Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2010 19:04:27 GMT -5
Metal Gear Solid: Rising gets release date
First revealed in summer 2009, Metal Gear Solid: Rising is an action game starring Metal Gear creator Raiden and set between MGS2 and MGS4. The game was expected to be out in 2011. Those expectations, it seems, are wrong.
Kotaku has been told that Metal Gear Solid: Rising will miss 2011, and will instead hit in 2012. The multiplatform game trades the "Tactical Espionage Action" of the traditional Metal Gear Solid series for "Lighting Bolt Action".
"Raiden" means "thunder and lighting" in Japanese.
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is involved in the project, but merely as the game's executive producer and not as the title's writer or designer.
Long waits for Metal Gear Solid games are not uncommon. Metal Gear Solid 4 was first shown at the 2005 Tokyo Game Show. It wasn't released until June 2008.
Kotaku is following up with Konami and will update should the company comments.
First revealed in summer 2009, Metal Gear Solid: Rising is an action game starring Metal Gear creator Raiden and set between MGS2 and MGS4. The game was expected to be out in 2011. Those expectations, it seems, are wrong.
Kotaku has been told that Metal Gear Solid: Rising will miss 2011, and will instead hit in 2012. The multiplatform game trades the "Tactical Espionage Action" of the traditional Metal Gear Solid series for "Lighting Bolt Action".
"Raiden" means "thunder and lighting" in Japanese.
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is involved in the project, but merely as the game's executive producer and not as the title's writer or designer.
Long waits for Metal Gear Solid games are not uncommon. Metal Gear Solid 4 was first shown at the 2005 Tokyo Game Show. It wasn't released until June 2008.
Kotaku is following up with Konami and will update should the company comments.
Video: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 footage
Guillermo Del Toro's THQ game will be revealed during VGAs
"You've heard rumors of us working with a big film director who is actually a big gamer," THQ core games EVP Danny Bilson said during his keynote at the IGDA Leadership Forum. Uh, dude, heads-up: those aren't rumors any more. As it turns out, we'll finally get an official announcement about Guillermo del Toro's THQ project during the Spike VGAs next month.
"He's a gamer who wants to make a great game," said Bilson about director Guillermo del Toro, "and has very interesting points of view and is partnered very closely with myself and my writing partner, Paul." Bilson revealed that THQ "will be announcing the game title and the studio and all of that on the VGA awards in about a month."
If you're late to the party, catch up on some of our previous coverage here. Del Toro's game will have Lovecraftian themes to it ---- which is great, because we've always felt there should be more awesome games about Cthulhu.[/quote]
Hitman 5 coming soon?
If you were unsatisfied by voice actor David Bateson's kind-of-but-not-really confirmation that a new installment of the Hitman franchise was in the works, perhaps you'll be won over by some additional, recently uncovered evidence. IO Interactive's Rasmus Hoejengaard, Damien Simper and Theo Engell-Nielsen all listed Hitman 5 on their LinkedIn resumes, the latter of which includes a 2011 launch window for the unannounced title.
We're not sure what stronger evidence we could find for the project's existence, aside from, like, time traveling into the future and bringing back a finished copy of the game. Can anyone get on that?
If you were unsatisfied by voice actor David Bateson's kind-of-but-not-really confirmation that a new installment of the Hitman franchise was in the works, perhaps you'll be won over by some additional, recently uncovered evidence. IO Interactive's Rasmus Hoejengaard, Damien Simper and Theo Engell-Nielsen all listed Hitman 5 on their LinkedIn resumes, the latter of which includes a 2011 launch window for the unannounced title.
We're not sure what stronger evidence we could find for the project's existence, aside from, like, time traveling into the future and bringing back a finished copy of the game. Can anyone get on that?