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Hideo Kojima A "Huge Fan" Of Twilight, Will Judge Your Fan Art

Michael McWhertor, of Kotaku.com, writes:

"Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is apparently a fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, opting in to judge a fan art contest themed around the second entry in the romantic vampire action series, New Moon.

That's according to a release from Japanese artist network pixiv--pretty much the overseas equivalent of deviantArt--which has tapped Kojima, Evangelion character designer and manga creator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and Twilight manga artist Ryuji Gotsubo to judge a Twilight: New Moon fan art contest.

Kojima, who I'd wager aligns himself with Team Jacob, is reportedly a "huge fan" of Twilight, according to the Anime News Network's translation of the release. He'll contribute his expert opinion as well as a signed copy of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, apparently, to the list of grand prizes."

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facepalm - 51 days 16 hours ago

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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qface64 - 51 days 15 hours ago

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now everything is making sense
all the pieces are falling together

tsk tsk tsk kojima

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tmt345 - 51 days 15 hours ago

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i signed in just to click agree

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iamtehpwn - 51 days 15 hours ago

1.3 - GAH

FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU--

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Timesplitter14 - 51 days 15 hours ago

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Hopes and dreams = shattered

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IzKyD1331 - 51 days 15 hours ago

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I honestly wish I never went on N4G today....this is just something you do not want to find out about a person

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Greywulf - 51 days 15 hours ago

1.6 - This...

is how i feel.

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Timesplitter14 - 51 days 14 hours ago

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As for how the console wars will go from now on, prepare for the worst

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sikbeta - 51 days 14 hours ago

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Hey, nobody is Perfect, not even Kojima XP

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XxZxX - 51 days 14 hours ago

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kojima love Boy with muscles............

did Kojima miss his teenage year like Michael Jackson did. So he is actually trying to make up to it by start watching ehhh... Twilight....

Yuck

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Whitefox789 - 51 days 13 hours ago

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THE INSANITY! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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theEnemy - 51 days 13 hours ago

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I rike Twiright.

-Hideo Kojima.

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umair_s51 - 51 days 12 hours ago

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I ask you folks one thing: What is wrong with liking a book? Why should I care what Mr. Kojima likes? I respect him because he's a talented game developer and not because what color he likes the most. Secondly, I respect him for having the courage to go out there and accepting this in the first place.

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PrimordialSoupBase - 51 days 10 hours ago

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No wonder he can't tell a coherent story if his life depended on it.

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Domenikos - 51 days 9 hours ago

1.14 - OMFG

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cmrbe - 51 days 2 hours ago

1.15 - Seriously

You kids need to grow up. The fact that you kids expect your idols to have the same taste as you kids is sad enough and shows how immature you guys really are. Omg!! My idol likes what I don't like!!. Seriously??. You kids need to you kids need to grow a pair and grow up.

Here are a few tips in life. You don't have to hate a chick flick to be a man. Not everyone you look up to in life is always perfect in your eyes like parents, brothers,sisters,friends etc.

I am not getting why there is so much hate for twilight as well. It's
Intended for girls mostly like harry was for kids so what if Kojima likes it?. I think twilight was watchable however I like true blood better.

How about you kids create a game like Kojima did and win numerous lifetime awards before dumping on him?. I won't be surprise if all you kids combined lifetime can't achieve what kojima achieve in 20 years in gaming.

You guys are really patheic.

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xXDevil-HunterXx - 50 days 21 hours ago

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Well that explains.........*gasp* Vamp.............

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ZeroBlitz - 50 days 21 hours ago

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All geniuses have some eccentricities. Be glad Kojima's is just an interest in bad angsty vampire romance novels. Plus there's a good chance this is simply a publicity thing as Twilight is the 'in' thing with girls at the moment (and you know how he likes to broaden the appeal of his games).

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RadientFlux - 50 days 20 hours ago

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MGV: - see what happens when vamp goes back to high school

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BLuKhaos - 50 days 19 hours ago

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C'mon kojima how can you like that crap.I mean vegetarian vampires that sparkle in the sun light and play softball in the woods, WTF is that?! but hey you do make some great games.

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Gandalf - 51 days 16 hours ago

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TheAntiFanboy - 51 days 16 hours ago

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kaveti6616 - 51 days 12 hours ago

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Mista T - 51 days 15 hours ago

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so erhhh, Kojima, I thought the creator of MGS would have a lot more testosterone than this, he should be more of a Rambo fan than a Twilight fan

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JsonHenry - 51 days 15 hours ago

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Have you looked at this guy? He dresses like a moron, loads his games up with hours of emotionally charged cut scenes, and probably only weighs a buck ten at the most - and this news surprises ANYONE?!

