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Kojima states that, for the good of the game, MGS 4 will be delayed

In a brief announcement, Konami has confirmed that the release of key PlayStation 3 exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has been delayed until early 2008. It appears that concerns about the quality of the game were raised, so the 200 developers working on Metal Gear Solid 4 will spend this additional time polishing the game to a neat finish, as all Kojima games are.

Touching another subject here, MGS 4 and Final Fantasy XIII are PS3 exclusives that Sony puts a lot of faith in showing to the world the real capabilities of the Play Station 3, and a little delay is surely going to hurt Sony too. The good news (if any) is that Kojima wants to try a worldwide release for this title, which means everybody will get it at the same time: Japan, Europe and America.

The latest iteration of most famous Italian except maybe The Godfather is finally here!

And it was about time, following Shigeru Miyamoto’s promise at Game Developers Conference 2007 that we would be able to play it this year. This is a game we all have been expecting, drooling over trailers and demo gameplay videos over the web; it’s reception was so successfull that one editor from 1Up.com said “this is the best example of how to use a Wii”, while another editor, this time from IGN stated that “the game was perfect”. But that remains to be seen.

By the end of the week, Super Mario Galaxy should be available in Japan, with rest-of-the-world releases scheduled for 12 November and 16 November, in America and Europe respectively.

On a personal note, coming from Miyamoto, this should prove a good game design leson, if not a great game.

If you ever wanted to be a Rock Star and play the drums or guitar (bass included!), look no further.

On 20 November “Rock Band” will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 (later in the year there will also be a PS2 version), and we finally have an official playlist for the game.

1960s
Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”

1970s
Aerosmith “Train Kept a Rollin’”*
The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
Boston “Foreplay/Long Time”
Mountain “Mississippi Queen”*
The Police “Next to You”
David Bowie “Suffragette City”
Black Sabbath “Paranoid”*
Blue Oyster Cult “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop”
Deep Purple “Highway Star”
KISS “Detroit Rock City”
Molly Hatchet “Flirtin’ With Disaster”
The Outlaws “Green Grass & High Tides”*
Sweet “Ballroom Blitz”*

1980s
Rush “Tom Sawyer”*
Bon Jovi “Wanted Dead or Alive”
The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
Faith No More “Epic”
R.E.M. “Orange Crush”
Iron Maiden “Run to the Hills”*
Pixies “Wave of Mutilation”

1990s
Foo Fighters “Learn to Fly”
Metallica “Enter Sandman”
Nirvana “In Bloom”
Stone Temple Pilots “Vasoline”
Weezer “Say It Ain’t So”
Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock”
Radiohead “Creep”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Hole “Celebrity Skin”
Garbage “I Think I’m Paranoid”
Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun”

2000s
The Hives “Main Offender”
Queens of the Stone Age “Go With the Flow”
The Strokes “Reptilia”
Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
OK Go “Here It Goes Again”
Nine Inch Nails “The Hand That Feeds”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California”
Coheed & Cambria “Welcome Home”
Fallout Boy “Dead on Arrival”
The Killers “When You Were Young”
New Pornographers “Electric Version”

(Unless marked with an asterix, the songs will use the original master recording performed by the original artists)

There’s more, if 45 songs weren’t enough for you; there will be 13 songs available as unlockable content, although no details on these songs exist.

2K Games’ recent blockbuster at the top of the charts after just a month of its release.

Things are looking good for 2K Games(ex Irrational Games, creators of the critically acclaimed System Shock series) with their latest game release. Bioshock promised a lot through timed screens, tech trailers and the highly-acclaimed demo, and boy! did it deliver!

The facts (so far):

• nr.1 (360 version) and nr.4 (PC version) in Australia sales charts.
• nr.1 overall in British sales charts.
• an overall rating of 96/100 (!) at Metacritic (for those that don’t know it, Metacritic automatically calculates an average of the most important reviews on the web), based on 25 reviews.
• an impressive #1 in both “Top Rated” and “Best Sellers” categories on Steam (Valve’s electronic game distribution system, www.steampowered.com).

It is interesting to note that almost 88 percent of the entire sales have been achieved by the Xbox 360 version; this could mean, at least on a short term, a substantial increase in 360 sales. On a side note, this also reflects the rather poor state of the PC games market in view of the booming console market.

Personally, I think that Epic Games’ Unreal Tournament, Bungie’s Halo 3 or Blizzard’s Starcraft 2 (not likely to come out this year, but I believe in miracles), are the only games due this year that stand a chance of dethroning Bioshock in both sales and positive reviews, but in view or recent developments, they have a tough fight ahead of them.

Cannibalism, ferocious dogs, dead bodies strewn about, sound familiar? If sitting in a room with the lights turned off and the volume turned up is your idea of a fun time, then you might be one of the millions of fans of the decade-old Resident Evil series. With over 10 games, 2 movies, and dozens of other paraphernalia, Resident Evil will spawn a new generation of zombies on the soon-to-be released Nintendo Wii.

In an official statement, Capcom noted that, “The new Resident Evil game for the console [Nintendo Wii] will combine the series’ intense gaming experience and atmosphere with the revolutionary control system of the Wii.” This means that the new Resident Evil game will give the player the chance to destroy the zombies in whatever way they see fit. So far no further details have been released about the game, but just the thought of being able to move the Wii controller in the fashion of a chainsaw should keep fans of the series happy for now.