Sit down with Metal Gear Solid 4's Hideo Kojima

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the epic action-stealth game from famed designer Hideo Kojima is out today, concluding his more than 20-year directorial involvement in the series. I got a chance to sit down with Kojima and ask him about his popular franchise and what's up next for him.

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Codemasters Raising Hell in Hunt for UK's Worst Boss

Win a PlayStation 3 and a copy of Overlord - Raising Hell by revealing your hilarious stories about terrible bosses

To celebrate the upcoming release of Overlord: Raising Hell on the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, Codemasters is calling on the hardworking employees of Britain to lift the lid on their terrible boss – with one lucky person walking away with a PlayStation 3 and a copy of the game.

Overlord - Raising Hell, sees players take control of the all-powerful Overlord, a mysterious figure who commands a group of slavish Gremlin-like creatures who do anything for their big bad boss. They’re happy to savage sheep, throw themselves into the claws on enemies and even sacrifice their lives in a bid to carry out the desires of the Overlord.

But now Codemasters wants to find out if UK employees have been forced - just like Minions - to do the bidding of their mean manager and is asking them to anonymously submit their own stories and bizarre boss experiences. Codemasters will print the weirdest and funniest on www.codemasters.co.uk/worstboss and the author of the best tale wins a PlayStation 3 and a copy of Overlord: Raising Hell.

Submitting your story couldn’t be easier, just email worst.boss@codemasters.com and then wait to see if your awful experience makes it onto the website. All anecdotes will remain anonymous, so participants can be as frank as they like about their laughable leader.

Overlord - Raising Hell is available in Europe on June 20th

Classic Video Game Scenes Recreated in LEGO

Katamari, Metal Gear, even Duck Hunt! Lego - don't you just love it.

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Oregon Trail Video game now available for Mobile Cellphones

Mobile games developer Gameloft has released its updated version of The Oregon Trail. The game costs $4 (or more, depending on your carrier) and introduces several new gameplay elements to the elementary school classic.

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City Interactive Launches Code of Honor - The French Foreign Legion

City Interactive Launches
Code of Honor - The French Foreign Legion

Title: Code of Honor: The French Foreign Legion
Publisher City Interactive
Format: PC CDROM
Genre: First Person Shooter
Brand: Premiere Silver
Price: £4.99
Age Rating: 16+
Available: 13 June 2008


Code of Honor: The French Foreign Legion, a first person shooter game for the PC launches from City Interactive’s Premiere Silver range of brand new games priced at just £4.99. For almost two hundred years, the French Foreign Legion has attracted adventurers from all over the world. Enter Senior Corporal Claude Boulet, a 26 year old Parisian, brought up in harmony with tough street rules. The Legion is where he found his place and where he will now lead players into the hellish African savanna, where a revolution inspired by the African Revolutionary Group is threatening to spiral out of control.


News is filtering through that the rebels have taken over a transport of radioactive waste on its way from nuclear power plants. They now have enough material to create several “dirty bombs”. The risk of nuclear attach has forced the international community to intervene immediately. France is first to react and initiates transfer of its elite 13th half-brigade to the Ivory Coast. Leading the several hundred men, Boulet could never predict, not even in his darkest dreams, the trouble he would find himself in. From now on he will always associate the Ivory Coast with the war path he had to tread in defence of freedom and democracy.

Players join the game as a new member to the Legion, taking on the role of a volunteer and vowing to uphold the Legionnaire’s Code of Honor - to serve France with honour and fidelity and to know that a mission, once given, becomes sacred and must be carried out to the end, and at any cost.




Game Features

• Join the famous French Foreign Legion on its latest real world operation; extinguishing a civil war raging in Ivory Coast.
• Together with your comrades, fight in real-world locations, using authentic Foreign Legion weapons and equipment.
• Modern French weaponry, not available in other games including FAMAS, LRAC 89, AAT mod.F1, FR F2.
• Contemporary vehicles and attach helicopters at the disposal of the Foreign Legion including VAB, VBL, AMX, Puma, Gazelle.
• Amply equipped enemies (AK74 plus GP30, RPG7, BRDM and BTR-70 vehicles, Ka-28 and Ka-50 choppers).
• Feel the heat of combat on battlefields, meticulously recreated from satellite photos.
• Painstakingly rendered uniforms, weapons, and equipment, convincing graphics, plus rich visual and sound effects make you feel you’re there.
• Photorealistic graphics and an outstanding musical setting supported by the Chrome engine.
• Eight playable levels providing hours of great player entertainment.

