Looks like Christina Aguilera was right, you are beautiful no matter what they say! One of the emerging story themes brought up during the Games Convention conference of Kojima-san’s highly anticipated magnum opus was about how four fine-looking women transformed into technological “beasts” of combat. Now say hello to these four buxom metallic babes of destruction: Laughing Octopus, Raging Raven, Howling Wolf and Screaming Mantis. Interesting choice of names, an obvious nod to the first Metal Gear Solid no less. What’s even more interesting is that these characters will be modeled and motion-captured after real-life actresses, a first for the series!

Kojima’s newest tragic characters are expected to be sympathetic, as the Metal Gear director explained that “War created these ugly beasts, but beneath they are beautiful women.” He asked the audience rhetorically “Can these beautiful ladies return to human form?” We’ll surely find out when we play the game next year.

You tease, Kojima-san. You fucking tease.

Source: Kotaku

Poor Sony! First it sells a miserable number of consoles compared to its competitors, and then it starts losing out on all third party exclusives, and then ends up losing its much beloved Ken Kutaragi, who openly apologizes on TV for all the mistakes others ended up doing.

With a lot of games like Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto and Devil May Cry ending up in Microsoft’s court, and once PlayStation chums Capcom sticking to their guns with not releasing Dead Rising and Lost Planet for the PS3, Sony desperately needs more third party developers to stick to them now more than ever. And just when people started speculating that Metal Gear Solid 4 was also slowly making its way to the Xbox 360, Konami’s Ryan Payton went on a Kojima Productions Report podcast to say:

I can tell you honestly at this point, we have not changed the game in any form with the idea of ‘oh, we got to do this on 360.’ Put aside whether or not we’re developing for 360 or not, the game is built on the PS3 hardware, as you guys have known for the past two years or so.

While he didn’t make it exactly clear whether Metal Gear Solid 4 would be a PS3 exclusive, he did imply that even if it did end up on the Xbox 360, it would be a port and a scaled-down version of the PS3 version, considering how creator Hideo Kojima himself had said that

MGS4 is aimed for the movie theatre, it’s aimed for the PS3, so the game’s scenario and graphics need this theatre-type hardware. It’s when a producer has a game that can work on the “DVD level” that a game can go multiplatform.

Well, that hasn’t really stopped a lot of companies from making bad port jobs anyway, right? But considering how the game is made for the PS3, the BluRay disc and how the MGS movie is being made by Sony Pictures, one wonders how far Sony will go to make sure that they don’t lose Snake to the snakes at Redmond. We’ll just have to wait this one out.

via [Kotaku]