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Metal Gear Solid 4 is officially titled Guns of the Patriots. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (commonly abbreviated to MGS4) is a stealth-based game directed by Hideo Kojima and Shuyo Murata. Guns of the Patriots is currently being developed by Kojima Productions for the PlayStation 3 video game console. The game uses the motto “no place to hide” with the theme of “senses”.

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Silent Hill Origins tells the tale of a solitary truck driver stuck in the terrifying town while making a routine delivery. New gameplay elements, such as a barricade system that lets players block off rooms from enemies, and an enhanced camera system deliver an added sense of isolation and anxiety in this frightening adventure.

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At E3 in 2006, Sony rolled with a lengthy series of brief game trailers demonstrating some of the titles currently in development for the system. One of the more highly anticipated of these was Tekken 6, first revealed for the PlayStation 3 at Sony’s press conference a year ago. The game was shown very briefly in the form of a trailer during the press conference, which was cut from a longer version shown by Namco Bandai.

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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Zeruda no Densetsu Towairaito Purinsesu) is a video game in Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series, for the Wii and Nintendo GameCube. Originally planned for release in November 2005, Nintendo delayed it so that the developers could add more content and fine-tune the game. The Wii versions were released on the console’s launch dates of November 19, 2006 in North America, December 2, 2006 in Japan, December 8, 2006 in Europe, and December 7, 2006 in Australia, making Twilight Princess the first Zelda game to debut alongside the launch of a Nintendo console.

Twilight Princess is the first game in The Legend of Zelda series to be rated T by the ESRB, for animated blood and fantasy violence.

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Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Metal Slug by joining the Metal Slug team on 7 separate adventures that span across the life of the franchise in this definitive collection.

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SCE is celebrating the tenth year anniversary of “Wild Arms” series with the fifth title in the series, “The Vth Vanguard”. “Wild Arms The Vth Vanguard” continues the tradition of three main characters.

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Konami has procured licenses for 20 more teams this year, including the full roster of Argentina and, finally, the Netherlands. While WE9 was the first title in the franchise to go online, WE2007 will offer online play on all platforms, including handhelds and Xbox 360. The title also offers a new International Challenge mode that Konami says is a grand tournament featuring the world’s best international teams.

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Source: Chicago Tribune
By Eric Benderoff and Alex L. Goldfayn

Carroll McMahon didn’t think she was buying her son a dangerous toy when she paid twice the list price on eBay for a Nintendo Wii so it would be under the tree on Christmas morning.

But on Friday, the key part to Nintendo’s hot new video game system was put under a voluntary recall. The strap that attaches the wandlike controller to a player’s wrist can break easily, sending the device flying, in some cases right through television screens.

Nintendo also warned its customers to throttle back on the enthusiastic play.

Since the Wii’s introduction in mid-November, Wii users have reported cracked TV screens, bruised foreheads and other misadventures caused by controllers flying out of the hands of overly aggressive users.

Jaana Baker, 23, cracked her LCD screen during a particularly spirited round of Wii bowling after snapping the controller’s wrist strap and sending it into her flat-screen TV. (Chris Carlson / Associated Press)

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Gran Turismo HD

Polyphony Digital head Kazunori Yamauchi spoke about the next Gran Turismo title in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu. There were two points of interest in the article. First, the parenthetical “working title” has been dropped from the name, implying that Gran Turismo HD is indeed the final title. Second, while Yamauchi lavished praise on the game’s high-definition graphics, he stated that the game was not the true next-gen heir to the popular racing series’ crown.

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Introducing Nintendo Wii…

Nintendo’s new generation console, which was formerly codenamed Revolution, is now simply named Wii. For the record, it’s pronounced like “we,” despite the different and deliberately odd spelling. Nintendo announced the official name of Wii on April 27, 2006.

The Wii brand is designed to accentuate the console’s unique controller (as represented by the ‘ii’ in the title) and its ability to bring gamers of all types together, hence the name “we.”

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