Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy from Hive Division on Vimeo.

What do you get when you mix ingenious film making, lots of passion, and a few brilliant minds: Metal Gear Solid Philanthropy. A three part saga made with a budget just under $15,000, fanmade Philanthropy gives videogame fans the melodrama in live action form. The history behind the production is just as dramatic, but gives birth to an amazing presentation and talent.

We’ve seen fan shorts before, but not full features. I’m sure we have a talent pool here at DarkDiamond capable of similar feats…

The OST of MGS: Philanthropy can be found here.

[Found by way of Fidgit]

And no Estelle, we will not make a yaoi film.

It was only a matter of time until a Metal Gear Solid game ended up on the Xbox 360. It makes sense. Konami know they can’t keep being exclusive with MGS to Sony this generation. They can’t afford to. No developer can really.

This game was never going to be exclusive to the 360 as many speculated when it was first announced. It just wouldn’t happen unless it was some crappy little side title, and nothing more. Konami would never leave Sony in the cold. Not after it has been 3 systems of theirs that has played home to the Metal Gear Solid series and allowed it to sell record numbers. To make a game exclusive to the 360 and snub PS3 owning MGS stanboys would’ve been a huge mistake. Konami did the right thing going multi format with this game. And PC gamers, peep this: The game is heading for PC too!

I’m actually more excited about this than I was Metal Gear Solid 4. Weird. Considering there is no news on this game other than it will feature Raiden as a playable character. Metal Gear Solid 4 was a great game, but it just didn’t amaze me in the same way Metal Gear Solid 3 did. If there was ever a game that didn’t get enough recognition or praise – it’s Metal Gear Solid 3.

Hopefully Rising will explain what the hell happened to Raiden, because MGS4 didn’t explain a great deal about him. And what was disclosed was plain stupid. A dude goes from having only the part of his face melded onto a load of cybernetics, just to end up with a normal body again, plus a few scars!? Hell no! Raiden should have died, turned into an Mk.III or ended up as a talking head in a tank. Many hated Metal Gear Solid 2 for featuring Raiden as the main character. But I didn’t have a problem with it really. My dislike of Sons of liberty was due to it being so boring and long winded. None of the characters, cut-scenes or conversations were particularly memorable.

There are no screenshots or footage of Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and there probably won’t be for a good 2 years. Then we’ll have an onslaught of images and over-long videos right up until the games’ release.

So enjoy that image of Raiden’s face. ‘Cause that’s all we’re getting for now.

Well, i thought we had heard the last of this, but it seems the Tokyo Game Show has brought this rumor to surface again. Yoshitaka Arai, the public relations head for Konami was heard telling the Japanese investor bulletin "Morningstar" the following:

"The worldwide demand for an Xbox 360 version (of MGS4) is quite high, and it is something we are currently looking in to."

Sounds like things are still hopeful for us Xbox fans out there, and I’m sure any fan of the series would love to see more people get the opportunity to play it. Will it ever come to fruition? Only time will tell, but keep your eyes pealed!

[Yahoo! Japan]

As if there wasn’t enough merchandise out for this game already, we’ve truly got the icing on the cake here: 7cm tall, young, female, super-deformed, barefoot animé versions of your favorite Metal Gear Solid 4 characters will be available to purchase. Pictured from left to right are Ocelot, Snake, Raiden, and Otacon. They’re priced at ¥2,940 (US $27) and can be found here at komamistyle. Honestly I think these are pretty awesome.

[Kotaku]

Looks like someone at Gamefaqs.com has gotten a hold of this hugely anticipated title a week earlier than its official release date. User greeny69 shows off some of the opening menu screens, including a screen detailing the control setup for the game, as well as another that reveals the “OctoCamo,” which will let you blend in against a wall if you lie still against it.

He promises his screens won’t contain any spoilers, and so far that is the case. Whether or not he will post more is a mystery at this point, but stay tuned for updates!

[gamefaqs.com / via N4G]

For lack of a more complex or nuanced term, I can really only describe some of these new ads in the aforementioned fashion. Among the many bizarre and undoubtedly well-financed sights are sexy kung-fu terrorists, a giant robot praying mantis, and some scantily-clad girls who are lounging around with an octopus with a skull for a head. We all knew that sex sells in America, but tentacles? Perhaps this is part of some larger “weird Japanese fetish awareness” project that Konami is spearheading.

Supposedly they are all fake adverts for the fictional private military companies in the world of MGS4, and some of them actually touch on the futuristic themes and kinds of technologies we can expect to see in the game.  What was accomplished is the generation of an increased amount of hype and discussion over the game’s release, so I guess he’s doing something right.

[Kotaku / via Destructoid]

Metal Gear Solid 4 looks amazing! This is definitely one of my fave MGS4 trailers so far because we see a lot of the characters who will play their part and boy are there a lot of ‘em! With characters from Metal Gear Solid 1, 2 and 3 making appearances, we can rest assured that the fourth installment will have the biggest cast of characters in a Metal Gear Solid game to date.

With this being the Metal gear Solid’s swan song there are more than a few loose ends to tie up and questions that need to be answered. Will Ocelot finally die? How did Snake age so fast? What the f**k happened to Raiden? Why won’t Vamp just die? Why is Olga’s daughter so damn ugly? Why is Eva still wearing plunging necklines at the age of 70? Is that black man what Michael Jackson would look like if he hadn’t dyed his skin, ruined his face with plastic surgery and kept his pet monkey?

Xbox 360 owners needn’t worry about missing out on some Solid Snake action. I’m pretty sure Metal Gear Solid 4: Supersubsistatenance will probably be releasing for the 360 in late 2008, early 2009.

Don’t worry. Hideo Kojima hasn’t gone all Kingdom Hearts on us. Beauty and the best is the name of the new unit of bosses in Metal Gear Solid 4. Check ‘em out.

So the world finally gets to see Metal Gear Solid 4 in action! Yaaaaay! The game looks brilliant. It doesn’t have me itching to get a PlayStation 3, but I’m a lot more interested in this game than I was initially. From the gameplay footage the game appears to sport the less enclosed areas of MGS3, along with the feel of a Tom Clancy Advanced warfighter game. But undoubtedly we’ll get the usual bunkers and facilities that pop up in every Metal Gear game. Enough of me talking. Check out the awesome video.

This gameplay footage definitely puts Snake’s sexuality in question doesn’t it. It now seems he has a desire for holding onto the penis’s of a male statues, taking soldiers from behind and then grinding over their unconscious bodies, dry humping the floor and fondling other men’s balls at gun point. I guess we should’ve known from the start. His code name along with the title of Snake’s last adventure says it all really: Solid Snake, Snake eater. *slaps forehead* D’uh!!

Everybody will be able to get their mitts on Snake and his dirty old hands at some point next year. At this time it’s still unknown whether this game will appear on the Xbox 360 - but I think we will definitely see it ported to Microsoft’s system by the end of 2008. Probably in the form of Metal Gear Solid 4 Supersubsistence X or something like that.

This is old news. But I’ve looked around on to other gaming blogs and couldn’t find a lick of this fan made Metal Gear Solid movie. And considering that I’m still waiting on news about the movie, I usually just watch this over and over again… It’s a Taiwanese fan trailer – and a damn good one at that. One of the best I’ve seen yet. So check out the video, you Metal Gear lovers.