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December 5th, 2009 at 04:30pm
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Though we still don’t know much about Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker’s cast of characters, Konami sent out a batch of glamour shots for a few of the assumed super spies you’ll be cavorting with during your time with the game. Our personal favorite? Definitely Chico. It takes a special breed of man to pull off an Ascot that expertly.
Check out all the portraits, as well as a bunch of new screenshots, in the gallery below.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker character art’s got style originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 28th, 2009 at 02:00pm
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Some days you feed on a tree frog … and some days you get a new Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker demo! Kojima’s official blog brings word that a new demo will drop on the Japanese PSN this Sunday, November 1st. It’s not quite the same as the one we got our hands on — this one will be a tweaked version of the demo that was available exclusively in a special section of Konami’s booth at the Tokyo Game Show.
Kojima Productions has modified the controls based on player feedback, adding an unlockable third control scheme on top of the original two. The developer also improved the enemy AI and behavior, and changed the CQC system a tad, all in an effort to make the game easier to play.
Kojima explains that this process of releasing demos is a game of “catch ball” with the players and that he’s looking for more input after they’ve tried this second demo. Sharing is caring, after all.
[Via andriasang]
New MGS: Peace Walker demo on Japanese PSN this Sunday originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 16th, 2009 at 03:00pm
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With fingers crossed, we turned to the latest Kojima Productions podcast, hoping beyond hope that the studio had taken our recommendation to refresh the voice of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker’s bearded protagonist. Our nominee for Solid Snake’s new pipes? Bobcat Goldthwait. Sure, Mr. Goldthwait would likely take the series in an unexpected direction — but what unsuspecting player wouldn’t be swept up in an exploration of Snake’s rarely discussed history as a rabid, nigh-incomprehensible stand-up comic? Now there’s a 90-minute cutscene we can get behind.
Alas, Konami’s recently announced voice cast for Peace Walker is actually (gasp!) sans-Goldthwait. Of course David Hayter will reprise the role for, like, the hundredth time. The rest of the totally unsurprising list can be found after the jump — but why not watch this beautiful excerpt of the Peace Walker that could have been instead?
[Via Kotaku]
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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker English voice cast announced originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 13th, 2009 at 09:30pm
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Ever the consummate hype man, Hideo Kojima is fluffing up Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker by teasing an apparent system-selling feature. “I haven’t announced this yet, but there’s another feature in [Peace Walker] that will surprise people, to the point where they’ll want to go out and buy a PSP right now!” Kojima blabbed in the latest issue of Famitsu (as translated by 1UP). Short of some sort of in-game subliminal advertising (hey, these guys like to experiment), we’re thinking The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Nine-Ninety-Nine-Dollar Feature — or maybe it’s just “The Buck-Seventy Feature” — could get lost in translation. After all, the two Peace Walker features that have been newly revealed seem distinctly Japanese in their appeal.
Also plucked from the pages of Famitsu, is the revelation that Peace Walker will feature Yamaha’s Vocaloid software. (Yeah, we’d never heard of it either — just wikipedia it.) If we understand it correctly, Vocaloid will allow certain weapons in the game to sing and scream. Mm-hmm, sounds incredibly annoying.
Also revealed: Those 2D-illustrated cut scenes? Yep, like this one. Well, they’re interactive. “For example, if you zoom in on the scene where you first meet Paz, you can see the uniform she has on under her coat, and then what’s under that,” art director Yoji Shinkawa explained … rather creepily. “It’s an idea I came up with while thinking about what makes games different from movies or animation. I think it’s pretty interactive.” Hopefully, not too interactive.
MGS: Peace Walker to feature Vocaloid, interactive cutscenes … and a surprise that’ll make you buy a PSP? originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 11:10pm
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Last week, the Tokyo Game Show brought in over 100 posts worth of news, previews, interviews, galleries, and videos. Clearly,
a lot happened. If you’re looking for a comprehensive list of all the goings-on during
TGS 2009, Joystiq has you covered —
and organized!
Click on a platform below to scan the highlights:
(On the far right: that’s “News” and “Culture” on the top and bottom, respectively)
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TGS 2009: The Recap Post originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 16th, 2009 at 05:30pm
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Remember when Kojima’s countdown ended … and started another countdown? Man, that was fun! The creator of the Metal Gear series seemingly had a big laugh as he teased gamers all the way to his E3 announcements: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP, Metal Gear Solid: Rising for PS3 and Xbox 360, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
As the countdown continued, the site featured a number of symbols that flashed on the screen. Many of you attempted to break the code … but were you successful? Kojima just revealed what each of those symbols was supposed to mean:
- 5 = it is an MGS5 class game
- S = Snake
- 巳＝snake in Kanji
- E = E3
- R = Raiden
- 3 = 3 from 360 and E3
- 6 = 6 from 360
- P and S = PSP and adding 3 makes it PS3
Once again, Kojima asks gamers: “Did you like it?” We think we can speak for most gamers when we say … “no.”
Kojima finally explains his wacky countdown site originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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June 15th, 2009 at 02:14pm
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Despite stating that he would be more hands-off with the Metal Gear Solid games after the fourth installment, Kojima has decided to once again roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Speaking with Japanese mag Famitsu (via PSPHyper), the gaming icon has said that Peace Walker will pretty much be his MGS5 — something that will likely be excellent news to every Genome soldier reading this very post — and that the MGS4 team will be working on it. (For some new Peace Walker screens, fresh out of Kojima Productions, check out our gallery embedded below).
Moving on to Metal Gear Solid Rising, Kojima says the game will include “a completely different kind of action than what has appeared in the series so far,” though we’re not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. He also mentioned that he will be involved with the project “more deeply” than a normal producer which, considering the expectations and the new engine involved, makes sense.
The implicit bad news here: With all this Metal Gear stuff taking up Kojima’s time (not to mention Castlevania: Lords of Shadow), we’re unlikely to see that rumored Snatcher and/or Zone of the Enders and/or Something Else title anytime soon.
Source – Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker details
Source – Kojima discusses Metal Gear Solid Rising [via Eurogamer]
Kojima says MGS: Peace Walker is his MGS5, calls Rising a ‘different kind of action’ game originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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June 13th, 2009 at 09:30pm
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Like a case of bad allergies, Metal Gear Solid 4’s graphics left us rubbing our eyes. That said, when it comes to developing the recently unveiled Metal Gear Solid Rising, the latest sequel’s eye candy is not nearly sweet enough.
According to Kojima Productions assistant producer Sean Eyestone, the team is remaking Rising’s engine “from scratch” to make it look better than MGS4. Speaking during a recent Kojima Productions podcast, Eyestone describes the multiplatform project as “a big project like Metal Gear Solid 4,” adding that the team “team is serious about making it look as good as possible on every platform.” Let’s just hope our meager eyes can take it.
[Via 1UP]
Metal Gear Solid Rising getting re-done graphics engine originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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