Thursday will be the big day for the release of Metal Gear Solid 4, PS3/MGS4 bundle from Sony and legendary game designer of Metal Gear series, Hideo Kojima and voice actress, Yumi Kikuchi autograph signing at NY.

The awaited anticipation of the demanding MGS4 is almost over, fans have been waiting over 4 years since the release of MGS3 on the PS2. The game is suppose to be the finally conclusion to the Metal Gear saga. Every questions and doubts you had, will be answer. This is the reason to get the PS3 since it was the pricing and lack of quality games that drove many gamers away from purchasing one since the release of the system.

This Thursday will be hectic at the autograph signing. Hideo Kojima and Yumi Kikuch will only be there from 5pm – 7pm at UNIQLO Soho NY, estimated about 300 lucky fans will get autographs. I started to gather up all my MGS merchandise but apparently I don’t have much. I was able to find the original MGS PS1 soundtrack, MGS Portable Ops on the PSP, and the MGS4 art book. I feel so nerdy. The other conflict is that I usually work until 7pm. Looks like I’ll have to stealth out of work early in a cardboard box with the Fed Ex shipment in order to hopefully make it on time.

This morning I stoped by UNIQLO to see what this store is all about. It was a clothing store with a big Manga character on the store front. No they don’t sell anime and manga goodies here. Just some screen printed T-Shirts with manga and video game characters. I went inside to see if they had the MGS4 shirts on sale. Unfortunely I didn’t see any, I guess they will be on sale on Thursday.

Well if I can’t get an autograph, I should be able get the limited edition MGS4 shirt from UNIQLO and play some MGS4 this week. YATTA!

NewYork-Tokyo.com MGS4
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