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Konami’s just sent through some photos from the London midnight Zavvi opening for MGS4′s launch. Looks jolly, doesn’t it?

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After the link. The footage shows Snake’s camo options in action, and it’s all looking rather good, to be honest. Nearly good enough to go about and buy the game with a PS3. Nearly.

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Except us it seems. Still PS3F has got the skinny, with a ton of pictures of bundle-packs and limited editions sent in from around the world.

Check it out in envy. We are.

By Mike Bowden

In some of the best Engrish we’ve read from a Google translation in a while, you can just about make out the Konami has cancelled its Japanese Metal Gear Solid 4 launch event.

Reasons are as follows:

June 12 (Thursday) in three locations in Tokyo scheduled to take place today, METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS, the release of commemorative events at the aborted due to various reasons and in order to NARIMASHI Hoops.

Release commemorative events had been looking forward to welcome our guests are placed REMASHI,

We’re sorry, but thank you for your How do you do for your understanding.

Well, that cheered us up no end.

By Mike Bowden

Someone over at NeoGaf has posted the in-between-chapter install times for MGS4, the total install being 4.6Gb.

This comes at the same time as an in-game conversation between Snake and Otacon is revealed where Otacon is telling Snake he doesn’t have to change disks because of the capacity of Blu-ray.

As the Metal Gear Solid 4 street date was broken by Wal-Mart last week, spoilers and in-game have inevitably made their way onto the internet.

Spoilers through the link. Watch the video here.

By Mike Bowden

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It seems Wal-Mart has sold early copies of Metal Gear Solid 4, breaking the official street date of June 12.

Hideo Kojima however, remained contemplative.

“Despite the measurements taken by any publisher, high-profile games always seem to have one store, if not more, break their legal street date,” he said.

“This had been the case with many games before Metal Gear Solid 4 and it will be the case with many following it. This week, a couple of Wal-Marts were reported to have sold the Metal Gear Solid 80GB PS3 bundles up to a week before the scheduled release of the title on June 12.”

So there you have it.

By Mike Bowden

According to P3F, the exclusive-to-the-US 80GB MGS4 PS3 bundle sold out on Amazon.com in just seven minutes.

Demand for the bundle was so high, that it actually brought the retailer giant to its knees. Hilarious.

MGS4 will be released worldwide on June 12 and no, for the last time, us lowly Europeans aren’t getting the 80Gb DualShock 3 bundle. In fact we’re not getting a bundle at all. Only in Britain are they allowed to purchase the 40Gb gunmetal Sixaxis bundle from Play.

By Mike Bowden

MTV’s claiming that journalists reviewing MGS4 in the US were told to not mention the length of the game’s cut-scenes and the size of the title’s PS3 install by Konami. From the site:

I’ve been told by two gaming media sources who asked to remain anonymous that Konami representatives had been asking print reviewers to keep some technical details out of their reviews, namely the length of the game’s cut-scenes and the size of the game’s installation on the PlayStation 3.

Full thing through the link,

Oh Lord. It’s internet-snapping time. Eurogamer’s given Metal Gear Solid 4 8/10, which has a rather Halo-esque ring to it. The score’s in contrast to almost blanket top scores from other publications – including this 9.9/10 from IGN – and is already being twitched over in the review’s comments thread.

Leave now. Save yourself.

The first images of the European limited edition of Metal Gear Solid 4 have sneaked out, and it looks like a box with some pictures on it. A nice box with some pictures on it, but there we are. The shots are here and here.

Thanks, absolutezero.

On PS3Fanboy. Well, all over the internet, really, but there we are. Please bring out DualShock 3 very quickly so we don’t have to spend even more money just to play a decent game properly, SCEE. It’s out on June 12.

Missed this in the Gamer’s Day noise yesterday, but Kojima’s announced a world tour to promote the launch of Metal Gear 4. The developer will personally travel to London, followed by stops in Madrid, Milan, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Paris. Hideo’s entourage will then split into three, heading to Japan, New York and finally arrive in Los Angeles for the game’s launch day on June 12.

Thanks, IGN.

After the link. There’s a lot of stuff there to keep you going. This is all from the press event in Tokyo today, as covered by Kotaku. See for yourself. Beware: the last one is the intro movie.

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In an Edge interview posted in its entirety by Kotaku, MGS4 man Hideo Kojima has retracted some earlier comments about PS3 not being up to the job, saying the meaning of his words got lost in translation.

“It’s become totally different,” he said.

“This was in English, and here’s where it gets strange. Japanese readers then translated that in Japanese and put it on their websites, writing things like ‘Oh, the PS3 is dead.’ Then that spread through the internet and now people are writing things like, ‘Hideo Kojima is making MGS4 on the PS3.’

“This is no good… It’s funny how others think, ‘Did Hideo really say that?’ then ask me, and my answer is obviously ‘No’ but then… I guess I am responsible for all of the articles…”

No, we don’t understand him either. However, you can read what Kojima really meant about the the PS3 when he talks about flying cars in space at MACH speed through the link.

By Mike Bowden

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Sony’s shown off the limited edition steel PS3 for its Japanese Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle. In all fairness, this does look pretty cool. There’s approximately no chance of this coming out over here, but we can but dream.

Here. If only the words “shots released” in that headline could have been replaced with “bundle announced for Europe”. Then we could have all been happy. The game releases in Europe and the US on June 12.

Here. The shots are taken from five different maps from the online starter pack, namely Ambush Alley, Gronznyj Grad, Midtown Maelstrom, Urban Ultimatum and Blood Bath.

MGS4 was confirmed today for release in the US and Europe on June 12.

According to this, MGS4 will only include one language per region because of disc space.

“Unfortunately because of disc space, we don’t have the space to include other languages, other voice over files for the respective versions,” said producer Ryan Payton. “So the Japanese version’s not gonna have English VO, and the North American and European versions won’t have Japanese VO.”

Obviously, this means if you buy the Japanese version, you won’t be able to understand any of it. Unless you speak Japanese, of course.

The game’s now been confirmed for a June 12 release for both the US and Europe.

According to this, MGS4 will be released on June 12 in Europe as well as the US. The piece says it’s from an announcement, but we haven’t seen it yet.

Update: The announcement’s been made. Press release after the link.

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SCEA and SCEE are obviously comfortable in their decisions. According to this, SCEA isn’t going to be bringing the two European bundles we saw today to Europe.

“On Tuesday we announced our plans for the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots PS3 bundle for North America,” said an SCEA spokesperson. “We currently do not have any plans for additional PS3 bundles.”

SCEE’s already said that the MGS4 bundle is unlikely to be heading from the US to Europe.

It’s worth noting that the GT5 Prologue and Movie Pack bundles weren’t officially announced this morning, although it all looked solid enough. As we said earlier, SCEE’s said its going to announce a final date for the Polyphony racer next week, so it’s reasonable to expect the bundles to be confirmed then as well.