Kojima Productions - Latest on MGS4 and More

You may well remember the news on Metal Gear Solid 4 from E3 back in May. You may also remember seeing the MGS4 trailer which you might want to have another look at. Or, should you have not seen it, you will want to have an immediate look, so right click on the above link and download it without delay, before doing anything else. Now!

Konami has just updated us with the latest from Kojima Productions, who will be showing off five new next-gen and handheld games at the Leipzig Games Convention next month.

Firstly there will be four ‘new’ entries to Metal Gear Solid series (in actuality, three new entries along with the European version of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence). Konami is promising a ‘spectacular new video trailer’ for one of the most anticipated next-gen titles, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots on PlayStation 3. SPOnG will be sure to bring this directly to your eyes via the magic of the Internet as soon as we manage to get a hold of it.

Next up, Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel for PSP gives fans of the series a preview of what Konami refers to as 'an exciting new genre', while Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops will also be on show, the first action-orientated MGS title for PSP.

Last, but not in any way least, is Kojima-San’s hugely ambitious DS action RPG Lunar Knights - one of our most-anticipated (non-Nintendo) DS titles of 2006, largely because it’s the first DS game to emerge from Kojima Productions. Plus, we know from chatting with one of the game's producers at E3 that Lunar Knights is being developed with all the (personal) care and attention that Kojima gives his flagship MGS series – which just means it is going to be something far beyond what we might have come to expect from a Japanese-developed DS action RPG.

Lunar Knights features a digital climate, with the DS’s top screen simulating real weather. It also features vampires, massive weapons and intergalactic space fights. We'll be bringing you more news on Lunar Knights along with some screens and art from the game as soon as we get a hold of it from the guys at Konami.

Right now, we're just going to go and watch that MGS4 trailer again and go into a little next-gen fantasy daydream, where we sneak up on some unsuspecting guards and snap their necks clean off in full-on high definition glory.