I forgot to mention that Metal Gear Online has been updated to include a new map and game mode, the latter being most appealing to me. From the Playstation Blog:

In this rule, there will be one character and two teams in the game. Snake, Red team, and Blue team. Snake’s mission is to collect a certain number of dog tags, by having other players stunned or held up. Red and Blue teams’ mission is to defeat Snake certain times or defeat more players in the opposing team. If more than 10 people are in the game, another player may play as Snake’s mini robotic sidekick Mk. II, to assist the Snake player. If you are playing as Snake, you have many of his incredible abilities available to you – such as the camouflage!

There’s aspects of the beta that are fun but it still needs a lot of work before the final version comes out.

I’ll be doing lots of drug deals and hookers for a while so someone better come up with a highly entertaining and thought provocative post whilst I’m gone, okies?

Well, the game was leaked on to torrent sites and has been confirmed to work – but you idiots couldn’t stop there, eh? Had to jump into the online play? Well that was dumb. You do know that all of your Live stats are recorded?

So not only does Microsoft know you have a pirated version of the game, they know your Xbox 360 is modded to play it! Good luck with that one. You’re about to meet Mr. Ban-hammer, me thinks.

-GTA IV Leak. . .

Sick burn.

I’ll be playing this weekend though. PSN: Raiden218

See you at midnight.

The only huge down side for me? I’m sick. I’ve had a cold since Monday night and it’s wrecking me.

That hasn’t prevented me, luckily enough, to get some pictures of the new Metal Gear Online Premier Beta. No game-play yet, as the servers don’t go live until the 21st. Check the jump for more pictures those of you who didn’t get in on the beta might be missing. I’ll post my gamer id for those of you who did get in in case you care to join.

Until today that is.

Fill out the following form here for a chance to get a MGO Beta voucher code redeemable on the 17th. I filled it out and immediately received an email containing the voucher code. Hurry, this won’t last forever

-Playstation Blog (US)

The Xbox 360 may be getting its own take on the Wii remote later this year, reports MTV News, with Microsoft said to have been knee deep in “X-remote” development since Summer of 2007. MTV cites an anonymous developer who alleges that a motion-sensitive controller is being developed alongside a Mii-like avatar system with the input of developer Rare, who is said to be late on delivering a “unified interface and look for the controller.”

The unnamed source provided MTV with a sketch, which our hasty mock up to the left is based on.

More from Kotaku

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Meanwhile, we’ve been preparing for the launch of the new maps on the PS3 as well via PSN. So we should have details on that in the near future (hopefully next week). I’m in the process of setting up some Play with the Devs games as well as looking into other similar things we can just like the launch of the map packs on Xbox 360. Please don’t feel ignored if every platform isn’t mentioned in each post, a lot goes into every release (especially something as big as a map pack release), so typically when I post I’m focused at the subject at hand specifically.

Luckily though it’s getting to that time for the PS3 to be the focus for a while with the launch of the Game of the Year Edition on PS3, the Variety Map Pack hitting PSN, and setting up some launch weekend events for you guys when the maps hit.

As I said we are getting close to having official details on exact release dates and info on the GOTY Edition for PS3 hitting stores worldwide, as well as when you can expect the Map Pack to be up on PSN for download. That’s my main focus for next week.

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-fourzerotwo