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  • State of Play: Metal Gear Solid V, Forza Motorsport 6, FIFA 16 & PES 2016

    James has some thoughts on sneaking, speeding and shooting.

  • Why does the video games industry hate its consumers?

    Sean Halliday ponders over why the video game industry treats its consumers so badly.

  • Castlevania Lords of Shadow Collection Dated

    Castlevania, as is common with such long running series, has a somewhat tenacious following. This was evident with the slight outcry about the direction the original Lords of Shadow – a seeming reboot if not retcon of the whole universe. Shame really, as they wrote off what turned out to be a really quite good…

  • Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes Goes English

    It’s been a while since we first saw this trailer for Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes, the prequel to Metal Gear Solid V proper, but now we get to hear the English cast in their roles. While the original Japanese trailer had the standard voice actor playing the part of Big Boss, the English version…

  • Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection Coming to Europe

    Konami have today announced that Europe will be receiving the Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection this September. While no price or precise launch date has been announced yet, with September being only a couple of months away they should follow soon. This set is being hailed as the definitive Metal Gear collection, a claim which…

  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Due This Winter

    (Warning: This news post and trailer contain major spoilers for the ending of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) The new game in the re-boot of Konami’s legendary Castlevania franchise follows-up from where the ending of the first Lords of Shadow left off. Departing his dreary castle after a rather extended stay in-hiding, Gabirel Belmont – now…

  • Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection gets a release date

    The Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection is set to hit the US on the 9th of July at the generous price of $49.99 (around £32). The PS3 exclusive collection will include: Metal Gear Solid + VR missions Metal Gear Solid 2 (HD edition) Metal Gear Solid 3 (HD edition, comes with the original Metal Gear…

  • Metal Gear Rising: Jetstream Sam DLC’s new screenshots

    After last week’s ‘VR Missions’ DLC, that was released exclusively to PlayStation 3 users, Metal Gear Rising is gearing up to release it’s next piece of DLC – Jetstream Sam. The Jetstream Sam DLC will allow players to take control of Sam, Raiden’s rival from Metal Gear Rising, in some DLC exclusive solo missions. There…

  • Bit Socket – Metal Gear Rising Review

    We’re big Metal Gear fans here at Bit Socket, so we’ve been looking forward to Metal Gear Rising for a long time. Now it’s finally here, and Joe has ninja jumped at the chance to review it. This is Raiden’s chance to shine, in a ninja action adventure where he does what ninjas do best:…

  • AOU 2012

    AOU is the yearly bash held just outside of Tokyo for arcade operators and arcade enthusiasts alike. The show fails to get much, if any, coverage in the West outside of details on new upgrades to already existing fighting games. In the UK we usually think of arcade machines as being cabinets housing videogames. However,…