Konami has announced that a free downloadable add-on for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots will be made available on PS3 on Thursday (June 26th) in Europe. The Metal Gear Solid 4 Database is a comprehensive archive detailing characters, weapons and plot elements from 1987’s original Metal Gear …
Read More »UK CHART: MGS4 guns down top spot
Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots has hit No.1 in the ChartTrack/ELSPA all formats chart – knocking LucasArts’ LEGO Indiana Jones into second spot. The stealth action title becomes the 2nd fastest-selling PS3 game ever, behind GTA IV. The Rockstar epic drops another place into third position …
Read More »PS3 set for software avalanche
VP of product marketing at SCEA Scott Steinberg has stated that the release of Konami’s MGS4 is just the beginning of a software avalanche” for PS3. Writing on the official PlayStation blog, Steinberg wrote: ‘Thanks to PS3’s Blu-Ray technology, this is the biggest Metal Gear Solid yet and sets a …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 4 rated 15
Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots has been passed by the BBFC with a ‘15′ age rating. The classification was made without any cuts having to be applied to the game. On its website, the BBFC reveales that the game has a ‘total running time’ of 545m …
Read More »New Steel PS3 heading to Japan
Seemingly not content enough with the release of both Ceramic White and Satin Silver versions the PS3, Japanese weekly games magazine Famitsu reports that a new Steel version of Sony’s machine will arrive in conjunction of the release of Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4. The game, which will be released …
Read More »MGS4 bundle resurrects backwardly compatible PS3
Along with news of a God of War PSP bundle and a North American launch date for the Dualshock 3 joypad, SCEA has also confirmed a Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle – which will include the backwardly compatible 80GB PS3 that Sony had previosuly said would be discontinued. The …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 4 demo hopes dashed
The recent rumours of a possible playable Metal Gear Solid 4 demo had got the pulses of PS3 gamers racing, but it seems now that disappointment is on the way with the news that no demo is planned. In a recent webcast on Hideo Kojima’s Konami blog, Kojima Productions’ Ryan …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 4 demo next month?
People bemoaned its lack of exclusive software for the first year of its life, but the PS3 big-hitters have begun to arrive, and none come bigger than Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4 – so news of a possible demo next month is understandably reason to get excited. CVG reports that …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 4 producer admits to sales pressure
It’s been in development for a long time, and the expectations of it are phenomenal – and now Konami has admitted that its PS3-exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4 must sell a million copies just to recoup the cost of its development. Reuters claims that producer Ryan Payton said the new …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 4 slips to next year
Konami’s forthcoming stealth shooter Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, due to be released at the end of this year, will now arrive in Q2 next year at the earliest, reported Next Generation . Konami has decided to delay the title’s release in order to make further improvements …
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