MGS gamers have been through the saga of Solid Snake and said their farewells at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4, but now it’s time for a new hero to step up to the plate. Raiden, the Ninja from MGS4 (and sissy from MGS2); stars in the new Metal Gear game, Metal Gear Solid: Rising. But for those who thought it would be exclusive to XBOX 360, a surprise development has occurred. Read more… »

If you have yet to check out any details for Platinum Games’ upcoming action game Bayonetta, you could do worse than read what our very own Chris Carter had to say about his experience watching producer Yusuke Hashimoto play through some of it. Hashimoto also answered a couple of our questions, and was very clear about a certain comparison along the way.

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Some of our writers here at Gamer Limit have been lucky enough to attend E3 this year. Some of us haven’t. Which one do you think I am? I’m not bitter. OK, maybe slightly when considering a couple of our boys sat down with Chet Faliszek, a writer for Left 4 Dead 2. Fliszek teased us with tidbits of information regarding this surprise sequel.

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Every year around this time we begin to speculate on who we thought “won” E3 2009. It’s not Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft this year. It all comes down to one man, who showed off the most new surprised in comparison to anyone else. At the Konami press conference Kojima-san revealed yet another major title: Castlevania: Lord of Shadows.

The latest trailer does have a bit of low resolution, but it is absolutely georgous none the less. You’re back controlling the whip of a man torn due to the loss of his wife. With great voice acting by well-known talent, Lord of Shadows cannot come fast enough.

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If E3 thought it was going to happen without a hitch this year, it’d better think again. The very idea of the impending release of EA’s Dante’s Inferno has driven a group of people to attend E3 in their own unique way.

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Hideo Kojima has been a busy bee at this year’s E3, hasn’t he? First of all, he shocked the world with the announcement that Metal Gear Solid: Rising will be available on the Xbox 360, then he unveiled Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on the PSP.

BUT! He wasn’t quite done there. At yesterday’s Konami press conference, Mr. Kojima confirmed that Rising was a multi-platform release and that a new game was in the works: Metal Gear Arcade.

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If you’re a fan of one-on-one fighting and the idea of taking on countless foes at once… rejoice! Namco-Bandai have revealed at E3 that Tekken 6 is going to have a single-player mode, known as “The Scenario Campaign”. Hit the jump for further details and a press release.

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Sony shocked the world yesterday when they announced Final Fantasy XIV will be coming exclusively on PlayStation 3, but that may no longer be the case. Square-Enix hosted a press conference this morning to clarify the game’s exclusivity.

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Yesterday at Sony’s E3 conference, a brand new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII was shown. It gives us an insight on the plot and shows off some gameplay. Also, it looks like a new party member is revealed. The trailer confirms a 2010 North American release.

Hit the jump to watch the Final Fantasy XIII E3 2009 trailer.

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So, after the excellent showing from Microsoft on Monday, it was always going to be interesting to see just how Nintendo and, in particular, Sony would react. Would there be a reaction at all? And what would the reaction be against? These are all questions that may or may have not been answered fully yesterday. Hit the jump to find out.

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Final Fantasy XIV was announced yesterday afternoon at Sony’s E3 press conference following a new Final Fantasy XIII trailer. The audience was shocked to hear that Final Fantasy XIV Online would be released in 2010 as a PS3 exclusive along with the eagerly anticipated Final Fantasy XIII.

Conference-goers and those of us stuck at home watching the live stream were treated to a beautiful, painfully short teaser. Later yesterday evening (June 2nd) Square-Enix launched the official Final Fantasy XIV web site, yielding a few extra, but not overly generous, morsels of information.

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Arguably the biggest surprise to arise from Sony’s E3 conference was the announcement of a new motion sensing controller, which almost felt like a direct retaliation to Microsoft’s Project Natal which was revealed just the day before Sony’s showing.

An extended video demonstration of this tasty technology can be found after the break.

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