Metal Gear Solid

After it appeared on Amazon, Konami officially announced the release date and price for Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection for North America. They also released a picture of the US version, which looks similar to the Japanese one, but has some slight differences.

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Konami also provided a little bit of information on the content of the art book. It will contain ‘rare marketing art from around the globe’. A single picture of the book can be seen here.

The set will release on July 9 for a price of $49,99. It will include the HD Collection (MGS2, MGS3 and MGS:PW), MGS4, Metal Gear 1 and 2, MGS1 and MGS VR Missions as a digital download and the two digital novels by Ashley Wood (it is the first time the second digital novel is being released outside of Japan).

Source: PlayStationBlog

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has been confirmed to get a PC release. This was posted on Twitter by Jean Pierre Kellams, creative producer at Platinum Games.

I am excited to see Rising hit the PC. BTW – direct all please direct PC MGR questions to @konami.

— JP Kellams (@PG_jp) 17 mei 2013

No further details were given, but from the tweet it seems like questions directed at Konami on this might be answered.

Source: JP Kellams Twitter

Check out this picture of the 100-page art book that comes with the Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection bundle. It was posted on the article page of the Japanese Konami Style store.

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Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection is set to release in Japan on July 11th of this year, and July 9th in the US if Amazon is right, exclusively for PlayStation 3.

Source: Konami Style Japan, KP Japan Facebook

Online retailer Amazon.com has added Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection to their shop. According to the store, the game will release July 9 for a price of $49.99.

Amazon has not yet added the game to their European stores. Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection will release exclusively on PlayStation 3. To read more about it, go here.

Source: Amazon.com, via PlayStationLifeStyle

Hideo Kojima posted a couple of photos of Yoji Shinkawa showing a prototype for a Metal Gear RAY by 3A, the company that made a large Metal Gear REX earlier. This version isn’t exactly small either. It’s been silent since we saw a couple of pictures of it almost a year ago, but here are some new images.

Kojima also pointed out RAY’s mouth can be opened (as you can see on the second photo) and his ‘toes’ are made of rubber, which is probably fortunate for any surface you want to put it on.

Source: Hideo Kojima Twitter

Konami will be holding a pre-E3 show, which will take place on June 6th 2013.

The show will be live streamed on GameSpot and XBLA, as well as Konami’s own site. If you visit the latter one, you can stare at a countdown with, at the moment, 23 days remaining.

Source: Konami

During an interview by IGN’s Greg Miller, David Hayter, the voice of Snake, answered some questions about his favorite moments in the entire series.

Here are his choices:

1. Sniper Wolf’s death scene (MGS1)
David Hayter talked about how he remembers recording this scene together with Christopher Randolph (Otacon) and Tasia Valenza (Sniper Wolf). The video for the cutscenes was already recorded, so they could really get into the moment, and together create a moving scene.

2. Solid Snake to Vulcan Raven: “You want to pull each other’s ears?” (MGS1)
A funny and memorable line by Snake, after Vulcan Raven tells him about an event in the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics.

3. Hunting The End (MGS3)
The fact that you have this two huge areas where the fight takes place, and you can use use directional microphone to find The End and sneak up at him from behind.

4. RAY vs REX (MGS4)
David Hayter didn’t really get into this, apparently it speaks for itself.

5. Final fight between Old Snake and Liquid-Ocelot (MGS4)
The whole fight takes you through the series using the music tracks of the older games.

Hayter talked about two more scenes: Snake dreaming about Shadow Moses in MGS4, and waking up, while his face goes from polygonal MGS1 Snake to Old Snake. Secondly, at the end of Peace Walker, when Bis Boss is asking The Boss (or actually, the AI) why she did what she did. This scene was emotional to record and one of his favorites to do.

Source: IGN

Hideo Kojima is on a business trip to Los Angeles on this very moment. What’s he doing over there? Well, he gave some small clues on Twitter.

Kojima has just had a lunch meeting with Kyle Cooper from Prologue. For those who don’t know, Prologue is a company found by world renown title sequence designer Kyle Cooper.

Cooper has worked on several Metal Gear sequences as well with his previous company Imanginary Forces. He created the spectacular intros for Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3. Could he be hired again for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain?

Well, that is still unclear, but what does make this interesting is the fact that Kojima received a memory card from Cooper with what he calls ‘super cool data’.

“Exciting finished mtg w / Kyle-San. Received a memory card with Super cool Data.”

Maybe this has nothing to do with MGSV after all, but it is certainly possible, especially since Kyle Cooper has worked on Metal Gear titles in the past. We’ll just have to wait and see.

After his dinner meeting with Cooper, Kojima headed off to the brand new Kojima Productions studio in LA.

Source: Hideo Kojima Twitter

This probably won’t come as a shocking surprise, but Konami’s latest financial statement reads, among their future plans, that we can expect to see the Metal Gear series at E3 2013. This will most likely be in the shape of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and The Legacy Collection.

We also intend to promote METAL GEAR series, our leading products, including effectively utilizing E3 2013 which will be held at Los Angeles, in the U.S. in June 2013.

So while everyone probably saw this coming, it’s still nice to have it official. E3 will begin on June 11 2013.

Source: Konami financial report

Launching today in Japan and next week in the west, the Blade Wolf DLC for Metal Gear Rising Revengeance tells the story of Raiden’s canine cyborg assistant. It will show the origins of Blade Wolf and his encounter with Raiden.

In Europe and the US it will be available for download on May 14 (Xbox 360) and May 15 (PS3), respectively for 560 Microsoft Points or $6.99 / €6,99.

Konami uploaded a promotional video to their Japanese Youtube channel.

This s apparently the final piece of downloadable content for the game.

Source: Konami Youtube channel, MGS.be