Headline RePLAY – 12.12.11

Today on Headline RePLAY: not all is as it seems with Metal Gear Rising, Valve teases its fans with more maddening hints and Modern Warfare 3 proves its worth.


Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’s reveal at the VGAs generated more questions, rumors and misconceptions than hype and Kojima Productions has been clearing house with new information on the title.

Most revealing was that Metal Gear Rising was silently canned because the development team felt that the original Rising as a game, where just anything can be sliced and diced, would be insufficient. It reached a point where the staff had no idea what the game should be and Kojima said the project would probably not be completed. The staff disagreed but Rising was ultimately cancelled.

Enter members of Platinum Games, which happened to arrive at Kojima Productions studio one day. Platinum Games learned about Rising’s fate, found it unfortunate that it was half-done, and took over the project.

Hence, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was born.

*Source: Andriasang


The internet conspirators are at it again— this time to prove the existence of the ever-elusive and never announced Half-Life 3 within Valve’s Portal 2 VGA video starring antagonist Wheatley.

After prying arcane clues from the video, 4Chan wrote a letter to Valve co-founder Gabe Newell who promptly responded, “I don’t suppose it would ease your wrath if I told you we’re announcing all of your favorite things at E3 2012?” and added later that it would have “something with a ‘three’ in it.”

And dialing up the speculation is Valve’s “Doug Rattman” Twitter account coming back to life, Tweeting, “It begins.” What follows is the Twitter feed spitting out odd strings of code, ending with a series of Tweets denying its importance and claiming that the system “just freaks out when it calls up a foreign source of information.”

May the endless speculation commence!

*Source: Kotaku & Destructoid 


Activision-Blizzard announced today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 topped $1 billion in worldwide sales 16 days after its release and trumped James Cameron’s Avatar, which in comparison took 17 days to reach the magical one billion dollar figure.  

Call of Duty games are profitable, who knew?

*Source: Yahoo! Games

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