Metal Gear Solid is a long standing video game franchise spanning 20 years and multiple platforms. It’s success is largely due to it’s memorable characters, and it’s rinse-wash-repeat game play. Each iteration is a carbon copy of it’s previous installment; just a different story, and new outlandish/absurd characters. You play as Solid Snake, an elite solider sent on a mission of eliminating all Metal Gear (WMDs) variants. You sneak around (sometimes in box), dispense guards, take out comicbook-esque villains with challenging powers/abilities (most unique part of the game) and eventually fight the big boss (your clone, brother/twin, ex-room mate, or some silly twist of fate). Sounds simplistic when you lay it out like that, but it’s a tried and true formula. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? Well, maybe not. Konami is changing shit up…

Konami unveiled a six minute trailer for their upcoming game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Promising ”tactical espionage redefined,” the game boasts an open world take on the franchise, real-time weather, persistent day/night cycle, a ton of vehicles, and “unparalleled strategic freedom.”

Well that sounds fresh, doesn’t it? I’ve always enjoyed Metal Gear, despite it essentially being the same game over and over again. I never thought it was stagnant enough to warrant any radical changes, but I welcome them. It’s a new Metal Gear for a new generation (literally).  Check out the 6 minute preview below, and tell us what you think:

As for the game’s storyline, what we know so far is that it involves rescuing the character Kaz Miller, who originally appeared in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

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The E3 trailer for Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs is online and can be watched below!

In Watch Dogs, players enter the dangerous world of Aiden Pearce, a new class of antihero whose ability to hack into any connected system could be his most powerful weapon. Whether it’s triggering a 30-car pileup by manipulating traffic-lights to trap an enemy during a downtown shootout or tapping into the city’s omnipresent security cameras to access anyone’s personal information, Pearce is capable of coercing and controlling almost every element of the world around him.

Watch Dogs goes beyond the limits of today’s open-world games by giving players the ability to control an entire city and monitor everything. It’s like GTA for the voyeuristic enthusiast. The hyper connectivity, and endless possibilities of this game are just insane. I dunno how enthralling the game play will be, but I can say it’s the most interesting cross-gen games currently in development

The anticipated game will be available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC on November 19 and for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the fourth quarter.

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Peter Jackson has revealed the first poster for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. And if you look closely, you can see a tiniest little hint of the dragon, Smaug. Check it out below:

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EDITORS NOTE: Attention readers of Nerd Bastards. We our proud to present our newest comic book column. Forgetting our past meager attempts at blogging the latest happenings in the comic-verse, we are now offering examinations via Youtube personality Kelly Carlton (aka F’N Pryde). ‘Ole Pryde here is a busty, foul mouthed comic connoisseur. She’s here to give you the run down of this week latest grabs in a segment called “Pryde’s Picks”.

Hi guys, Pryde here. I’m poppin’ my Nerd Bastards cherry with my very first entry. (Squee!) I’ve been doing “Pryde’s Picks” on my YoutTube page for a while now, but sharing myself on this platform, with this audience, is the coolest. So, yeah, I have boobs and read comics. Aren’t I the darnedest? From here on out, I’ll be your guide on the most topical offerings this side of the Marvel and DC universes and everything in between.  I’ll tell you what’s hot and what’s not, and be cursing like a sailor throughout. Enjoy.

We are gonna start with one book from DC (Batman Detective Comics #2) 1, do a butt load of Marvels (Age of Ultron #9, Thanos Rising #3, All New X-Men #12, Superior Spider-Man #11), and round it out with a few books from Vertigo Comics (Astro City #1, The Wake #1).

And… here… we… go…

WARNING: My reviews are spoiler heavy, so don’t feel butt hurt if I ruin something for you.

For more of me (and you know you want more), you can check out my YoutTube page and “like” me on Facebook. Remember, Keep Calm and Comic On.

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

ABOVE: King Koopa crochet sweater turns your tortoise into Bowser. Mehehe, turtles got a “derp” face. [ObviousWinner]

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Hasbro is the dominate supplier for action figures and accessories. Go to ToysRUs sometime, and you’ll see an entire aisle featuring their Star Wars, Transformers, GI: Joe and Marvel lines. It’s like they’re a Monopoly or something – oh, yeah, they own that too! Being the biggest makers of plastic play things comes with a high customer expectation. Toys have to be of quality and affordable. Obviously Habro delivers on this promise, else they wouldn’t get the rights to all those big franchises. They do, however, on a occasion, put stuff out there that blows some minds. Stuff that feverishly becomes the envy of toy nerd enthusiasts. This is one of those times…

After a strange tease about a Deadpool taco truck yesterday by Marvel, Hasbro and Marvel have now revealed a brand new 2013 San Diego Comic-Con exclusive set. The set below, which comes in a taco truck packaging with each figure in taco shell packaging (I thought Deadpool liked chimichangas), includes the following figures Deadpool, Lady Deadpool, Champion of the Universe, Kidpool, Dogpool and Squirrelpool.

Check out the photos of this exclusive set below. Mean while I’ll be puking rainbows. Me need!

Missing Headpool, aren’t we? Tsk, Hasbro almost had the perfect set. Regardless, this will be $50 at Comic Con, and $200+ on Ebay. Damn the lucky bastards attending SDCC.

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

ABOVE: Cosplayers Mead Mel Madigan (what an excellent name) and Heather 1337 as Spider-Man’s Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy in bed together. I’ll be in my web.

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Man of Steel has less than two weeks now until the big release and we’ve already heard what the early watchers have to say about the film, most of those things positive.  Now, Comic Book Movie managed to pin down some of the cast and crew from the flick and get in a few interviews.  Thanks to the power of the Internetz, we here at the Nerd Bastards can circulate said interviews to you, so that everyone gets a chance to hear what these folks have to say.  Check after the jump to watch CBM talk with Zack Snyder, Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon and Antje Traue.

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

ABOVE: I think I bent his wookie – Han Solo in carbonite light switch [Thisiswhyimbroke]

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

ABOVE: Seductive Harley Quinn. She knows how to make some smiles, puddin’  [GeeksAresSexy]

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