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pdkiller on 22 May 2009

lol? and back to 108 hours.. what the f***



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pdkiller on 22 May 2009

http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2008/09/19/konami-registers-new-metal-gear-solid-title/


Metal Gear Existance



pdkiller on 25 May 2009

it will be a game for xbox360

 

watch hideo kojima twitter blog

 

  1. The biggest surprised for xbox 360 owner isn't mgs4; Substance, it's something much bigger.5:16 AM May 20th from web


Musouka on 25 May 2009

Hideo Kojima twittering... in English. Of course!



No foreign sky protected me,
No stranger's wing shielded my face.
I stand as witness to the common lot,
survivor of that time, that place.

- From 'Requiem' by Anna Akhmatova

CAL4M1TY on 25 May 2009

Seriously, I think Sony, MS or Nintendo have to hire whoever is doing this Marketing stuff for Kojima.

This one countdown timer has started more internet buzz than anything (except perhaps FF13 at E3 last year) that those 3 companies and their PR teams have been able to come up with officially for the last year and a bit (so leaked GoW and Uncharted footage doesn't count).

I'm actually more intrigued by the idea that this could be ZoE3. It'd make sense in that whilst everyone is thinking MGS5 at E3, because Kojima would have tricked everyone (as he likes to) into thinking it was something else (MGS5), so that when it's revealed to be ZoE3, he makes everyone look like idiots.



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pdkiller on 27 May 2009
Musouka said:

A interesting comment from Kotaku:

Analyzing the frame.swf source code:

There will be 5 "keys" revealed in 5 dates:
5/18/2009: http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/img/key_eah.swf
5/22/2009: http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/img/key_ebb.swf (not yet uploaded to the website)
5/27/2009: http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/img/key_ebg.swf ((not yet uploaded to the website)
5/30/2009: http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/img/key_ebi.swf (ot yet uploaded to the website)
6/01/2009: http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/img/key_fa.swf (not yet uploaded to the website)

There is a loader swf for each key.

The programmer was smart enough to use a external source for the current time instead of using the viewer system time. (http://www.konami.jp/cgi-bin/server_time.cgi)

Maybe the loader for the next key will change the weather in the frame.swf

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Someone else managed to shave some hours off the timer.

http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/frame.swf?lmt01=20090518100000&lmt02=20090519100000&lmt03=99999999999999&lmt04=99999999999999&lmt05=99999999999999

However, if the aforementioned is correct, the timer is dependant on the server time and might not be affected by this 'trick'.


seems to be, that all key phrases "Key_...swf" had changed!



Musouka on 27 May 2009
pdkiller said:

seems to be, that all key phrases "Key_...swf" had changed!

Indeed, I tired to access those first thing today but they are not working anymore. I guess Kojima Pro has outsmarted the nerds once again.



No foreign sky protected me,
No stranger's wing shielded my face.
I stand as witness to the common lot,
survivor of that time, that place.

- From 'Requiem' by Anna Akhmatova