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News Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow DLC Sadly Delayed Until March
Having played the brilliant Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow as one of our Christmas catch-up games (yes, even we have those), we were rather looking forward to MercurySteam's continuation of the narrative with the previously announced "Reverie" DLC
Unfortunately the additional single-player content has been pushed back until March as per an...
News Anyone Still Playing Metal Gear Online? There's A New Patch...
.. 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...
News Hideo Kojima Teases "Devil Project", We're Clueless
Hideo Kojima, ever the tease, has started Tweeting about something he's deeming the "devil project"
We've absolutely no idea what it is, but we've included a series of messages from the Metal Gear mastermind for your convenience: Have to give priority to another lines scenario etc., so now I cannot work on the devil project and...
News Ever Fancied Designing Your Very Own Tombstone?
Probably not, right
You have? Uh-huh. That's a bit weird. Anyway. Konami wants to see your very best "spine chilling sculpture" as part of a Silent Hill: Downpour contest on Facebook. The winning tombstone will get rendered into the final game. Which is pretty awesome. Konami will pick its six favourite sculptures on February 10th and open...
News Music Is One Of The Most Important Aspects Of A Silent Hill Game, So How Does Downpour Fare?
Perfectly acceptable
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News The Rain Falls In Silent Hill: Downpour This Autumn
Consider us cautiously optimistic for Silent Hill: Downpour
We're big fans of the franchise and horror games in general, but unfortunately the series has taken a turn for rubbish in recent years. Silent Hill: Downpour appears to be heading in the right direction though. We think. Maybe. Hopefully. (Please be good.) Konami's officially confirmed the...
Rumour Metal Gear Solid HD Trilogy Coming To PlayStation 3
A high-definition remake of the original Metal Gear Solid trilogy is coming to PlayStation 3 if reports in Official PlayStation Magazine are to be believed
The magazine cites "insider whispers" as the source for the story, stating that the "first three" Metal Gear Solid games are set to be reborn on the PlayStation 3. It would...
News Konami Teases Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow "Reverie" DLC
Konami's been teasing Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow's first DLC pack, "Reverie", for a while now on the game's Facebook page
The site teases: Tick tock Its time for another glimpse into the upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Reverie DLC. What might Gabriel try to change with this time machine? As is the case for all of Lords Of...
News Kojima Productions Staffing Up For "Next Generation Metal Gear Solid Series"
What does the "Next Generation Metal Gear Solid Series" entail anyway? Is it a PlayStation 4 title, or is it just a franchise reboot on current platforms? We've no idea, but a series of job listings on Konami's website mention the phrase
The job-listings are plenty, seeking planners, level designers, scripters and more. Kojima Productions are...
News Silent Hill 8 Subtitled Downpour, First Details Released
It's been a while since we got word on Vatra Games' upcoming entry into the Silent Hill franchise
The game was announced and trailered at last year's E3, but Konami's been notably quiet about the horror title since then. Thankfully GameInformer's broken the silence, announcing the game's official name: Silent Hill: Downpour. Apparently the game's...
News DanceDanceRevolution Gets New Moves in Europe in March
PS3 title on the way
DanceDanceRevolution has been out in North America for a while now, but European fans of the dancing series were clueless as to when or if the game would make its way to the continent. Until now, that is, with Konami renaming the game DanceDanceRevolution New Moves and bringing it over in March 2011. Coming to the continent with...
News Make Your PlayStation Move A Beam Katana With No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise
To remind everyone that the stupidly stylish No More Heroes is coming to PlayStation 3, Konami's released a batch of new screenshots of the Nintendo Wii port
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News New No More Heroes Shots Show Leather, Beam Swords, Gimps
All bases covered
Konami recently released a batch of new screenshots for the upcoming Move-compatible port of No More Heroes: Heroes's Paradise, Grasshopper Manufacture's ode to otaku everywhere, and the game is shaping up very nicely indeed. The story of Travis Touchdown's attempt to rise to number one in the assassin league, the PS3 port will be...
