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Rather than hold all or its huge announcements until next week, Konami released its pre-E3 press conference today for fans to bask in. The hour-long video is embedded below, and it's followed by our breakdown of each and every story contained within it. There's news on Metal Gear Solid: Rising, a Zone of the Enders HD Collection, and so much more. Click away and live the E3 madness today.

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Konami's pre-E3 show pulls back the curtain on three different Silent Hill releases coming down the pipeline.

For the nostalgic, Konami has bundled Silent Hill 2 and 3 into an HD package called Silent Hill Collection. These two titles are getting the high-definition upgrade, so a whole new audience can enjoy these horror classics. No release date has been announced.

Exclusively for the new NGP handheld from Sony, Konami is developing Silent Hill: Book of Memories. They did not reveal any details about this handheld horror. A disclaimer over the game's logo states "This game has not been concept approved by Sony Computer Entertainment of America."

The biggest focus of Konami's Silent Hill presentation shows off Silent Hill: Downpour. This new entry into the series follows Murphy Pendleton, a prisoner who escapes a wrecked bus and finds himself stranded in Silent Hill. A new trailer shows off the eerie additions to this new title, including the creepy mailman who helps direct Murphy through the town and the mystery. ...

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Zone of the Enders is coming back in glorious HD format! Both Zone of the Enders games are being remastered in HD and is hitting the PlayStation 3 AND Xbox 360. Zone of the Enders will be out in 2012.

As for the Metal Gear Solid HD collection, it will include Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The MGS collection will be out this November. This will also hit the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Konami states that these HD version isn't an emulator. It's optimized and rebuilt specifically for the PS3 and Xbox 360. There's a new user interface, redrawn high-res 2D art, new trophies and Achievements and improved audio quality.

Additionally, both collections will have a new feature called "Transfarring." Yes, it's really spelled that way. Transfarring will allow PlayStation 3 and PSP owners to share one save that works between the two versions of Peace Walker. So far that will be the only game that works with Transfarring. The feature is also in the Zone of the Enders HD collection but Konami wouldn't detail why exactly. Possible PSP or NGP releases coming?

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In Konami's 2011 Pre-E3 Show, Hideo Kojima announced the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, a package of HD remakes combining Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (the PSP game released in 2010.) For the Japanese market, however, this triple pack is broken up across two different packages according to a listing on the Kojima Productions website. PlayStation Store and Xbox Live downloadable versions of all three games also appear to be planned, making for a la carte buying.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker: HD Edition will be released in Japan on November 11th for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game has been rebuilt on these platforms (rather than just running an emulation of the PSP game,) with Trophies/Achievements to unlock, 1080p HD graphics to enjoy, and dual-analog control to make the game more playable. The PS3 version also uses the "Transfarring" feature to allow cross-platform play with the PSP version of the game. Multiplayer co-op features from the PSP game will be carried over to the console games.

Metal Gear Solid: HD Edition includes high-definition remasterings of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Both games have been customized for a widescreen aspect ratio, and they are also bumped up to 720p HD and will run at 60 FPS. In Japan, the PS3 version of the package also includes a free download code to get the original PlayStation version of Metal Gear Solid 1 downloadable from the PlayStation Store Game Archives section.

It is unknown if Konami is considering any of these options for the North American versions of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.

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On Konami's Kojima Productions page for the Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, it was confirmed that developer Bluepoint Games will be handling the HD conversion of these PlayStation 2 titles for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 remasterings.

Bluepoint has garnered acclaim for its impressive work in making God of War I & II look even more amazing than the PS2 counterparts in the God of War Collection (released in 2008.) The team has since been courted as a premier specialist in HD conversions, and was chosen to handle the upcoming ICO and Shadow of the Colossus HD remasterings.

No developer is credited on the tandem remaster package Zone of the Enders HD Collection, which Kojima Productions itself may or may not be handling.

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Originally posted by Darth Jello
How about they remaster and rerelease the first two Metal Gear games instead? Or at least add MSX support on Virtual Console in North America?

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Originally posted by menokokoro
YES! You can play them if you get subsistance, so the translated game exists....idk, they should make that a download or something.

I am a really big mgs fan and all, but honestly...I think they need to put it on the shelf and work on something else. Kojima IS, working on other things, like a new graphics engine, so awesome! But I want to see what other NEW games he can come up with.

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Originally posted by S_D_J
My brother's sure gonna pick the MGS collection, so I'll probably end up replaying it, but I'm sure as hell picking up the SH Collection as I never finished SH2 nor ever played SH3

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Originally posted by socool8520
Whaaat? That's blasphemy sir. lol Nah, but seriously, those are definitely the best two in the series.

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The packaging says that you're getting Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, but that's not quite true. The reality is a little sweeter, as Hideo Kojima has confirmed that you're actually getting Metal Gear Solid: Subsistence.

For those who don't know, Subsistence is an enhanced version of Snake Eater. As well as the regular game, it also contains the MSX versions of the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2. That's like, two extra games, man.

The Japanese version of the game is going to be different. It won't, for example, include Peace Walker, but instead has a product voucher for the PSOne Classic Metal Gear Solid. Weird!

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Originally posted by MadMel
Possibly.
So there is a HD MGS1?

If that's the case I apologize for my minor outburst.

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Originally posted by Kazenji
I would like to know that too for the MGS HD collection will we be getting "Twin Snakes" or the old PS1 game but with a HD makeover.