Supreme Boxing - Multiplayer Online Boxing Game Launched

Online game developers Gamejam have launched the multiplayer online boxing game Supreme Boxing (www.supremeboxing.com). The launch follows a successful beta testing phase which attracted over 8,000 players.

Supreme Boxing is a massive multiplayer online boxing simulation that allows users to create and build a stable of boxers that will compete with other boxers across different weights and regions in a bid climb the rankings and become champion of the world. Players can develop their boxer skills, buy enter tournaments, join boxing clubs and fight other boxers in either spar or professional bouts.

As the users character grows in rank and reputation, there is the option to buy houses, luxuries and special items, or channel resources into the player’s professional development. The user may choose to build his own skills in a role-playing style that will, in turn improve the in-game skills of the character.

According to Gamejam’s Director Dave Bird, the introduction of certain innovative features hand real control over to the player.

“Our intention with Supreme Boxing is to accurately represent the rivalry and competition of the boxing world as they battle for titles, reputation, fame and fortune,” said Bird.

£3000 to be won on the latest series of online Xbox 360 tournaments

MatchBox360 £3000 Online Summer Series

MatchBox360 turns up the heat this summer with a sizzling prize fund totalling over £3000 to be won on the latest series of online Xbox 360 tournaments.

The “MatchBox360 £3000 Online Summer Series” sponsored by NETGEAR and IIYAMA features the most popular Xbox 360 titles including Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Gears of War and FIFA08.

Following the success of the Winter Series in January with over 150 teams and 700 players battling it out over Xbox Live, this latest selection of tournaments will set a new standard for MatchBox360 online tournaments with the largest prize funds available to date.

With the forthcoming MatchBox360 XL eSports LAN tournament on 25-27th July at Cranmore Park, the “MatchBox360 £3000 Online Summer Series” not only provides the Xbox 360 gaming community the perfect opportunity to win some amazing prizes, but will also see some of the best teams in Europe practising their tactics as they prepare for the largest dedicated Xbox 360 tournament in Europe.

For all the latest MatchBox360 XL news and information please visit: http://www.matchbox360.co.uk

The “MatchBox360 £3000 Online Summer Series” prizes include:

IIYAMA Call of Duty 4 5v5 (in association with Console Lounge and Team V)

• Prizes: £250 cash
• 5 x iiyama ProLite E2003WSV...the official monitors of MatchBox360 XL!
• 15 x Xbox 360 Enemy Territories: Quake Wars (Activision)
• £250 cash
• Forum: http://community.matchbox360.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=126
• Registration: http://community.matchbox360.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6608

NETGEAR Halo 3 4v4:

• Prizes: £700 cash
• Forum: http://community.matchbox360.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=124
• Registration: http://community.matchbox360.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6577

Gears of War 4v4:

• Prizes: 8 x Xbox 360 Gears of War 2
• Forum: http://community.matchbox360.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=125
• Registration: http://community.matchbox360.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6488

The “MatchBox360 £3000 Online Summer Series” tournaments are now open for registration and will take place throughout June to August with the first tournament starting on Sunday 15th June...so what are you waiting for, get your teams registered now!!!

More of your favourite Xbox 360 titles including Guitar Hero III and Race Driver: GRID will be added to the online tournament line-up over the next few weeks. For more information on all the tournaments available, please visit the MatchBox360 online tournament forums:

http://community.matchbox360.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=27

We look forward to meeting you online and at MatchBox360 XL on 25-27th July!

Axe Shredders hit road with Nintendo DS Guitar Hero - On Tour bundle

First Portable Edition in the Guitar Hero Franchise Lets Players Unleash Their Inner Rock Star Anytime, Anywhere

Most musicians dream of one day reaching platinum success. A new Nintendo DS™ bundle lets aspiring axe shredders claim that coveted status right from day one. The new Silver/Black Nintendo DS branded with the Guitar Hero® logo will be available exclusively as part of a limited-time bundle with Guitar Hero®: On Tour. For the first time, this smash-hit franchise is playable on a portable video game system using the revolutionary Guitar Hero™ Guitar Grip™ peripheral and fully tapping into the distinctive abilities of the Nintendo DS hardware.

