Metal Gear Online's next update has plenty to offer both types of players.
]]>Survival mode is for teams that can get a good win streak going.
]]>The Cloaked in Silence DLC for Metal Gear Online drops today, so get pumped and watch the reveal trailer.
]]>Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain players can take everyone's favourite taciturn sniper online later this month.
]]>More information pertaining to Quiet, coming with the Metal Gear Online Cloaked in Silence update, has been posted by Konami.
]]>The Cloaked in Silence update for Metal Gear Online will release in March, and as previously revealed, it adds new maps and Quiet as a buddy character.
]]>Quiet will be added to Metal Gear Online along with new maps in an upcoming content update.
]]>Metal Gear Solid 5 players on PC are now able to shoot each other in the face in Metal Gear Online.
]]>The Metal Gear Online beta has been taken offline temporarily.
]]>$12,000 is on the line in a month-long global Metal Gear Online battle.
]]>Konami has confirmed the closure of the Los Angeles branch of Kojima Productions.
]]>Konami has apologized for launch issues experienced with Metal Gear Online by handing out in-game items.
]]>Oh boy. Where do I start? Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is one of the year’s best games. Well, the single-player portion of it anyway. The multiplayer end, Metal Gear Online, will become nothing more than curiosity for most of the player-base, owed to a combination of bizarrely backwards decisions and gameplay that doesn't offer anything new or interesting.
]]>Metal Gear Online isn't a straight forward multiplayer shooter. Let Arekkz show you the ropes.
]]>Metal Gear Online is out now. What's so special about it?
]]>It's happening. The multiplayer mode for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has gone live.
]]>The download for Metal Gear Online 3 is 950MB and available to download now on the Japanese PlayStation store.
]]>A Metal Gear Online video has been released by Konami featuring a demo of the Bounty Hunter mode.
]]>We've known for a while that you'd be able to buy coins to upgrade Mother Base in Metal Gear Online, but now we have a better idea of how much they cost.
]]>Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain will now launch on all platforms September 1 and pre-orders on Steam net Ground Zeroes for free. There is a bit of bad news with this, though.
]]>Metal Gear 5: The Phantom Pain brings back multiplayer suite Metal Gear Online, complete with the ability to play dress ups.
]]>Metal Gear Online 3 is still a few months away, but get a head start on the competition by brushing up with everything we know so far.
]]>Metal Gear Solid Online will allow for up to 16 players on PC and current-gen consoles, according to the official website.
]]>Metal Gear Online developer Kojima Productions has provided significantly more insight into how the multiplayer side of The Phantom Pain works.
]]>We have hot new screens for Konami's Metal Gear Online, including one of Snake taking a selfie.
]]>During The Game Awards 2014 tonight, Hideo Kojima took the stage to set up a look at Metal Gear Solid Online.
]]>Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain's multiplayer suite will be shown off at The Game Awards next month.
]]>Metal Gear Online, one of the PS3’s earlier multiplayer success stories, has been brought back to life.
]]>Just a reminder that Metal Gear Online, the optional multiplayer component of 2008 release Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, is closing down forever today. The third-person team shooter fills us with fond memories of ridiculously long download times, irritating registration requirements and being shouted at by player character drill sergeants before you were allowed to actually play, and will be sorely missed. Possibly. Visit Konami's announcement page for more information, and while you're there, notice the mention of "this iteration of Metal Gear Online". Hello, imminent Metal Gear Online 2 announce?
]]>Konami's announced it's to close Metal Gear Online on June 21 after four years of service.
]]>Japan-hosted multiplayer servers are being shut down to conserve power in the wake of the earthquake and associated nuclear power plant damage.
]]>Konami's released a new update for Metal Gear Online that'll stop "fraudulent network connections."
]]>Konami's released the first trailer of Metal Gear Arcade.
Get it after the break.
]]>Konami's announced it's holding a six-on-six tournament for Metal Gear Online.
]]>Konami has released a new map, character and reward mode for Metal Gear Online for players who purchased the SCENE Expansion Pack.
The new Icebound Inferno map is the Shadow Moses map from the first Metal Gear Solid game and features an Arctic Island with large snowfield and various buildings.
Players can also play as Old Snake and use the Octo-cam suit as a weapon, however, Old Snake will not become completely invisible when using the suit. Instead, he will automatically blend with the environment.
The download will also include an Auto Matching Reward mode giving the match winner more reward points than normal.
Press release is posted after the break.
]]>Konami's put its Metal Gear Online bikini DLC live, in celebration of the game's first anniversary.
There's a video of it "in action" after the break. So exciting.
]]>Konami has unveiled the official release date and more details on SCENE Expansion for Metal Gear Online.
The expansion will be made available for $9.99 or as a bundle with the second expansion, MEME, for $14.99.
All three expansion packs - GENE, MEME and SCENE will cost $17.99 on March 17 via Metal Gear Online and Konami shops.
