According to theMagicBox, Peter Moore himself has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid 4 will be staying a PS3 exclusive. Rumor mill for now, but it sounds plausible.

Sneaking one last E3 news item from in GamersReports.com's massive first day coverage of E3 2007; Konami announced earlier this evening that Silent Hill 5 is in development for the Xbox360 and Playstation 3 game consoles. More after the jump.

Kojima-San has finished showing off the latest footage from Metal Gear Solid 4. He said the game shown was all real time, and frankly, the game has received another downgrade. We know that it is playing with fire to say so, but there is no other way to say it. The good news is that the game will have a simultaneous worldwide release, so Europe is no longer screwed. Unforunately, Kojima also reiteratied the fact that not only will this game be the last time we will join Snake's story, but Kojima himself is also done with any Metal Gear games. That does not necessarily mean there will not be any more MGS games, but Kojima will not be involved. Kojima-San has said this before, and it sounds like he does indeed mean business. By the way, MGS slipped to 2008.

Konami has opened the small teaser site for the Wii's upcoming DDR game, "Hottest Party." The site provides commentary from some of the development team, who speak a bit about how they came up with a control scheme on the Wii for a game like DDR.

The recently announced Contra 4 sequel for the Nintendo DS is the first Contra game in a while. 1up has gotten their hands on a preview of the new sequel, and they give us the rundown. The game is very similar to Contra III apparently, and anyone who is a fan of the series should be able to jump right in. Great news!

Akira Yamaoka is the music and sound producer for the Silent Hill series and came to Stockholm June 2 to perform with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for 2 nightd of "Play! A Video Game Symphony." The SPelmusik team got the chance to speak with him briefly about Silent Hill 5, and what he had to say was not encouraging.

Speaking of Silent Hill 5, can you tell us anything about how the music in the game will sound?

- Can I ask you a question first: have we announced Silent Hill 5 yet?

No.

Yamaoka laughes and then we get kind of an answer. It is still so far ahead so I have nothing in mind!

Sounds like late 2008 to us. Rumor mill for now, though.

Konami has announced that they are working on a new Contra game for the DS. The game, tentatively titled Contra 4, takes place two years after the events of Contra III. After saving earth from invasion by Red Falcon, Bill Rizer and Lance Bean are confronted with a new extraterrestrial menace: the terrifying Black Viper. It never ends for these guys! Click read more for the full info.

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 20, 2007 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., today announced Contra 4 (working title) for the Nintendo DS™. Marking the 20th anniversary of the quintessential action franchise, the game pushes 2D side-scrolling action in an all-new direction with gunplay that spans two full screens, original gameplay mechanics that grant players deadlier abilities than ever before, and frantic multiplayer functionality.

'Learning' AI, new Next Gen iterations, and specific enhancements to gameplay revealed in Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH's new Pro Evolution Soccer. Click read more for full press release.

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Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has announced that PES 2008 will be released in Autumn 2007. The latest edition to the multi-million-selling Pro Evolution Soccer series will be released for PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox 360, PC-DVD, PlayStation®2, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) and Nintendo DS, and is primed to be the definitive football title for any format.

An old school NES classic is coming to Xbox Live Arcade. According to reader Dr. Yosh, who set us these images, Track & Field, the NES button-masher, is set for release on the Xbox Live Arcade within the next month or two. This game certainly brings back a ton of good memories. Thanks, Dr. Yosh!

There is so much news in this rumor category, we are tempted to start a completely separate heading just for Metal Gear Solid 4 multi-platform rumors. Be that as it may though, the rumor today comes from News4gamers. N4G is reporting that Konami has apparently removed the Playstation logo from the most recent MGS4 trailer. The trailer was originally re-released to tweak some visual bugs, but it has unintentionally whipped up our community into a tizzy. Stay tuned, and "super rumor" mill for now(Thanks, WeeWee).

The trailer was released on Konami's new Metal Gear 20th Anniversary website, and has quite a few noticeable differences between the original trailer which was released at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2006. The most striking of these differences is the removal of the Playstation 3 logo during the final credits, leading some gamers to believe that the game is no longer exclusive for the Playstation 3 platform. The Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer shown at the Tokyo Games Show also had its Playstation logo removed, which may indicate a pattern of change since E3 last year.