Exploring Stuff That Makes Life Great
Today at Konami’s 20th Anniversary Metal Gear Event, Konami unveiled Metal Gear Online. This PS3 exclusive features 16 player combat that Konami calls “strategic multiplayer experience.” It will feature playable characters and environments from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
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At E3 07 Microsoft revealed the following charts:
They are both informative and pretty.
This Monday, Games Critics awarded Xbox 360 38 nominations for the 2007 Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 – 17 more than last year – compared to 29 for Playstation 3 and 14 for Wii. This makes Xbox 360 the most nominated platform with 38 nominations overall. Microsoft Game Studios also tallied an impressive number of nominations with eight in total.
Microsoft Game Studios’ nominated games include “Mass Effect” (MGS) for Best in Show, Best Console, and Best RPG title. “Fable 2” (MGS) was also nominated for Best RPG. “Halo 3” (MGS) garnered nods for Best Action game and Best Online Multiplayer, and “Halo Wars” (MGS) snagged a nomination for Best Strategy game. “Project Gotham Racing 4” (MGS) also received a nomination for Best Racing title.
The leg itself may not look like much, but the tattoo is one hell of a beauty. The tattoo is of a difficulty level in Halo, the Legendary difficulty level. Some might call it geeky and fanboyish, and may even compare it with the blasphemous Zune tattoo, but I say it’s a piece of art. It looks awesome and the logo was just made for tattooing. Quality art.
[Via Kotaku]
I will not hesitate to say now that I had underestimated Microsoft’s words when they claimed to take Halo 3’s marketing to the extreme. Bungie has revealed that the “live-action Halo 3 trailer” is actually the first of a series of Shorts that will be directed by Neill Blomkamp. Blomkamp is also the director for the slowly-progessing Halo movie, expected to be released in 2009.
The thing above, designed by the awesome folks at Weta Workshop is a fully-functional, true-to-scale model of the Warthog. When I mean fully-functional, I mean working like the real deal you play in the games. It’s a mean-driving 4×4, it can should be used off-road and it actually has a machine gun at the back. To quote Bungie representative ‘Frankie’, “Goddamn. It’s a Warthog.”
The Weta Workshop is famous for developing physical and special effects for several high-level movies, including the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong, the Chronicles of Narnia and of course, the upcoming Halo movie. And you thought Peter Jackson was the only connection between LotR and Halo.
The Weta Workshop is based in New Zealand, meaning that you will most likely not be able to touch this sweet baby. Of course, some of the lucky ones actually get to drive this thing. Without a freaking Xbox. Click on the thumbnail below for a very high-res photo.
[Via Bungie Weekly Update]
Whether or not you like Nintendo, you can’t disprove these 10 facts for the first half of 2007 based upon NPD and NPD Canada figures:
–Through the first half of 2007, the total Wii hardware sell-through in the United States and Canada combined is more than 2.3 million units (2.1 million United States, 222,000 Canada).
–For the first half of 2007, Nintendo represents nearly 70 percent of the industry growth in the United States and Canada combined.
–In June alone, Wii was once again the top-selling home console with nearly 435,000 units sold in the United States and Canada combined (381,800
United States, 53,000 Canada).
–In June alone, Nintendo DS was the top-selling video game system overall with nearly 608,000 units sold in the United States and Canada combined (562,000 United States, 46,000 Canada).
–Nintendo remained the top video game publisher in the United States and Canada in June, as well as the top publisher for all of 2007.
–In June alone, Nintendo has six of the top 10 best-selling games in the United States, including the top four: Mario Party 8 and Wii Play for
Wii, and Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl for Nintendo DS.
–Of the top 30 best-selling games in the United States for all of 2007, half are for Nintendo systems.
–The three best-selling games in the United States for all of 2007 are for Nintendo systems: Pokémon Diamond, Wii Play and Pokémon Pearl.
–Wii already boasts more than 180 games, including 120 downloadable Virtual Console titles. By the end of the year, that total number will climb to about 330 games, including an additional 100 new games from every major third-party publisher, along with an additional 50 Virtual Console titles.
–Approximately 300 games are already available for Nintendo DS, with another 140 titles expected by the end of the year from every major third-party publisher.
‘Nuff Said.