News Metal Gear Solid: Rising Slices Itself Into 2012
Metal Gear Solid: Rising was originally due next year
Unfortunately, that's no longer the case. Kotaku reports that the game's been pushed back into 2012. The multiplatform title replaces Metal Gear Solid's traditional "Tactical Espionage Action" for a new breed of "Lightning Bolt Action" fronted by the game's protagonist,...
News Is Metal Gear Solid 4 Finally About To Get Trophies?
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...
News No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise Lands PlayStation 3 Exclusivity In North America
Konami announced months ago that they'd picked up the publishing rights to the HD Wii port No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise, and were planning to bring the title to Europe with PlayStation Move support
The publishers finally announced that the game's coming to North America too — as a PlayStation 3 exclusive. For those unfamiliar, No More Heroes:...
News Konami Announces No More Heroes for PlayStation Move... Again
Travis touches down
The official US PlayStation blog gets plenty scoops – it is the official PlayStation blog after all – but not always. Cast your minds back to the early days of Movemodo – our first day of operation, in fact. We brought you news that Konami was bringing No More Heroes to PlayStation 3, and today Konami has announced it's...
News Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Is Getting All Patched Up
There's an issue in the PlayStation 3 version of Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow
Some users have reported a problem in which save data gets corrupted. The game asks you to hit the X button to "overwrite" and bam, just like that your save is gone. But Konami's on the problem. The publisher reassured fans that "a patch for the PS3 save...
News Sure Hope You Liked Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 'Cos There's Probably Another One Coming
According to a report on Eurogamer Spain, MercurySteam's already talking about a follow-up to Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow
The soundtrack composer for the first game has told Spanish radio: If you liked the first , hope that the second is even more spectacular. We're going to assume it's already in the early stages of development. The engine's...
News Konami's Classic X-Men Arcade Game On Its Way To The PlayStation Network
Konami's cult X-Men six-player arcade brawler is heading to the PlayStation Network
The game was announced during Marvel Games' panel at the New York Comic-Con event. The game will be ported to the PSN by Konami and will achieve its six-player cap via online multiplayer. There's no price or date information yet, but we expect more to follow over the...
First Impressions Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow on PS3 Demo
It struck us pretty early on, that we're going to be way more engrossed in Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow's story than its gameplay
From a narrative perspective, the game's cinematics and voice-acting are top-notch. Even the dark, European gothic style is inviting. But the gameplay doesn't quite live up to the presentation's precedent. The demo opens...
News European PlayStation Plus Members Get To Demo Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Today
Sony's confirmed that European PlayStation Plus members will get a neat little bonus as part of their PlayStation Plus subscription today
Members will get access to the Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow demo a week before it launches for everyone next week. The new Castlevania title's due in October and is being overlooked by Metal Gear Solid's Hideo...
News Hideo Kojima Would Love To Bring A Game To Next Year's Tokyo Game Show
While Hideo Kojima had a game present at this year's Tokyo Game Show, it wasn't his game
Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow may well have been one of the best titles on display, but it's being developed by MercurySteam, and Kojima is only overseeing the development. That said, the Kojima Productions boss would like to announce something of his own at next...
News TGS 10: Metal Gear Solid: Rising Enters The Third-Dimension
Sony's confirmed that Metal Gear Solid: Rising will be playable in full stereoscopic 3D on the PlayStation 3
It should make the art of melon slicing every inch more exciting with the added dimension. Now all we need is a PlayStation Move announcement. How about it Kojima?
News Don't Expect Motion-Controlled Castlevania on Move
Move cannot do whips or other objects
Move is a versatile piece of kit, with titles lined up that turn the plastic into everything from a beam katana to a lasso, but it seems it has its limitations. Sony recently held a press conference in Japan to explain the controller in more depth, detailing its ability to portray pens, torches, nets and...
News PlayStation Plus Subscribers Will Get Early Access To The Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 Demo
Konami's confirmed that vanilla PlayStation 3 users will get access to the latest Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 demo on September 15th
PlayStation Plus subscribers, however, will be good to go a week early. They'll get the demo next Wednesday. Aside: do you say "pezz" or "p-e-s"?
News Kojima "Wanted" To Develop 3D Metal Gear Solid 4 With Trophies, Doesn't Have The Time
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...
