Geekscape Games Podcast: Level 91 – ‘Geekscape Heroes’

No, it’s not a Pachinko or mobile game either, but a real console Metal Gear game! Let’s check it out shall we? (Wow Golly this sure is exciting. Obviously nothing can go wrong.)

Z………..Zombie game? I-it’s just a zombie game? Oh, ok. I-it’s not like I wanted an actual Metal Gear game with an original story or anything. I mean, obviously this is the right move. Online multiplayer survival games are all the rage right now. Just take a look at the amazing success and critical/user darling that is Resident Evil: Umbrella Corp.

SERVERS ARE BOOMING AND ARE AT AN ALL TIME HIGH!

Anyways, Metal Gear Survive is expected to launch sometime in 2017 and crush peoples hopes and dreams of ever getting a proper MGS game within the next 10 years. The disappointment is expected to launch for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

E3 2015: Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain Trailer!

by Shane O'HareJune 15, 2015

Konami has silently (well not TOO silently) released a brand new trailer for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. It has me PUMPED!

https://youtu.be/3_pLJlVuCw8

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be available starting September 1st on PlayStation®3, PlayStation®4, Xbox 360® and Xbox One in the US and Europe and September 2nd in Japan.

We got ourselves some peaks at more of the story. I will admit, I haven’t been keeping up on things in the Metal Gear universe. Skipping the PS2 and PS3, I missed a lot of franchise’s releases.

What is most notable about this trailer, is the full on front and center inclusion of Hideo Kojima. If you haven’t been following the narrative that has been going with the whole PT/Silent Hills debacle, then…well then seeing Kojima’s name on it shouldn’t surprise you.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain hits store shelves September 1st!

‘Metal Gear Solid V’ Collector’s Edition Detailed, Includes Bionic Arm

by Derek KraneveldtMarch 4, 2015

Briefly: It seems like it’s taken forever for Konami to announced just when we’d be able to get our grabby hands on the insanely anticipated Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, but a could of days back (after a nice little leak), the company finally revealed that the game will drop on September 1st.

Now they’ve detailed the collector’s edition, and it’s damned cool. The collector’s edition will come in both ‘Day One’ and regular limited editions, and will include the following:

‘ Day 1 Edition ’ Content:
· MAP (Physical Version Only)

DLC items
· Adam-ska Special Handgun
· Personal Ballistic Shield (Silver)
· Cardboard Box (Wetland)
· Fatigues (Blue Urban Snake Costume)
· METAL GEAR ONLINE XP BOOST
*Steam version will include the above DLC content at launch

‘Collector’s Edition’ Content:
· Half Scale Replica of Snake’s Bionic Arm
· Collectible SteelBook
· Behind the Scenes Documentary & Trailers Blu-ray Disc
· MAP
· Exclusive Packaging

DLC items
WEAPON & SHIELD PACK
· Windurger S333 Combat Special Revolver
· Adam-ska Special Handgun
· Maschinen aktische Pistole 5 Weiss Special Handgun
· Rasp Short-Barreled Shotgun Gold
· Personal Ballistic Shield　(Olive Drab)
· Personal Ballistic Shield　(Silver)
· Personal Ballistic Shield　(White)
· Personal Ballistic Shield　(Gold)

CARDBOARD BOXES
· Cardboard Box (Rocky Terrain)
· Cardboard Box (All-Purpose Dryland)
· Cardboard Box (Wetland)

SNAKE COSTUMES
· Fatigues (Black Ocelot)
· Fatigues (Gray Urban)
· Fatigues (Blue Urban)
· Fatigues (All-Purpose Dryland)

Other
· ‘VENOM SNAKE’ Emblem

MGO BOOST
· METAL GEAR ONLINE XP BOOST

MGO Items
· Metal Gear Rex Helmet
· AM MRS-4 GOLD Assault Rifle
· WU S. PITSOL GOLD

Yeah, it’s a lot of downloadable content (including not one, but THREE different cardboard boxes), but the Steelbook looks pretty rad… oh yeah, and it comes with a freaking half scale bionic arm. Looks like it’s time to change up my preorder.

Are you looking forward to Metal Gear Solid V? Which edition do you plan to pick up? Sound out below!

‘Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’ To Include ‘Metal Gear Online’, Watch The Gameplay Trailer!

by Derek KraneveldtDecember 8, 2014

Briefly: Konami debuted the first footage from their next iteration of the venerable Metal Gear Online at Friday’s VGA’s, and the company has now confirmed that MGO will debut as a piece of the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain retail package.

Yep, basically a whole ‘nother game included in what’s already set to be a lengthy package. In the “third iteration of the popular multiplayer game, newly redesigned with the familiar gameplay and aesthetic styling of its companion single-player campaign Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. With a focus on Tactical Team Operations, the game features a ‘class system’ that more uniquely defines the strengths and abilities of player characters on the battle field. Key characters from the series including Venom Snake and Ocelot will also make appearances in the anticipated multiplayer feature.

