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Remember those Metal Gear Solid 4 trailers where you suddenly saw a young Snake slinking around the war-torn middle-eastern ruins we'd seen Old Snake sneaking about in previous trailers? Remember how they made us all scratch our heads and start guessing about time travel, or clones, or children of Snake, or even that we'd been wrong and that it's a replacement agent? Maybe the guy's after Snake? Maybe he's working with him?

Here we are again on the road to a new Metal Gear Solid title – Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP – and Kojima's crew is confusing us, exciting us, and having more than a little bit of fun with us like he always does. Look for four, count'em four soldiers that all look like Big Boss – the supposed star of the show since this game is set in the 1970s after Metal Gear Solid 3 – and buckle up because while this one seems just a little strange, I fully expect future trailers to get really out of hand.

I can't tell my wife that the original Metal Gear Solid is coming to the PlayStation Nework as a digital download on June 18th because she'll start complaining about how every time you die you hear "Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAKE!!". She heard it a lot when I played MGS, MGS2, MGS3, and even MGS4, although I had the book for that one. Read more »

I suppose it's part of my American identity but one of my video game weaknesses is video game currency. It makes games just a bit more addicting for me whether I'm collecting Grand Theft Auto dollars, Ratchet and Clank bolts, Devil May Cry orbs, or even Metal Gear Solid 4 Drebin Points. I'll crawl out onto a raging battlefield to scoop up dropped guns for those puppies even though I almost never need to use them. It's found money, so how can I just walk away? The sound is a key part of it, too. The blips of Drebin Points and whoomp of Devil May Cry orbs can't hold a candle to the king of game currency -- Ratchet and Clank bolts. The jangling of those bolts as you scoop them up and they literally float into your account must've been designed by someone with some serious psychology chops. The clicking of the studs in Lego Star Wars probably comes in second mostly because I liked Legos so much as a kid. Read more »

I'm not kidding

Earlier this month in anticipation of the release of Metal Gear Solid 4 the PlayStation Universe posted a list of 12 tips for players of the game. Now that MGS4 is out we won't grumble about their possible early access to the game, we'll just pass them along to you to help you through the sometimes convoluted and always cerebral world of Metal Gear Solid. Read more »

Like many others, I downloaded the MGO Beta from the UK Playstation Store last night and left my PS3 online all night to download and upload the 1.10 patch via their P2P option. I attempted to create my "Konami ID" via the Konami ID website but the site was barely responding. Konami is obviously aware of the problem, posting a message on 4/16: Read more »