It’s rubbish day today.. which means Zero Punctuation day… This week Yahtzee has decided to dip his toe into the world of JRPG’s and, like me, he isn’t a fan of them. I don’t really think it would be fair to judge this game on this review, but it’s Yahtzee so we have to listen… It’s good this week but …

The first screenshots of Bioshock on the PS3 have emerged. Now, I’m not going to lie, the screens pretty much look no different to any others I have ever seen on the 360. Granted, with the extra time that has been spent on the version for PS3 now, I am sure that the developers are going to be able to …

Stephen Totilo posted a short piece today about communications between game companies and game reviewers on his MTV blog today. Now what this is, is an example of the kind of crap that goes on in the industry every single day. What happened is that Totilo was interview Alex Navarro, formerly of Gamespot. When the topic was being spoken of, Alex produced a piece of paper, which was a note from an unnamed PR person who was involved in a particular Wii launch game. When Navarro asked when he could release the game review, he was told the following: "If the review is 9.0 or higher you can post immediately. Lower than 9.0, could you please hold until launch day, November 19th? Thanks." Scenarios like this basically destroy the entire concept of game reviews. What is the use of a review if it's sole purpose is to let most people know that have already bought a game, that it is a pile of guano. We can only hope that something will be done in future to protect reviewers from having to deal with issues like this.

A local blogger, who is known by some as The Puppy Stuffer, sniffed out the story a few days ago that Wii prices were going to be going up in South Africa. Today, people on the tidemedia forums are confirming that they have indeed seen that Nintendo Wii’s are now selling in stores for as much as R3,699.00! The price …

For all of you that weren't able to download the GRID demo, Gametrailers.com is hosting a week dedicated to showing off more about GRID. This is a video of the Dodge Viper charging around on one of the games beautiful tracks. Although there have been a few people who have not taken a liking to the games driving mechanics, the first reviews are looking good and the game seems set to sell like crazy with the demo boasting more than a million downloads.

Phil Harrison has been chatting about the upcoming Alone in the Dark game for the PS3 later this year (and all other platforms soon), now believe it or not but at the time of writing I haven't even heard what he is saying since I don't have sound... yeah logistical problems. But I am so excited about Alone in the Dark that I just cannot resist posting it... On that note keep an eye out for our upcoming Alone in the Dark competition extravaganza (I like that word) where you can win a copy of Alone in the Dark every week in the run up to it's June 20th release.....

Some things are just to good to stay away and I am glad to see that Red vs Blue has decided to return. Red vs Blue is set in the Halo universe but don’t let that fool you, it really has very little to do with Halo.. I have always loved the humour in RvB and it has become so …

So, we’ve finally arrived at the main event of our Metal Gear retrospective: the plot summary. As you could imagine, it gets pretty overwhelming when trying to summarize the most important plot points of a series more than two decades in the making. As such, I’ll try and hit on the critical elements in chronological order (as opposed to the …