Starting March 10, those who pre-order the SCENE Expansion will receive "cardboard man" head gear for free -- just in case you forgot.
Loads of expansion details are posted after the jump.
]]>Konami's released a trailer showing off first game footage from SCENE Expansion, the latest Metal Gear Online booster pack.
SCENE includes:
Maps
- Outer Outlet - An Industrial Wasteland, made up of buildings and underground/above ground areas. Suitable for medium to long range attacks.
- Hazard House - An enormous three story mansion. Suitable for close to medium range combat.
- Ravaged Riverfront - Clock Tower, made up of underground, above ground, and under water areas. Suitable for medium to long range combat.
2 new special characters
- Raiden and Vamp - two highly anticipated characters with extraordinary physical abilities and overwhelming offensive power.
Pre-orders for SCENE will start the week prior to launch via Metal Gear Online's in-game shop and Konami's shop. Do so and you net some "cardboard man" head gear as a special free gift.
You'll be able to use PayPal along with the PlayStation Wallet for this transaction.
Read on for press release and the trailer can be viewed here.
]]>Konami's to release the Metal Gear Online MEME expansion on November 25, it confirmed this afternoon.
The pack will include three new maps - Silo Sunset, Forest Firefight and Winter Warehouse - as well as two new characters in Mei Ling and Liquid Ocelot.
There's a bunch of other stuff in there as well, including a No Headshot mode and an official Tournament lobby.
It'll be available for €7.99 from November 18, but you won't be able to use any of it until November 25.
Press release after the break.
]]>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.
]]>Konami's just confirmed the first European Metal Gear Online tournament, the first prize of which is a "luxury" trip to Tokyo.
Entry is open to players over 18 from all PAL territories. Register here. The first competition will be held on August 15.
Full details after the break.
]]>According to this NintendoEverything piece, Metal Gear dev star Hideo Kojima will return to Germany for Games Convention this year, after demoing MGS4 to press at the event in 2007.
]]>Dear Konami: sort it out. The delivery of MGO update Gene Expansion, has ended in yet another online calamity, with users paying for content and not receiving it, and the closure of Konami's MGO servers due to demand.
]]>Konami said today that the Metal Gear Online Gene Expansion will be available to download from July 17 for €9.99.
"The download adds a number of key features to the basic game, including new three new maps," said the release. "‘Coppertown Conflict’ boasts wide, open streets, ‘Tomb of Tubes’ is a labyrinth of underground passages, while ‘Virtuous Vista is a sprawling outdoor locale, and ideally suited to medium and long-range combat techniques."
It continues: "A new ‘Survival’ mode has also been added, wherein players are charged with staying alive for as long as possible within a series of increasingly challenging stages, while a Reward Shop has been added wherein accrued points can be traded for new gear.
"The new add-on also added Metal Gear Solid 4 heroes Meryl and Johnny to the list of playable characters, both of whom enjoy unique skills, and will be randomly allocated to players when their use is enabled. Finally, Kojima Productions has also added the ability to create female soldiers for those creating new characters."
Full thing after the break.
By Mike Bowden
]]>According to the game's official site, the Metal Gear Online Gene Expansion is now available. The update includes new maps, a new "Survival" mode, a new character slot and new weapons. May as well get it, innit.
]]>Hideo Kojima revealed at a signing event in Tokyo yesterday, that Metal Gear Online’s solo mission will begin on July 17, with a price tag of 1,800 yen (about $17 or €11). However, no details were given about a release outside of Japan.
]]>According to this GameRush report, SCEA's promised that more MGS4 bundles are on the way to the States, a move necessary as the pack is much sought-after.
]]>Says so on N4G. The Database was announced overnight for inclusion in today's PSN update, but it wasn't clear which regions would get it. It looks as though the US definitely will in addition to Japan, so keep everything crossed the pack will turn up in in the PAL release later today.
]]>Sony's announced on the US PlayStation blog that today's PSN update will include an app called the MGS4 Database. From the site:
]]>As you can see from this GameStation page, Konami's going to release a limited edition Metal Gear Solid 4 watch later this year, for the bargain price of £100.
]]>GI's reporting that MGS4 has had a mere 7 percent impact on PS3 sales in the past week, despite a massive increase in hardware moved in Japan.
]]>In a letter on the site, IGN US has said that it won't be reviewing Metal Gear Solid 4 until it can properly play Metal Gear Online.
]]>After the link. It's out tomorrow, but don't let that stop you. These videos show a lot of shooting. If you don't like shooting, you're in the wrong place. Don't forget the woman saying "contact," either.
Take a look.
]]>After the break. It's Metal Gear Solid with a woman saying "contact". Sorry, but it is. It looks very pretty, as you'll see, and potentially it looks a little fiddly. Look for yourself. The game's out on Thursday, so keep watching until then. Over and over and over.