News Konami Bringing Travis Touchdown to PlayStation Move
Punk's not dead
The original No More Heroes on Nintendo Wii was a highly original but equally flawed game that never really found its audience on the machine. Suda51's homage to punk, trashy TV and laser katana-wielding assassins fell foul of some of the Wii's limitations, but the forthcoming PlayStation 3 version of the game will combine the...
News Does Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Remind You Of Anything?
Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Of The Colossus perhaps? It might lack originality - seems like Castlevania's going to work with the formula of a number of PlayStation greats - but it looks stunning all the same
There are more shots over at Kotaku.
News SAW II: The Video Game Drops Just In Time For The Latest SAW Movie
They make a lot of SAW movies
We're told this year's movie is number seven in the series, but we reckon it's more in the region of 727. Either way, with a new SAW video game on the way it makes sense to tie things into the movie. Which is exactly what Konami are doing. They've announced that SAW II: Flesh & Blood will release on October 19th in...
News There's No Need To Slice A Thing In Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Not Even A Water Melon
Metal Gear Solid: Rising is a different type of Metal Gear game
It replaces seasoned protagonist Snake with Raiden, and switches tranquilizers for samurai swords. When all's said and done though, it is still a Metal Gear game. And that means that the stealth elements will remain in tact. In fact, according to Rising's producer, you'll be able to...
GamesCom 2010 Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Hits Early October
Konami's dated their Dracula slaying foray into the God Of War genre, by whipping Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow with an October 5th and 7th release date for America and Europe respectively
Konami's added that the game will be presented with two DLC packs after release, both of which will further the game's narrative. Seems a bit dodgy to us, that...
GamesCom 2010 Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 Kicks-Off In October
Konami's dated the latest entry in the Pro Evolution Soccer franchise, scheduling PES 2011 for October 8th here in the UK
This year's being touted as the biggest yet for the PES franchise, as the game's been overtaken by FIFA in recent years. There are new pass placement mechanics which allow you to weight the ball, aswell as new AI routines,...
News DanceDanceRevolution PS3 Includes Support For PlayStation Move, PlayStation Eye
We already know that DanceDanceRevolution PS3 will include support for Sony's motion controller, the PlayStation Move
But now we know to what extent. At its core, DDR PS3 is simply that: DanceDanceRevolution on the PlayStation 3. The game sports a track-list of 45 songs (25 from Konami's in-house artists, 20 from mainstream artists) which seems sort...
News Kojima Teases "Big" Pre-Tokyo Game Show Announcement
Presumably peeved at having to share the headlines with Ken Levine, Hideo Kojima's teased some "big" news of his own on Twitter [cheers Andriasang] -- basically, he's got something to say this weekend
The Metal Gear man revealed on Twitter that despite being ill, he wants to rest up and recover in time for the weekend, and his "big"...
News DanceDanceRevolution PS3 Joins The Long List Of PlayStation Move Supported Titles
PlayStation Move is getting support quicker than a snowball rolling down an ice-capped mountain
Since the motion controller's announcement at GDC, announcements have come frequently and steadily. There's going to be no shortage of games to play with the glowing ball wands. The latest game to support Sony motion controller is the recently revealed...
News DanceDanceRevolution's Coming To The PlayStation 3 (We Think!)
A mysterious image has popped up on Konami's Facebook page
The three-minute PhotoShop knock-up states, "You really wanted it, so we really listened!" There's an image of an old-school DanceDanceRevolution cover and a phat PlayStation 3, with a "+" sign between them. We're going to go out on a limb and guess what it all means:...
News XBOX 360 Space Limitations Rear Their Ugly Head Again
It's been a while since we last posted about the XBOX 360's space limitations
Last time, Capcom's Jun Takeuchi basically conceded that content had been cut from Lost Planet 2 (both XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3) to get the game on a DVD. It sucks, because those of us with PlayStation 3s are often suffering due to the 360's storage limitations. Ever...
News Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Confirmed For October
Konami's confirmed that Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow will hit the PlayStation 3 this coming October
That's actually not too far away folks. There's no exact date announced yet, but presumably that's coming during GamesCom. PS3Valut's also got hold of a shot of the game's boxart. We've embedded that above. It looks... Disappointing.