Available on June 22, 2008, at North American retailers nationwide, the bundle provides a cool combo package for grads about to head off to college as well as summertime, road-tripping rockers of all ages.

"This one-of-a-kind bundle makes Nintendo DS even more appealing to our ever-growing audience of players," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "Like Nintendo DS itself, the Guitar Hero franchise has attracted millions of new players to the world of video games."

"We are thrilled to be the first third-party publisher to partner with Nintendo on this unique offering," said Dusty Welch, Head of Publishing for RedOctane. "With the Guitar Hero-branded Nintendo DS and our Guitar Hero: On Tour game and peripheral, this amazing bundle delivers gamers a complete Guitar Hero experience they can enjoy anytime, anywhere."

Using the revolutionary Guitar Hero Guitar Grip peripheral and a custom-designed Guitar Hero pick-stylus, Guitar Hero: On Tour leverages the unique abilities of Nintendo DS to bring a new dimension to hand-held gaming. Featuring a wide variety of music, including tracks from blink-182, No Doubt, Jet, Nirvana, Bloc Party and many others, players can rock out in career mode, join together in co-op or go head-to-head in a "Guitar Duel" using Battle Items unique to the DS platform.

Troll Bashing, Unicorn Slaying Minions back on The Attack In Overlord Raising Hell

Sheep-worrying trailer of PLAYSTATION 3
system special edition unveiled here

A devilishly delicious trailer of the summer's must-play for megalomaniacs, Codemasters revealed an all-new trailer video for Overlord Raising Hell, the extra evil edition of Triumph Studios' twisted fantasy blockbuster, coming June 20th† exclusively for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system.



In the video, now available from www.codemasters.com/overlordraisinghell, unicorn slaying, troll baiting and sheep worrying is all on the agenda as the Overlord, ably assisted by his loyal band of demented minion warriors, lays waste to all he surveys. Perfect for anyone who ever wanted to grow up to be an evil, despotic tyrant, Overlord Raising Hell will take players on a seriously warped fantasy adventure that's packed with dark humour and loaded with smart satire on established RPG convention and cliché.


On a tongue-in-cheek journey of death and destruction where evil is enlightening and tyranny's a treat, Overlord Raising Hell has players venturing deeper into the world than ever before. In a series of hellish new levels, each a supernatural abyss, the undead denizens are on the attack. There's only one thing for it: assemble the minions, descend into these kingdoms and embark on a fresh wave of oppression to become the Overlord of the underworld.

With exclusive content and a host of gameplay improvements, Overlord Raising Hell is the Overlord's definitive outing and is set to launch for the PLAYSTATION 3 system on June 20th. Discover why being evil has never been so much fun with the new video and more available online at www.codemasters.com/overlordraisinghell and sign up as part of the Overlord's army on Facebook†† (or the sheep gets it).

Velvet Assassin - Xbox 360 and PC - Fact Sheet

Velvet Assassin

TITLE: Velvet Assassin
PLATFORM: Xbox 360 & PC
DEVELOPER: Replay Studios
GENRE: Stealth-Action
RELEASE DATE: Late 2008

Velvet Assassin is the sumptuous new stealth-action game set to deliver a breath of fresh air into the genre and up the stakes for World War II games. Inspired by the fascinating story and unbreakable spirit of British secret agent Violette Szabo, players take control of Violette Summer, a beautiful spy deep behind enemy lines with no support or official backing from the British Government. Intense stealth-action gameplay with a startling real-time lighting system and surreal visuals combine to produce an incredible gaming experience. Velvet Assassin is set to challenge gamers to win the war from the shadows come late 2008.



VIOLETTE SUMMER

Born in Devon, England, Violette Summer grew up in a happy family and had a great and active childhood. Initially, she started her working life in a beauty salon before the outbreak of war inspired her to move to London and join the weapon industry. It didn’t take too long for her to be noticed by the Secret Services; she was after all strikingly beautiful, athletic and had great attention to detail. It was only a formality that she was recruited into MI6 during Britain’s darkest hours.




As if inspiration was needed during those very bleak days, Violette had lost a close aunt during one of the first Luftwaffe bombing attacks and to further compound her terrible heartache she later lost her cherished RAF husband in battle. However, Violette was extremely strong willed and where many would have lost themselves to misery and mourning, she used these painful experiences to inspire her to succeed as a spy for the MI6.

Come late 2008 players will be able to help Violette Summer in her daring quests behind enemy lines.