“Metal Gear Solid” came out in 1998 and is the first game of the series, created by Japanese game developer Hideo Kojima. The game was developed to play the PlayStation and released later to the PC. The game was a huge success and contributed to the success of PlayStation.

Now the British gaming magazine PSM3 seems to have come across information about Hideo Kojima plans for Metal Gear Solid 5. Although the legendary Kojima said that MGS4, which came out three years ago along with the PS3 launch, was the last book in the series but the pressure from the fans for a follow-up is enormous.

According to PSM3, Kojima will show off two new features at E3, one of which is the fifth part of the MGS series. It remains to be seen whether this is true but what is clear is that a spin-off titled Metal Gear Solid: Rising is coming to both Xbox 360 and PS3 next year. Hideo Kojima is involved in this production which is an action game with Raiden as the main character.

The second innovation may be a version of MGS designed for Sony’s newly launched portable console NGP. Hideo Kojima demonstrated Metal Gear Solid 4 on the NGP when Sony announced the console earlier this year.

Eidos Montreal reloads with gorgeous design, an exciting story, vivid characters and a hell atmosphere. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is all about well dressed security manager Adam Jenson, whose workplace is invaded by mechanically enhanced elite soldiers. Adam is thrown through an armor-glass windows and beaten so thoroughly that he almost dies. Six months ago a newly built hiking Adam into his former workplace, repaired, patched and upgraded with a whole range of cool future gadgets such as robotic arms, robotic eyes an reinforced skeleton.

Sony’s next portable console, codenamed NGP creates a great demand in Japan, according to Kotaku . At least if you believe the gaming magazine Famitsu’s recent survey; 76.2 percent of those polled readers said that they want an NGP, 15.9 percent were undecided and only 7.9 percent claimed that they did not want one.

The console comes with dual analogue sticks and the graphics performance will be secon to none for handhelds. What would we prefer to play on Sony’s upcoming beast then? Well, not surprisingly it is Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts that the Japanese would rather have have in their pockets while on the road.

Is it worth trying to take up the batte axe and go after World of Warcraft for the title of most popular MMORPG, or is it doomed to fail? You bet it’s doomed to fail. Real Time Worlds became one of the latest victims of MMO death, a highly contagious and deadly disease that affects small developers who are betting too hard on the launch their its massively multiplayer online games. Hellgate: London was another fatal mistake and Tabula Rasa was quite possibly axed Richard Garriott’s career. Despite that, every developer has to give it a try.

The problem is that Blizzard does not want to share. World of Warcraft is closed to the outside world. Fresh MMO novices start playing it as their first game. Then they either get tired and stop with the genre altogether, or become serious players and will continue with WoW. Age of Conan had over 700,000 players shortly after the premiere. But now both it is down to around 100,000, which is indeed profitable, but hardly cause for celebration.

Final Fantasy XI retains many of its players, but mainly in Japan that for various reasons. It has become increasingly difficult as the competition increases. City of Heroes, City of Villains and Champions Online have all managed to capture some gamers, but unfortunately they are not that good. Age of Conan, Warhammer and lots of others have tried competing with better graphics, but a testament to how important graphics are for MMORPG gamers is Ultima Online – still alive after 15 years.

To get Warcraft-like success, you must not only have a Warcraft-like hype and Warcraft-style gameplay, you must also have a Warcraft-like durability. To kill World of Warcraft you need to surpass it in every respect . You must match the original game plus the three expansion packs, you need to get everything perfect and you have to do it without adding eight years of development and expenditure on it. With very simple means Blizzard has patched up World of Warcraft little by little until it reached the epic proportions we see today.

The best chance is perhaps to do something completely different. Guild Wars is a prime example. Another one is Eve Online. You can also drop the competition by no longer charging per month. This means that players are much more likely to take up a second line of role-playing, or perhaps try their hand at the genre to begin with. Dungeons & Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and even Everquest II is now free to play with some limitations.

Gears of War 3 hits retail shelves worldwide 20 September 2011.