News Hideo Kojima Tied To Adventure Game Project
In an interview with Japanese website 4Gamer (picked up and kindly translated by AndriaSang), the CEO of publisher 5pb, Chiyomaru Shikura, revealed that his upcoming collaboration with Hideo Kojima could well be an adventure game
"Kojima said that he wanted to make an adventure game," Shikura explained, adding, "we're still at the...
News Kojima: "The Younger Generation Of Japan Is Losing"
Hideo Kojima has revealed that he believes Japan are in a "losing" battle due to the recent boom of Western games development
The Metal Gear man said that he feels the younger generation of Japanese game developers have lost their motivation. He came to conclusion after watching a TV documentary about foreign exchange students who were passionate...
News Surprise: Sony Confirm They'll Be Showing Stuff At TGS
E3's only just finished, GamesCom's on the horizon and then
.. Well, then there's TGS. A partial list of Tokyo Game Show exhibitors has been released, including plenty of familiar faces. SEGA, Square Enix, Capcom, Konami; they'll all be there. As will Sony. Over 138 companies are currently confirmed for the show, with that number certain to rise as...
News Konami Gunning For 3 Million Sales Of Peace Walker
A Nikkei interview (picked up by Andriasang) has revealed that Konami CEO, Fumiaki Tanaka, aims to sell about 3 million copies of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Given that the game's a PSP title (where basically everyone is a pirate), that's a pretty high number. But then, this is a Metal Gear game that bares a passing resemblance to Monster...
News Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair Could Eventually Hit The PlayStation Network
Perhaps if we make enough noise that we want Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair on the PlayStation Network, Konami will listen
The XBOX Live Arcade platformer does appear to be being teased for the PSN. Konami's Koji Igarashi told Destructoid at E3 last week that, while his priority is the XBLA version, there might be the possibility of bringing the...
News About That Silent Hill 8 Trailer We Forgot To Post
Somewhere amongst the E3 hustle and bustle, we managed to skip on posting one of the things we're most excited for: the new Silent Hill game
Despite not having a full title yet, this lengthy trailer for the tentatively named Silent Hill 8 goes pretty in-depth into the latest Silent Hill's psyche. The game appears to revolve around a group of...
News Kojima Exclusive News Purely Rumour & Speculation For Now
Either Kojima's trying to pull a David Jaffe, or there really is no "face melting" PlayStation 3 in the works
We're hoping for the former, but we're not holding our breath. According to the productions boss on the Metal Gear franchise, Kenichiro Imaizumi, suggestions of a big PlayStation 3 reveal from Kojima are purely rumour and speculation. The...
News Report Insists Kojima Has A "Massive" PS3 Exclusive Up His Sleeve
Kojima was at E3 this week talking Metal Gear Solid: Rising and Nintendo 3DS
It was sad not to see him on the Sony stage this year, but according to a "senior US publishing source", there was a reason. Because Kojima's got a "massive PS3 exclusive" to unveil at the Tokyo Game Show later in the year. The report notes that the...
News Yay, Metal Gear Solid: Rising Might Get PlayStation Move Support After All
One thing we've been literally screaming for is PlayStation Move support for Kojima Productions' upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Rising
Based on the precise cutting mechanics of that game, it seems like the perfect fit for PlayStation Move's 1:1 control mechanics. According to the games producer, Shigenobu Matsuyama, We [Kojima Productions] are yes...
E3 2010 Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Whips The PS3 This Fall
Konami's confirmed that Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow will launch on the PlayStation 3 this Fall
The game's in development over at Mercury Steam, but is being overlooked by Hideo Kojima and his crew at Kojima Productions. (It kinda looks a lot like God Of War.) We've embedded some footage after the jump.
News Kojima: Sorry, Zone Of The Enders 3 Is On Hold
Deep down we were expecting some kind of Zone Of The Enders announcement at E3
Kojima had been talking about the franchise for a while, and it just felt like the right time to announce it. Sadly, in the absence of an announcement, it sounds like the game's been pushed back. Regarding ZOE3, theres been various things, so its been sort of...