I was prepared to sell my 60GB PS3 to get this bundle. But it’s a 40GB PS3 … booo Konami. We want a 80GB PS3, oh, well. At least I have the MGS4 LE Game bundle pre-ordered.

If you want the bundle you can pre-order on Monday May 19th at Konami.com. Details below:

It comes with the Gun Metal Gray PLAYSTATION 3 system with a 40GB hard drive, the bundle also includes a matching DUALSHOCK 3 wireless controller.

The MGS4 LE game box contains: The Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots game, which includes Metal Gear Online, enabling you to take part in the ultimate multiplayer squad based tactical shooter. An exclusive Blu-ray disc including over 2 hours of additional content - “Hideo Kojima’s Gene”, a behind-the-scenes vision of Hideo Kojima’s production team & game and “The Making of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots” documentary. As well as, the official Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots CD Soundtrack, including 16 never-before-released tracks by Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Armageddon, The Rock), Nobuko Toda, and Ennio Morricone.

MGS4 Limited Edition PS3 Hardware Bundle Details!

If you pre-order the PS3 version you get a very cool bonus. Dead Zone on blu-ray! Pretty slick bonus if you ask me. It is limited, so get your pre-order at Gamestop asap.

Also the Demo is up on the PlayStation Store, it has two characters you can play. Give it a shot. The Kamehameha attack looks great in HD. The game is out June 10th.

More viral videos:
KAMEHAMEHA! Girl
KAMEHAMEHA! Nuts

Check out NeoGAF and start at post 58.

I try not to think to much about Home. I don’t want to make the wait any more painful than it already is. But now Sony will be focusing on the “gaming” aspect of Home and not the advertising part of it. That should have been like that from the start …. oh well.

I was looking forward to seeing all the game spaces. Now that wait has become much longer. More people will be let into the closed beta in July, with a open beta in November. So good luck to everyone.

Home slated for November release as open beta

Somebody noticed something very interesting in a recent PSN video. Video downloads shown on the PlayStation Store. We knew this was coming, but maybe this is coming sooner than we think? It has options for NBC, HBO, the CW, Cartoon Network, MTV, and more. Some other things in the video are: “Click Start to Search”, “Click Square to Add to Cart”, “View Downloads”, and a Beta section.

But then again they showed the Home icon in PlayStation videos before and now that’s pushed back until November. So take this with a huge grain of salt.

Video Downloads Finally Coming to PLAYSTATION 3?

What I really want to see is a Bleach game for PS3

* Shinobi: Special Edition (FUNimation Entertainment)
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (20th Century Fox)
* Untraceable (Sony Pictures)
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (20th Century Fox)
* Mrs. Doubtfire (20th Century Fox)
* Youth Without Youth (Sony Pictures)
* Blue Man Group: How to Be a Megastar Live! (Rhino Music)
* Epic Conditions: The Weather Channel (Warren Miller Entertainment)
* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Disney)

Blu-ray.com

BLOCKBUSTER also plans on increasing the variety of game titles available to rent, and will be introducing Nintendo DS game rentals at BLOCKBUSTER locations nation-wide. You will also be able to purchase Nintendo DS games, hardware and accessories later this year.

The best news (if you don’t have a PS3 yet) is that BLOCKBUSTER will be offering a PS3 game and movie bundle for $499.99, at select locations. This exclusive offer includes:

* A 40 GB Sony PS3 Game Console
* PS3/Blu-Ray Remote
* HDMI Cable
* “Spiderman 3″ on Blu-Ray disc
* “Transformers” PS3 Game
* BLOCKBUSTER 12-week PS3/Blu-Ray rental card (one free rental a week for 12 consecutive weeks)

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First off this game is not for everyone. You either love it or hate it. Me personally I love it. Big improvement over MGS3 Online. Don’t think this will be your standard FPS, it is not! That’s what makes MGO unique and fun. There is a big learning curve if you’ve never played a metal gear game. But there is a training mode to practice your shooting, CQC(close quarter combat), movement, adjusting the settings to your liking, etc. Which you should do before you jump into a live game, because you’ll get slaughtered quickly if you don’t know what your doing.

It still took me some time before I really got used to the controls, and adjusting the settings to my liking. It’s a blast to roll over people in the barrel. But if you roll for to long you will throw up. It works great to hide barrels and boxes. Most of the time people just walk by, but you’ll get people that shoot boxes and barrels just to be sure. The catapult (I call it the man cannon), is so great. You hop on and you can move it to two angles, then just press triangle and off you go flying into the air. I like to rotate the camera in mid air to get a good look at the whole level almost and see if I can spot any enemies while flying. Then you nail the landing on both feet and continue on. You always know when somebody is flying because of the scream they make, lol.

Then there is the magazines with bikini clad ladies. Works the same as usual, but this time you can actually turn the pages and choose which sexy lady you want to “distract” you enemies. I think there is a about 4 pages. The CQC is fun, I finally leveled up my knife skill to lv3 so I can slit throats. So fun to hide around corner and grab a enemy passing by and knock him out or kill him. If you have CQC level 3 you can actually disarm your opponent of his weapons, inject a virus, knock him out, etc. I don’t have this yet, but I’m working on it.