Colour us excited. I actually missed out on Metal Gear Online last time around, and after hearing all of the praise for the last version, I really can’t wait to get my hands on this one. Take a look at the gameplay trailer below (don’t miss that ending) and be sure to let us know what you think!

Geekscape Games Podcast: Level 8 – Captain Toad: Awakens

by GeekscapeStaffNovember 29, 2014

Join Derek, Josh, Juan and Shane as they discuss the last week in games!

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This Week

Telltale’s Game of Thrones get’s a release date.

Metal Gear: Online.

Evolve DLC Maps going to be released for FREE!

Amiibo prices.

/r/cummingonfigurines.

This War of Mine makes back entire dev coast in two days.

Nintendo applies for emulation patent.

Ubisoft apologizes for being terrible, offers free DLC and games.

Batman: Arkhan Knight.

Never Alone

Smash Bros.

Captain Toad Treasure Tracker.

Diablo 3 PS4.

Evil Within.

Pokemon Omega Ruby.

Shadow of Mordor.

This Week’s Listener Mission Objective & Contest!

This week we are giving away a copy of either Pokemon: Omega Ruby OR Pokemon: Alpha Sapphire! Directions on how to enter are in this episode! So give it a listen!

What is your favorite Pokemon, and why?

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‘Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes’ Gets A Release Date!

by Derek KraneveldtDecember 9, 2013

Briefly: Konami has just announced the release date of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes.

The announcement comes via a new trailer for the game, which details the Xbox exclusive ‘Jamais Vu’ mission. The mission has you playing as Metal Gear Rising Raiden, who has come from the future to… well, watch the trailer and find out! In any case, this looks so much cooler than the Playstation exclusive ‘Deja Vu’ mission.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will launch on March 18th, 2014. The game is coming to Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One, and will act as the standalone prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Take a look at the ‘Jamais Vu’ trailer below, and let us know what you think!

http://youtu.be/ETP-gjGJOME

Metal Gear Solid Legacy Boxed Set Appears Online

by Shane O'HareApril 19, 2013

What is this?! A BOX?! Psy isn’t the only thing to come out of Korea recently. A Korean game ratings board website has posted a new stack of games. One of them is something called Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection for PS3. Couple that with the recently Tweeted pic from Hideo, we can rumormill that this is most probably true.

From this image we can surmise that the collection will have MGS 1, 2, 3, 4 AND Peace Walker. AGAIN, nothing is confirmed as this is still in the rumor mill, but the Korean Gaming site was also the one that broke the news for Resident Evil Revelations.

You can be sure that as soon as more info is released we will tell you about it!

New PS3 Owner? Check Out Some Awesome Deals On PSN This Week!

by Derek KraneveldtDecember 24, 2012

Steam, the App Store, Good Old Games: it seems as though every digital game store currently has titles on sale. Playstation owners aren’t left out of course, and the PSN deals this week are particularly awesome!

Sony has branded it as the Holiday Essentials Sale, and it’s bound to make both new owners (who may not even be owners until tomorrow) and current owners alike ecstatic; there are some great games here, for some unbelievably low prices.

Duke Nukem Forever (Sale: $13.99, PS Plus: $9.80, Regular: $19.99)
Galaga Legions DX (Sale: $6.99, PS Plus: $4.90, Regular: $9.99)
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational Vita (Sale: $12.49, PS Plus: $8.74, Regular: $17.99)
Journey (Sale: $10.49, PS Plus: $7.35, Regular: $14.99)
Killzone 3 Multiplayer (Sale: $10.49, PS Plus: $7.35, Regular: $14.99)
Mafia II (Sale: $13.99, PS Plus: $9.80, Regular: $19.99)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater – HD Edition PS3 (Sale: $10.49, PS Plus: $7.35, Regular: $14.99)
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection PS Vita (Sale: $24.49, PS Plus: $17.14, Regular: $34.99)
Mortal Kombat (Sale: $20.99, PS Plus: $14.70, Regular: $29.99)
Papo & Yo (Sale: $10.49, PS Plus: $7.35, Regular: $14.99)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (Sale: $10.49, PS Plus: $7.35, Regular: $14.99)
Retro City Rampage (Sale: $10.49, PS Plus: Free, Regular: $14.99)
Retro City Rampage PS Vita (Sale: $10.49, PS Plus: Free, Regular: $14.99)
Simpsons The Arcade Game (Sale: $6.99, PS Plus: $4.90, Regular: $9.99)
Starhawk (Sale: $27.99, PS Plus: $19.60, Regular: $39.99)
Unit 13 (Sale: $18.49, PS Plus: $12.94, Regular: $26.99)

Journey (which was just nominated for a Grammy), Papo & Yo, and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater are my must-haves. There are also a few Vita titles on there, which remind me of the terrible, terrible time that I owned a Vita.

