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Gamers, listen up! If you are a huge fan of the Metal Gear Solid series, then you would be pleased to hear that Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is set to arrive with content that will be exclusive to not only the PS3, but also on the next generation PS4 as well! Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes will be a prologue that has been set a cool 9 years before The Phantom Pain, at least according to a snap from Kojima that depicted a display which shed more light about Ground Zeroes in greater detail. The text read, “Prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Takes place in 1975 after Peace Walker and nine years before The Phantom Pain. Multiple missions with central story mode and side-ops missions. Exclusive content for PlayStation platform.”

Unfortunately, Konami has not quite yet stepped forward to reveal whether PlayStation exclusive content for Ground Zeroes is confirmed, and neither have they dropped any more hints as to what kind of content will it carry. We do know that Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes will launch on other gaming platforms as well, including the Xbox 360 and next generation Xbox One, but Sony console owners will have the edge in terms of value for money when spring 2014 arrives.

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Receive PS3 And PS4 Exclusive Content original content from Ubergizmo.

There’s a lot you can do with your food. Eating it is one of them. Playing around with textures and using it for art is another. We’ve seen a couple of awesome bento boxes featuring popular characters and pop culture themes, like Super Mario, Evil Dead and even Bioshock.

Another one to add to the list is this awesome-looking Metal Gear-inspired meal, served up inside Sony’s new PS3 bento box.

It was specially commissioned to commemorate the game’s twenty-fifth anniversary. It’s kind of hard to believe that the faces of the featured characters are actually made from mashed potatoes!

Tapioca was apparently used to achieve their unique eye colors, while green onions were used for the characters’ hair and beards. Now this is food art at its best.

[@Kojima_Hideo via Kotaku via Geeks Are Sexy]

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Limited Edition is now made available on Amazon for $149.99 a pop, where it will feature Raiden, a cyborg ninja who relies on his special High Frequency katana blade that will rival Wolverine’s adamantium claws, as Raiden cuts through just about anything that stands in his (vengeful) path. Boasting an all-new style of frenetic action gameplay, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance will deliver a fast and fluid game style that is centered on katana-based combat, all held within the premise of the Metal Gear universe.

It is said that the kind of in-game technology used will push the boundaries of graphics, style and lightning-speed action gameplay, where one is able to take advantage of just about anything that has been created, described as “an all-encompassing cutting plane in real time”. Basically, you can trash the entire place any way you like it. Sounds like something that rock stars would want to vent their frustrations on without having to trash the hotel rooms that they’re staying in. The $149.99 Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Limited Edition bundle will come with a full copy of the game, an official soundtrack, a Limited Edition 2-sided Steelbook, and an exclusive high-frequency katana blade plasma lamp.

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I can’t remember the last time I shared an article here on Technabob, but for Hideo Kojima, I’m willing to making an exception. This month marks the 25th year of the Metal Gear series of videogames, and the PlayStation blog was able to interview Kojima for a surprisingly honest retrospective.

While the one page article is barely enough to tell a story that spans 25 years, Kojima still managed to share a lot in the interview, like how he almost left Konami after a game that he had already spent 6 months on was cancelled. Fortunately his superiors gave him a chance to create a combat game for the MSX. The result? The first Metal Gear.

Kojima also mentions how in 1998, he heard about “a console on which polygons could be created in real time” – the PlayStation. He was pumped up at the thought of creating a Metal Gear game where the player could change the position of the camera because he considered his creation a “hide-and-seek” game. The result of that excitement is one of my favorite games: Metal Gear Solid.

Kojima also mentioned that he had “bitter memories” of the production of Metal Gear Solid, because he was “only” a designer and not a producer, and thus had no say about a lot of things like the budget and release date.

If you’re a fan of the Metal Gear series or Kojima, I highly recommend that you read the entire interview on the PlayStation blog. I will share one last tidbit for my fellow fans: Kojima said that on August 30, he will share what the Fox Engine – a cross-platform video game engine developed by Kojima’s studio – can do. Thank you very much Kojima-san for all the great games. You don’t have to make Metal Gear any more. But I guess it’s too late for that.

Metal Gear Solid art by Yoji Shinkawa, from the book The Art of Metal Gear Solid