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Japan-hosted multiplayer servers are being shut down to conserve power in the wake of the earthquake and associated nuclear power plant damage.

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Konami’s released a new update for Metal Gear Online that’ll stop “fraudulent network connections.”

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Kenichiro Imaizmu, producer of the Metal Gear Solid series at Kojima Productions, has revealed that Hideo Kojima had tried to build his own controller for Metal Gear Solid 4.

“We tried running electric shock waves, install a pulse reader … we also tried to build a controller that’s receptive to the strength of the [player's] grip,” he said. “We tried a lot, even a transforming controller.”

Sounds a bit painful, that shocking bit.

More over on Joystiq.

Sony has confirmed that not only will MotorStorm: Pacific Rift and Resistance 2 be added to the firm’s platinum range of games, but Killzone 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4 are expected to be released for it as well.

Each has sold over 400,000 units and the new packaging will see the price of each get knocked down to £19.99.

No release date has been announced yet, but some UK retailers are already offering the games for that price.

More over on GI.biz.

Trophies. Metal Gear Solid 4. Never the twain shall meet. Or will they? Kojima Productions’ Sean Eyestone, speaking in this podcast, has thrown the whinging masses yet another lifeline.

Just to address one issue that we’ve been getting a lot of comments about. And this is, of course, about trophies.

I just wanna tell everybody out there right now that your voices are being heard and that we’re not ignoring you. We hear everything that you are saying. It’s just that we can’t say anything just yet.

But as soon as we have something to say, we will announce it. So, if we can just ask everyone to just be patient, we will give you an answer. But right now we can’t say anything. So we just ask for everyone’s understanding with that and just ask for everybody to remain patient and we’ll let you know.

What will you all live for when Trophies get added? It’ll be like legalising heroin: all the fun’ll be knocked out of it.

Thanks, Examiner and CVG.

Next Sunday, Best Buy will stock shelves with a lovely PS3 bundle that includes Metal Gear Solid 4 and Killzone 2.

It’s the 80Gb model, and you get all three for $400.

Basically, that’s getting both games free because that particular SKU retails for $399.99.

More over on Kotaku.

Konami announced today that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has joined the PS3 Greatest Hits Collection.

On June 16, the game will be made available at retail for the new price of $29.99.

Press release is after the break.

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Sony just confirmed six new titles for the Greatest Hits range for PS3, including GT5 Prologue and MGS4. A hint? Very possibly.

The list:

• Army of Two, Electronic Arts
• Battlefield: Bad Company, Electronic Arts
• Devil May Cry 4, Capcom
• Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Sony Computer Entertainment America
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Konami
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Sony Computer Entertainment America

As of June 16, this lot will cost $30.

Konami has posted record sales figures for fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, with total sales reaching $3.24 billion which is a y-o-y increase of 4.2 percent.

Net income fell 40.7 percent ($114m) over last year, but revenue in the Digital Entertainment division increased 4.9 percent to $1.96 billion.

Worldwide, Metal Gear Solid 4 stood at 4.75 million units with Metal Gear Online claiming 1.3 million registered users, and the Pro Evolution Soccer series sold over 8.48 million units.

More numbers and figures are posted on Gamasutra.

Hideo Kojima was given “Person of the Year” honors at the Famitsu Awards in Japan today.

Solid Snake was given “Character of the Year,” and Metal Gear Solid 4 won the “High Quality” prize.

Other winners included Capcom for “Company of the Year,” as well as “Game of the Year” and “Best Seller” awards for Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G.

The annual Famitsu Awards recognize the year’s top performers.

Full list follows the break.

Via 1UP.

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Metal Gear Solid 4 is to be released as a budget PS3 title in Europe.

As of March 5, you’ll be able to buy Snake’s latest for a piffling £20, €30 if you’re on the mainland.

You should probably buy it for that, innit.

During an interview with The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, God of War’s David Jaffe said the game he was “most jealous” of was Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4 and that the dev team must have had real “tenacity and vision” to make a game of that quality. writes Joystiq.

“To make a game of that scale and at that level of quality clearly took a whole hell of a lot of tenacity and vision,” he explained.

Jaffe recently said he thinks God of War III looks “like nothing you’ve ever played.”

By Mike Bowden

According to this V for Videogames piece, a Sony rep has said the company expects Killzone 2 sales to be as good, if not better than Metal Gear Solid 4.

“It would be a lie to say Sony has not invested heavily in Killzone 2 and each individual at Guerilla games has worked even harder to satisfy any expectations kept by the company and their loyal community,” said the rep.

“I do see the game breaking a barrier with a huge variety of groups and expect it to see sales as good as Metal Gear Solid 4 if not beyond it.”

More through the link.

By Mike Bowden

Back in June, Amazon.com sold out of the Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle in just in just seven minutes flat for a price of $599. Now, just four months later, Wal-mart is selling the same “limited edition” bundle for just $399.

So, time to start weighing up whether buying a PlayStation 3 with Metal Gear Solid 4 four months ago was worth $200 of your hard-earned or not.

We’re not saying anything.

By Mike Bowden

Konami’s announced a $232.8 million profit for the first half of the year, with the firm’s video game business posting $268 million in operating income.

More than 4 million units of MGS4 – more than a third of total game sales – were sold in the period, with the games division pulling in about $950 million in revenue.

That’s “healthy.” More on Kotaku.

Following the release of a Metal Gear Solid 4 demo in Japan today, the free test is now available for download on the European PSN.

The demo’s there now on the UK PS Store, and we’re reliably informed by VG247 reader Syrok that it’s available in Holland as well.

The download will afford you a run through the game’s first Mid-Eastern level.

So go get it.

Konami’s announced that Metal Gear Online has more than 1 million “members” worldwide.

To commemorate the milestone, the company is to launch the imaginatively titled, Metal Gear Online: Commemorative Campaign.

Beginning on November 25, those who access the game will receive award points, which can be used to buy new online gear from the “in-game reward shop.”

Press release after the break.

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As you can see on Amazon, the MGS4 special edition PS3 is now available for pre-order ahead of a November 4 launch.

Yours for a piffling $449.99. Assuming you live in America.

Thanks, PS3F.

According to this Gamecyte report, MorningStar has replaced a TGS quote attributed to a Konami rep saying the firm was looking at porting MGS4 to 360.

The story says that the amended piece “now quotes a different Konami representative and mentions entirely different game series (Winning Eleven 2009 and Castlevania) to back up their thesis that companies are leaning towards multiplatform release.”

More through there. This will never, ever die.

Scooparama. MCV’s posted a quote from Xbox Live boss John Schappert saying 360 has enough grunt to handle MGS4.

“I can’t speak on behalf of Konami, but I can shed more light on the fact that we definitely have the power to run MGS4,” he said.

“I’m certainly in the fan club that would love to see Kojima-san’s masterpiece come our way,” Schappert added. “It would be wonderful to play Metal Gear Solid on the Xbox. It could become another of the many franchises that started their life on another console that are now coming our way.

“There are a lot of recent examples that are in true high-def on our platform and aren’t on PS3. We’ve got an amazing amount of horsepower and graphics power.”

This is so happening. More through the link.