The skill system has 4 slots and 16 skills total. For example you can select a gun type mastery which reduces the recoil and faster reloading or Fast Movement which would be useful for CQC or just getting away from enemy fire. But if you level up a skill to level 2 it will take 2 slots, and level 3 (max) takes 3 slots. Which I wish wasn’t the case. Because if you want to slit throats with a knife. You have to have lv3 knife and lv1 cqc, and that takes up all yours slots. Wouldn’t be so bad if you could swap out your skills after you die. But you can’t until the whole round is over.

The SOP system is great addition. Just press triangle near your team mates and you are all linked to the SOP system. Once you die your not connected and you’ll need to connect again. This outlines them with your teams color (red or blue), and it’s still visible threw walls even. You can tell if your teammates are distracted by a magazine, stunned, being killing etc. There is even a skill that allows you to hack into your opponents SOP system and if the guy you hacked into is connected to his team mates you basically know the locations of everybody on there team!

On Monday Konami released another game mode, Sneaking Mission (my favorite), and a map called Midtown Maelstrom. Somebody at random is picked to be Snake, and if there is at least 11 players somebody gets to play as the Metal Gear Mk. II robot. To win Snake must collect 3 dog tags from enemies without dying, which can be very hard sometimes. While this is going on there are two teaming battling it out. For a team to win they have to kill snake up to 5 times (depending on your server settings). If Snake doesn’t collect his 3 dog tags or he doesn’t die five times from a team. Then the team with the most kills win. It’s a blast.

Snake has Octocamo, which takes the color and texture of whatever he’s against if he doesn’t move for a couple seconds. Sometimes he is extremely hard to see, think of it like trying to find predator cloaked during a fire fight. But for the Octocamo to be truly effective you have to keep changing the suit to match your environment. Snake also has another great tool in his arsenal, the Solid Eye vision system. Which allows him to switch between Night Vision and binoculars. Another cool thing is you can even do a hold up with Snake. Just point your gun at a guys back and he’ll say Freeze!

Playing as the Mk. II robot is a blast too. It’s basically invisible in the shadows, in the sunlight it casts a small shadow. The Mk. II only has one weapon & purpose really, to assist Snake in winning. He can deliver shocks to people to knock them out so snake can collect the dog tags.

Had a epic MGO moment over the weekend! A guy had my team member in a standing choke hold just outside the warehouse doors. I was hidden inside the warehouse with my sniper rifle. I zoomed in on the opponent doing the CQC choke hold and boom head shot. Team member saved. Then he saluted me!

This game is so fun, I haven’t even been tempted to try out the new CoD4 maps I bought, or anything else really. A easter egg I found, is when your booting up the game and your on the screen with your character. If you rotate the camera for a while, your character with get dizzy and fall down. If you just sit there he hides in a box. Oh Konami what else have you hidden! lol This is exactly why I love the MGS series! I could go on and on about MGO, but I’ll shut up now.

This is my first time playing a Buzz game and I thought I’d be using the red buzz button more while playing. But most of the time it’s just used as a select button. Which is a little disappointing. It does light up when it’s your turn or when the question is up for grabs which is nice. There are 2 game modes that actually use the buzz button. Pie Fight & Point Stealer. Both are fun modes, but point stealer is by far my favorite. But don’t get me wrong it’s still very fun to play.

You have several modes to choose from:

Single Player - Which is good for practice, but this is a party game and should be played with a group.

2-4 or 5-8 Player - This is where you’ll spend most of your time

Team Play - If you want to do teams I’d recommend to just do the 2-4 player mode. The team play game mode is very slow paced, and no variety either as far as game modes.

Quizmaster - You play as the game show host pretty much. So you make up questions, and the players buzz in. You choose if it’s correct or not. This can be a fun game mode if you have some creative answers thought out in advance, or it could get really crazy on the spot depending on who your playing with.

Custom game - Which is great because you can skip game modes you don’ t like and just do the ones you like.

After you pick your game mode, you can pick your character, and your own buzzer sound. There are a lot of buzzers to pick from too. My favorite character is the one in the swamp monster suit. There are plenty of categories to choose, from Period Dramas to Dumb and Dumber. There is plenty of variety in the game types in 2-4 and 5-8 player mode to keep you entertained. Even if your winning by a long shot, in the last round the last place winner could easily be the first. Also it’s always fun to see the movie related prize when the game is over. There is a Film Fanatic difficulty mode too, you’ll be surprised how much you know sometimes.

Overall it’s a very fun quiz game that will be fun to pull out during parties and get together. I’d rate this a 8 out of 10. I would rate it higher if the movie clips had sound and where longer. Now I want to pick up the Mega Quiz to add to my collection after playing this game.

Just a FYI on the character creation, you can NOT change your face and voice after you register, so choose wisely.

Download it here