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TheAntiFanboy - 51 days 15 hours ago

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Don't forget he makes his characters talk in circles. He and Meyer share a very similar writing style.

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tehk1w1 - 51 days 14 hours ago

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Neither authors can write worth a story worth a damn IMO.

Twilight is a terrible, unoriginal Mary Sue fanfic

And Metal Gear Solid is redundant, non-nonsensical psychobabble and pretentious, intellectual masturbation interspersed with giant robots, perverted camera angles that objectify women as sex objects, and the occasional gun fight.

I still love Metal Gear Solid, but I always kind of laugh whenever anyone praises it for telling a good story. It's a fun game and a decent action movie, but a deep, compelling story it certainly is not.

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sikbeta - 51 days 13 hours ago

3.4 - @Mista T

Come on man, everyone make mistakes, at least he is not a huge fan of bakstreetboyz or britney spears lol

@JsonHenry

He doesn't need to dress for you, dress observations are gay man and about the "hours of emotionally charged cut scenes", well is about the end of an STORY that you need to follow from the first MGS, is not Quake or Duke Nukem

To much GeOW for you lol

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xXDevil-HunterXx - 50 days 21 hours ago

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Or a Mista T fan righ..?

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Pandamobile - 51 days 15 hours ago

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Welp, I've officially lost all respect for the man.

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ghost-mutation - 51 days 15 hours ago

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Welp, I've officially gained more respect for this man. No need to be ashamed of enjoying a book.

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Pandamobile - 51 days 15 hours ago

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But it's Twilight.

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KnaveX - 51 days 14 hours ago

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Gabe Newell is fat.

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tehk1w1 - 51 days 14 hours ago

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You do when that book is Twilight.

It's like "Hey guys, I'm a respected man famous for making video games into a viable medium for art. Oh, and by the way, The Hills is my most favorite show ever."

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Timesplitter14 - 51 days 14 hours ago

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Gabe Newell's so fat, he caused an earthquake when he dropped out of Harvard

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sikbeta - 51 days 14 hours ago

4.6 - @Pandamobile

You really have high standards XD

@KnaveX

You can't say that about Newell, because, eh.... you are right he is fat XP

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XxZxX - 51 days 13 hours ago

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if anybody beside teenage girls has high standard because they doesn't like twilight, hell i believe most of us in N4g has pretty high standard here. But wait a minute, issit us have high standard or them, have low standard. hmmmmm

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Homicide - 51 days 13 hours ago

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High standards? Twilight is terrible. All respect is lost.

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evrfighter - 51 days 12 hours ago

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Gabe Newell is fat

BUT

Hideo Kojima loves Twilight.

Gabe Newell is my hero.

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Pandamobile - 51 days 11 hours ago

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Nothing wrong with fat people, but for a dude to love Twilight is just wrong.

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EdFry - 51 days 9 hours ago

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Bubbles and Agrees.

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sabestar - 51 days 15 hours ago

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Well I guess this explains the whole thing with Vamp in mgs

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DLA2K9 - 51 days 15 hours ago

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WoW...you guys are pathetic....Twilight is an Awesome series!!! yes i am a guy (i think)

and im sure you all think Lord of the rings and star wars are for nerds only too right? oh and Wrestling (WWE) is for gay people!!! gotta love stereotypes...

Grow up people!!

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Mc Fadge - 51 days 15 hours ago

6.1 - Not so much the series

It's the fanbase, and the fact they play up the story to be more than it really is. It really is made for girls I'm sorry to say.

That doesn't mean guys can't enjoy it, but that's the target audience.

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NiteX - 51 days 15 hours ago

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What does World of Warcraft have to do with any of this?

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DLA2K9 - 51 days 15 hours ago

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go Jacob!! lol....(im not gay)

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Bob Dole - 51 days 15 hours ago

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Because 300 year old pedophile vampires hitting on 17 year old girls isn't creepy at all...

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Razmossis - 51 days 14 hours ago

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Seriously, anyone who thinks Twilight makes for a good watch needs to go watch Oz or The Wire, then you'll see what good Acting, Writing and Story-telling really looks like

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Lich120 - 51 days 14 hours ago

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No, it's not that vampires are gay or have anything to do with fantasy. It's that the books are terribly written and the first movie, I don't know about the second, was terribly done as well.