Have fun, happy holidays, and hopefully you at least pick up Journey (seriously, it’s amazing).

‘Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’ Xbox360 Gets Canceled… In Japan

by Shane O'HareSeptember 12, 2012

Today from a Konami Japan Press Release, it was announced that the Japanese Xbox 360 release of the MUCH anticipated Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, will not actually happen. The press release in English reads:

This time, we plan to release on February 21, 2013
Regarding software for Xbox360 Version of “Metal Gear Rising re vengeance”,
due to various reasons, the launch of the Japanese version be made only PlayStation ® 3 indeed without permission I was going to get.
Customers We have been looking forward to the launch in the Xbox360, to everyone of the persons concerned, and
sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that will be multiplied. Look forward to pardon humbly for your understanding, thank you.

You get all that? No reason WHY was given, but Konami has said that the US release of the 360 version will happen with no problems. This is a really peculiar happening, if we find out more we will keep you up to date.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance ships on both Xbox 360 and PS3 on February 21st (MY BIRTHDAY!) 2013.

‘Metal Gear: Ground Zeroes’ Demoed At 25th Anniversary Event

by Shane O'HareAugust 30, 2012

Alongside the fantastic movie confirmation, the 25th anniversary event had a few tasty treats for gamers as well as film fans. A live demo for the new Metal Gear game (Called “Ground Zeroes”) was shown. No footage was released online but this image was leaked.

One amazing person was tweeting details as they happened during the demo. Mark MacDonald was there sharing everything juicy as it happened. Some of the important details were:

Demo of “Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes”, started w cutscene (all realtime), went into gameplay, open world, night, raining, base. AMAZING

Snake crawled @ avoiding searchlights, killed guard, rode jeep, called in heli for evac. Sounds like MG, but the scale & atmosphere… Wow.

So from the little bit we do know is that this could be an open world style game with weather playing a big portion in the stealth. 4Gamer.net was able to confirm some of the voice actors from previous Metal Gear games. Specifically the Japanese actor for Miller from Peacewalker.

No other news yet, but hopefully PAX will shed more light on this new game.

‘Metal Gear Solid’ Is Finally Coming To The Big Screen

by Shawn MaddenAugust 29, 2012

The Metal Gear video games have always been quite heavily cinematic. For quite some time a live-action adaptation of the series has been in the works and after five years it seems that now the project is indeed moving forward. Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has announced that the adaptation is in the works. Quite recently a journalist from Japan released a tweet that included an image from the Metal Gear Anniversary in Tokyo:

@ItCameFromJapan:

#MetalGear movie? Notice the Columbia logo on this display at the #MG25 event. @OXM @PSM3_Magazine @Pelaaja @OPM_UK http://ow.ly/i/TixK

The image shows more than one thing. First you can notice the Columbia Pictures log in it and that you can notice that it says Metal Gear Solid followed by Japanese characters that translate into “Hollywood Movie”. Avi Arad, the CEO and founder of Marvel Studios, joined Hideo Kojima onstage and announced that he will be the one producing the adaptation.

“For many years I fought to bring comics to theaters. Comic books are now the biggest genre in cinema and video games are the comics of today. We will take our time and tell the story with all the nuances, ideology, cautionary tales needed.”

Is there any release date and news further than that? No. But expect news to start popping up over the next few months.

The question we have for you, do you think it will be live action or CG? What would YOU prefer?

Source: Kotaku

Konami announces HD Version of Zone of the Enders 1 + 2

by Steven KunzMarch 4, 2012

Coming this fall, Konami is going to be releasing a remastered version of both Zone of the Enders AND Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner!

Zone of the Enders, for those who don’t know, was a 2001 PS2 game developed by Kojima Productions. Many people bought it because it had a demo for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, but marketing tactics aside, the gameplay was fantastic, the story was surprisingly decent, and piloting a giant robot that destroys other giant robots was as natural and easy as jumping on a goomba in Super Mario Brothers. ZOE: The 2nd Runner built on that with improved gameplay, an epic story, graphics that are still completely mind-blowing to this day, and a ton of extras unlocked once you beat the main game that will keep you coming back for more.

These games are beloved and hard to find, especially ‘The 2nd Runner’. Now they will be available outside of the PS2 and will see a release on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Tomoyuki Tsuboi, President of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc, had this to say regarding the re-release:

We are looking forward to bringing the legendary Zone of the Enders series to fans old and new in a high definition format with the Zone of Enders HD Collection.

As of now, there is no information regarding extras or updates in the game aside from the graphics. Personally, I’m hoping that with ‘The 2^nd Runner’, we get all the content that was included in the special edition that was only available in Japan, but even a straight port with remastered graphics will still make for a great experience.

Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/163460/KONAMI_ANNOUNCES_ZONE_OF_THE_ENDERS_HD_COLLECTION.php