Metal Gear Rising and ZOE HD Collector's Editions Revealed

Konami has revealed Collector's Editions for both Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Zone of the Enders HD Collection at its San Francisco Gamer's Night.

The Metal Gear Rising Collector's Edition will include the game, the soundtrack and a "High Frequency Plasma Lamp" with a replica of Raiden's blade embedded in it.

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The Zone of the Enders Collector's Edition will feature the game, the soundtrack and a special 100-page art book.

Prices for the Collector's Editions were not revealed.

Source : ign[dot]com

Metal Gear Rising on 360 Cancelled in Japan, Still on for West

The Xbox 360 version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will still release in Western Markets, despite it being cancelled in Japan.

Konami announced this morning that the version of Platinum Games' upcoming hack 'n' slash planned for Microsoft's console in Japan had been canned, though no reason for the decision was given.

A statement given to IGN though confirms that this will have no impact on the game's Western release. It reads, "Metal Gear Rising Revengeance for Xbox 360 and PS3 will be released in the West as planned in February 2013."

While we can only speculate why the game was cancelled in Japan, it's probably due to the fact that the Xbox 360 isn't as well established as the PS3 over there, and is unlikely to be due to any performance issues pertaining to the game on Microsoft's console.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will be released on February 19 in America and February 21 in Europe on PS3 and Xbox 360. A PC version was originally planned, but later cancelled.

Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Editorial Assistant and personally prefers the Raiden from Mortal Kombat. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.

Source : ign[dot]com