Look at the reading level of the book:
http://bookwizard.scholasti...

as opposed to say a good fantasy novel like The Fellowship of the Ring:
http://bookwizard.scholasti...

The fact of the matter is, it is not intelligently written... Im not saying you can't like it. But as far as written works go, it's pretty much crap.

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CernaML - 51 days 16 hours ago

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Oh dear...

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Greywulf - 51 days 14 hours ago

1.1 - On second thought..

You guys can have mgs :\

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kaveti6616 - 51 days 12 hours ago

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I don't get it, so you guys make remarks that imply that Kojima is gay because he likes Twilight, and suddenly a whole bunch of people say they lost respect for him? What the hell is this, the 1950s? I thought society had progressed a bit more, but I guess I am wrong. So what if he likes the series, so what if he turns out to be gay? The guy makes great games. My respect for him has not changed. In reality I am indifferent to the news. I had a feeling he was gay because I always said he dressed very stylishly, which might sound stereotypical on my part, but as far as stereotypes go, saying that a certain group of people dresses well is not really something to get upset about.

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NecrumSlavery - 51 days 14 hours ago

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Mr Kojima has turned into a nutcase.

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FiftyFourPointTwo - 51 days 14 hours ago

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W.........T..........F

Still, my respect for Mr. Kojima will never change.

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Saaking - 51 days 13 hours ago

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This is very disappointing.

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foreverflame - 51 days 13 hours ago

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PS3 fans are so pathetic

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Saaking - 51 days 12 hours ago

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Twiltight is terrible and I think most of it's fans are teen girls. Have you tried reading the books? They define bad writing.

Oh, and PS3 fans aren't pathetic. We don't brag about expansions, time exclusivity, we don't buy a machine with a high failure rate and last gen hardware, we don't pay for stuff that should be free or included in the system. That's you bots.

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kaveti6616 - 51 days 12 hours ago

5.2 - @saaking

Yeah, but a lot of PS3 owners on these boards often say that the only reason they bought a PS3 was for one major game, whether it be Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, etc. That sounds pathetic to me, and a little hypocritical because those very same fans argue that 360 owners only got the 360 was for halo.

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Saaking - 51 days 11 hours ago

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PS3 owners got a PS3 becuase of the variety and innovative AAA games it offers. I'm sure some of the major franchises (GT, MGS) influenced the decision, but in the end they go the PS3 because it's great and becuase of what it offers.

The 360 offers NOTHING the PS3 doesn't have (the Ps3 has MUCH more than the 360). The only thing the 360 has that the PS3 doesn't is Halo and Gears.

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Soda Popinsky - 51 days 8 hours ago

5.4 - @Saaking

Not you though. You got a PS3 (although I doubt you have one) so you could go onto N4G and whine about it 24/7.

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cheapndirty - 50 days 20 hours ago

5.5 - @saaking

I see you have a gamertag for XBL on your Bio. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that is really your tag and not some 'borrowed' one to feign 360 ownership.

If there is no other reason to own a 360 except Halo and Gears why have you played all of those games below? Looks like you played Halo 3 online yesterday. Care to explain?

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Tinted Eyes - 50 days 19 hours ago

5.6 - ^^^

Stalker.

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cheapndirty - 50 days 19 hours ago

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Stalker? Ha! It does not take a genius to figure about that there are many members here that resort to some pretty low things to try to further their 'agenda'. If his XBL is fake it would not be the first time someone here attached a fake gamertag to their bio. Get it?

All I did was a quick cut and paste. Now please go back to the usual Sony rhetoric.

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corywebb93 - 51 days 12 hours ago

6 - Pathetic

this just shows that all ps3 owners are emos that cut themselves and have gay fantasies off robert pattinson

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Saaking - 51 days 11 hours ago

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Why'd you have to come back?

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Mr Face Creamer - 51 days 3 hours ago

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The same reason you did Saaking! To get yourself owned!

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Soda Popinsky - 51 days 8 hours ago

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Great games. Shame to hear he's a pedo.

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Obama - 51 days 8 hours ago

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So you are saying all the teen girls that love twilight are pedophiles as well??

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Soda Popinsky - 50 days 18 hours ago

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Since when is Kojima a teen girl?

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ChartedMetalTurismo - 50 days 19 hours ago

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Kojima is a great man, but when he said he was blown away by Natal you know something is wrong in his head. Eyetoy HD, LOL. Keep stealing more ideas MicroSHIT, you won't be in the console race much longer. The PS3 is closing in and is about to take out the Poopbox 54.2% 3fixme!

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