]]>According to this Joystiq story, the 80Gb Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle to to be made available for pre-order on Amazon.com today.
]]>And here it is. There aren't any spoilers there that we can see. Just character art and a picture of Hideo Kojima when he was young. Look, if you dare.
]]>Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima's given a gold-dust interview to IGN (watch it after the link), saying that Metal Gear Solid 4 has been made for those that have followed the series for the past decade, and admitting his relief that the game is about to launch.
"It's been ten years since Metal Gear Solid was released in the US for the first time," said the Japanese dev legend. "People who are experiencing Metal Gear Solid for the first time will enjoy it, but it also adds more enjoyment to the people who have followed MGS for ten years, because you can always look back and think about what you were doing ten years ago, or five years ago, and look back to your life, to yourself.
"I want people to play MGS4 and feel what they were doing ten years ago, or four years ago... I've chucked all those elements in there, so you could look back to your life, to yourself, so that you can absorb that and go beyond that in the future as well. That's the part where I emphasise it is for the users. It is for the people who love the Metal Gear series."
He added: "We finally finished creating the game, and also we got assurance that we can release the game simultaneously worldwide. That's why overall I said I'm relieved not. But also I'm kind of excited and nervous and how [the game will] be perceived."
Other topics covered in the chat are the inclusion of an iPod in the game, the Assassin's Creed costume and lessons learned from the MGO beta. Must-watch.
]]>This is only going to get worse. According to this GameSetLinks piece, US paper-staple EGM has refused to score Metal Gear Solid 4 because Konami attempted to censor certain aspects of the review.
]]>Someone's scanned and posted up Edge's entire Metal Gear Solid 4 review, joint lowest so far according to Metacritic, alongside Eurogamer's identical score. The pages are huge, so you may have to wait a while for them to load. Hit this and this for the entire thing.
]]>GamePro has called CVG out on a story this morning that said some of the cut-scenes in Metal Gear Solid 4 are 90 minutes long.
]]>The Metal Gear Online Beta has now closed it gates. If you try and log on you get this short but rather informative message:
]]>According to this official US PlayStation blog post, the top Metal Gear Online clans are about to be invited to play Konami devs at the beta.
]]>SCEJ's announced a "Welcome Box" MGS4 bundle for Japan, to include a 40Gb PS3, a DualShock 3, the game and a Sixaxis for 49,800 yen (£240).
"They can't even give them away!", etc.
Press release after the link. Still no word on whether or not we're going to see any MGS4 bundling in Europe, but hope spring eternal.
Update: There are shots of the boxes on Watch Impress. It comes in three colours.
]]>Just like Halo 3, Metal Gear Online – and most likely the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid 4: Sons of the Patriots – runs at a sub-HD resolution.
]]>According to this DarkZero story, the Metal Gear Online beta is now live in Europe.
]]>This is either going to be great or a complete disaster: or both. Konami's released a version 1.2 patch of the Metal Gear Online beta client ahead of a scheduled start for the test tonight in Europe, the US and Japan. Get it while you can. The start of the beta was delayed earlier this week due to high traffic, so it'll be interesting to see if Konami can make the magic happen. Good luck with that.
]]>We missed this last night, but the Konami ID registration site is now back up. There's a "quick registration" bit for the Metal Gear Online beta, should you not yet be weary of having to sort out three exclusive IDs and watch everything explode every 10 minutes to play a test version of a game that's going to be released in a couple of months.
]]>We're not sure how anyone did this, but you can find seven movies of Metal Gear Online being played on N4G. We've put one of them after the link.
They're from the Japanese version of the beta, from the look of it, which has now been pushed back to Friday.
Take a look.
]]>Sony's made a statement on the Metal Gear Online beta horror on its US blog, and from the sound of it the revised dates Konami published last night are now global.
]]>Konami's just updated the official MGO site to say the game's beta will now run from April 25 to May 11, delayed from April 21 to May 5.
]]>Just got this from Konami:
]]>In a statement on the Metal Gear Online beta's official site, Konami's delayed the test due to monster levels of demand.
]]>According to this PS3F report, Konami's issued a statement on the subject of the short MGO codes for the US beta, saying all you have to do to get one that works is to drop Konami customer support a line.
]]>Absolutely no surprises here. The ESRB has rated MGS4 as "Mature", meaning Americans will have to be 17 or over to buy it. Thanks, Kotaku.
]]>The UK Playstation Store has just updated to include the highly anticipated and much discussed Metal Gear Online beta.
]]>According to this IGN report, some American gamers are complaining that their Konami IDs are only nine characters long, as opposed to the 12 needed to unlock the Metal Gear Online beta.
]]>Konami has started sending out emails to westerners who obtained Japanese Kohami IDs with a view to getting on the Japanese Metal Gear Online beta cancelling their successful subscription.
]]>According to this forum thread on the US PlayStation boards, the Metal Gear Online beta client has been released and is now available for download.
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