar in all aspects of entertainment and allow people to be connected with their machines in a way that we’ve encountered only in science fiction – I think that he was thinking around the lines of Minority Report, or something like that. Even people who are not gamers can be a part of it because Natal is based on intuition, something that will take video games to a whole new level of interactivity.

“Using Natal, I’d like to come up with a completely new game that no one has seen before. I know I have lots of fans that are loyal to me, and I don’t want to leave them behind. So maybe I can come up with a car that can fly, so my fans can follow me…metaphorically speaking, of course,” Kojima said during the Panel.

[Konami's Kojima, Capcom's Inafune, Sega's Nagoshi discuss Project Natal's potential via GameSpot]

When talking to IGN, Hideo Kojima confirmed that he has several titles under development over at Kojima Productions, in which one of them he has wanted to do for a very long time.

When talking about the teams newest game engine, Kojima started to list all of the titles under development at Kojima Productions. ”First of all I can name Metal Gear Solid Rising – that’s going to be on the preparation list. Also there’s a new title that we haven’t announced that I’ve wanted to make for a long time – that’s on the list as well. And also a couple of other new titles we’re preparing now,” he said.

“The one that I said that I’ve been wanting to make – this is a new franchise and a new title. For the other couple of titles, it could be something that you always wanted to have. It could be, or it could be something else. It’s a matter of the timing of when we can get it out,” he continued at a future point during the interview.

In an interview published by the Japanese magazine, Dengeki: PlayStation, Hideo Kojima explained why he took the role of game designer on Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, despite his previous claims that he would play a smaller role in the development of Metal Gear games after Metal Gear Solid 4.

“At first, I was just going to create the overall guidelines and concepts for the project, and leave it in the hands my excellent staff. I was going to have a hand in the project as a producer, and make titles other than MGS. But, I set the game in the South American(sic) country of Costa Rica and created a story with themes about nuclear deterrence and the cold war. It looked as if it might be very confusing to young people, because of generational differences. So, in the end I finally said, “I’ll do it.”

The only time Kojima directly referenced the gameplay of MGS: Peace Walker during the interview was when discussing the trailer shown at Sony’s press conference. When pressed about the cardboard box with two Snakes in it, Kojima said, “what we showed is called ‘The Love Box’.”

When discussing Metal Gear Solid: Rising Kojima said that it would not be a traditional Metal Gear game. “It’s a completely different kind of action than what has appeared in the series so far.” He also said, “I’ll be working more deeply on the project then a normal producer.”

At the Konami E3 press conference, Hideo Kojima announced in front of the video game press core that Kojima Productions as well as at Spanish studio Mercury Steam are busy working on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, which then confrims reports that happened earier this year.

Kojima says they want to “keep the franchise fresh”. Along with that, he also stated that Lord of Shadow should be out sometime within 2010 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Metal Gear Solid: Rising explains Raiden on the Kojima site, but what about Big Boss? During the Sony Press Conference, Hideo Kojima took the stage to announced his newest project for the PSP Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

The game is said to take place ten years after the events in Metal Gear Solid 3. Kojima emphasised that he and the MGS4 team were deeply involved in the game. Also, that it’s not a spin-off or sidestory. They also said that they’ll be using all the features of the PSP. Peace Walker is said to release in 2010.

“With Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Kojima Productions has once again pushed the limits of the PSP system, creating a beautiful sequel to Metal Gear Solid 3,” said Martin Schneider, European Marketing Director for Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH. “Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker lets players take the action and excitement of a console game to the PSP, and is a stunning addition to MGS Lore.”

And the un-candid teasing from Kojima Productions continues, and you though you were mean. The developers behind the Metal Gear series still plan on announcing the game at E3 – revealed by a tip to 1UP sometime ago.

However, there’s an advertisement running in the latest issue of  popular Japanese gaming mag, Famitsu, which hints, and teases at an announcement on 2009.5.18 and its all written within the clouds. Anyway, right now, it’s only reported that Famitsu is running the advertisement. So, once again, hold until May the 18th for details.

In addition, it was spotted someone – we don’t know there names – some hidden clues, hidden within the advertisement.

[ Hey Look, Some Kojima Productions Ad Announcing An Announcement via Kotaku]

As we all know, Kojima Productions currently is working on a iPhone version of Metal Gear Solid called Metal Gear Solid Touch, but if we look back sometime before the announcement you will probably see a FPS rumor. This was because Kojima had visited the offices of Infinity Ward to do god knows what, earlier that day.

