The awfully embarrassing Spike TV Video Game Awards aired this weekend, complete with a full set of announcements to actually get people to care. Hideo Kojima appeared on stage at the very end of the show in order to reveal new information about the long-awaited Metal Gear spinoff game, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. That's right, the subtitle is revengeance. All jokes aside, the game looks really good, and it's being developed by Platinum Games, the geniuses behind Bayonetta and Vanquish.

Check out the trailer below the jump, courtesy of Gametrailers.

Hideo Kojima's highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for the PS3 will also be released on the Vita! During last night's Sony Entertainment press conference, Kojima announced that the game will be on both consoles, with his new 'transfarring' feature enabled, meaning you will be able to use your saves on both systems. These versions will be identical, and will include Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (with Metal Gear 1 and 2) and Peace Walker.

In addition to this news, Sony has also announced that most downloadable PSP titles will be compatible with the Vita. These games will also support the second analog stick included on the new console. Sony is also considering a way for UMD owners to transfer their games onto the Vita.

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan announced at their press conference that HD editions of certain popular games are going to be released on their PlayStation 3 and PS Vita platforms. Square-Enix will be releasing Final Fantasy X HD Edition on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita. Konami will release Zone of the Enders HD Edition (Z.O.E.) for both of the previously mentioned consoles, as well as the Xbox 360. As of this time a release date is unknown.

Sources: [Anime News Network via 4Gamer]

There is one thing that sets 3D girls and 2D girls apart (other than their cuteness and the ability to turn one kind off at will) and that one thing is exclusivity. Sure your waifu may be your waifu but she can be seeing other men without you or her knowing it. Not to say anyone's waifu is cheating on them, but what if someone picks up your DS and starts playing with your girl. She'll be none the wiser as to it being someone else. Well you could be like that guy who married his Nintendo DS... but there has to be a better way.

Enter Konami's Love Plus 3DS, the first dating simulation so advanced that it uses facial recognition (via the 3DS' built in cameras) to make sure you are who your virtual girlfriend thinks you are. This technology, dubbed the "Boyfriend Lock" checks the current players face. If it can't identify them, the heroines would do what any normal person would, ask "Who are you?".

I'm not sure what's more amazing, the fact that technology allows for such realism or the fact that more people are probably going to opt-out of real relationships for a virtual girlfriend who is now guaranteed to never cheat on you. Let us know what you think in the comments below!

Source: [Japanator]

The lovely bride to be...

An unnamed man known only by his Nico Nico Douga username, SAL9000 is finally officially married to Nene Anegasaki, from Konami’s Love Plus, for the Nintendo DS. The truth is most certainly stranger than fiction, as we found out, when last week a church in Guam pronounced the couple, man and copy of dating sim character.