Now, however according to Famitsu, Hideo Kojima tells them that he is working on two new games currently in development at Kojima Productions.

Here is how he said it was going to go down: The title that will be announced first is being made in a style similar to the way his team has already done in the past, while the second will be produced and restructured by Kojima Productions with the overseas market in mind.

Kojima’s current goal for his development team is, “a software house that can compete with the best of the best from America and Europe.” Could one of these be a FPS game?

This week, Hideo Kojima left us with a little note on his company’s website hinting the next Metal Gear game, but it was not a direct notice like of the some other hints, it had you really thinking about what the next game maybe. There was even the question of which platform it was going to be on. But, today there is a rumor going around that the next Metal Gear game will be a first-person shooter.

According to an anonymous poster on the 4chan board, Metal Gear Solid series director Hideo Kojima visited the offices of Infinity Ward to learn more about about first-person shooters, “apparently.”

The purported Infinity Warder wrote – with accompanying photo “proof” of the visit – that Kojima is working on something in the “FPS genre so he came to us to learn and take details from the team.” But, it wouldn’t be the first time that Kojima was rumored to have called upon the Call of Duty developer’s FPS know-how.

Kojima has also dropped by Call of Duty: World At War developer Treyarch, we hear, which is a strong hint about first-person shooter factor. But, is this first-person shooter really the next Metal Gear game?

Robert Bowling from Infinity Ward helps to clarify the details of Kojima’s visit, saying the photo is “legit” but calling the quote that the Metal Gear director was there “to learn” from the developer “bullshit” and “re-donku-lous.”

[Rumor: Kojima Working On First-Person Shooter, Calls On Infinity Ward via Kotaku]

The game has been out since June and even if you had to pay for extra characters the game has been going strong since. And today Konami announced that Metal Gear Online, which is the multiplayer aspect of Metal Gear Solid 4, now has reached million members worldwide, which is a huge number. They also revealed that to celebrate this announcement they will be giving free stuff and discounts just for you fanboys.

During the Commemorative Campaign period of November 25, 2008 from December 9, 2008, all players who own a Metal Gear Online online ID and have access to Metal Gear Online will receive 10,000 reward points each. The 10,000 reward points will be updated to account owners on the last day of the campaign, December 9, 2008.

Player characters who access Metal Gear Online during the Commemorative Campaign period will also have a chance to be one of 30 people worldwide to receive an additional 100,000 reward points.

Personally I wasn’t expecting to even see a LittleBigPlanet presentation at the Tokyo Game Show, but I’m very happy that I was wrong. Today, towards the end of the presentation, PlayStation’s main man, Hideo Kojima, took the stage and started talking about a Solid Snake Sackboy. Many of us where hoping for a new game announcement like a new Metal Gear game, but a cute sackboy is always cool too. Along with that announcement he also revealed that one of best video game villians of all time, Sephiroth will be making his way onto LittleBIGplanet as a Sackboy.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is just what long-time fans hoped for, but according to Famitsu Metal Gear Solid 4 is nothing but just another game not a system seller. Famitsu has revealed the hardware sales for the month of June, the sale revealed that with all the games sold in japan Metal Gear Solid didn’t really help the PlayStation 3 beat the Wii’s hardware sales.

PlayStation 3 : 139.494
Wii : 235.990

After announcing the game Konami has presents us with a trailer that comes full with in-game footage from the game. Has you can see in the game you control two characters, a boy handling a pistol and a girl with a sword-like wlip. Castlevania Order of Ecclesia is planned for Nintendo DS by the end of the year in Japan.




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The author of the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid 4 GamePro review has confirmed that the game doesn’t have a 90 Minute Cut-Scene. He told the readers "I’ve beat the game twice, and am the author of the forthcoming GamePro review," he goes on to say "Ninety-minute-long cinemas in MGS4 sounds like an exaggeration. Like the other MGS games, MGS4 definitely has a cinematic quality. And yes, some of the cut-scenes in the game are elaborate and occasionally lengthy. But not a one, to my recollection, even approaches 90 minutes ."

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With Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots just around the corner and with this new Japanese advertisement. It seems that the guys at Sony have come together to come out with new ways to play this upcoming ps3 game. In the video they show a young man who instead of looking at his TV screen looks at the reflection from his PS3 while playing the game. Many people may not understand this but, we all know that you would never get far playing the game like that.