Japan gets Metal Slug 7 next month, but don't bother importing it with the terrible Dollar to Yen exchange rate. Ignition Entertainment will co-publish the game with SNK Playmore one season later in fall 2008. The last build of Metal…

SNK Playmore licensed the Metal Slug franchise to Dragonfly, a Korean MMO developer who recently licensed the Unreal 3 Engine. While Metal Slug Zero / Metal Slug Online has 3D graphics it doesn’t look like Dragonfly is using it for the…

Whoa! Metal Slug 7 still has some surprises that I didn’t see when I played it. This trailer shows two new slugs, the tethered Slug Tank and my favorite addition, the Slug Gigant. The mammoth slug takes up 4/5ths of…

Specifically, July 17. The first Nintendo DS iteration of Metal Slug has a seven stage main mission to complete. After you save the world you can try out eighty bite size combat missions given out by Cynthia. Back at GDC,…

I picked Marco and jumped straight into the third mission. Stone towers with mounted guns shot flashing orbs from above and green soldiers marched on the ground. The turrets took a few shots to destroy, but the standard Metal Slug…

SNK chose to censor the red goo in the Xbox Live Arcade version of Metal Slug 3, but with a simple trick you can change the white zombie vomit back to its original form. Insert Credit points out switching your…

Metal Slug 3 rocks, it’s probably my favorite game in the Metal Slug series. On January 2, 2008 it’s getting updated with HD graphics and more importantly online play through Xbox Live. Unlike other arcade to Xbox Live Arcade ports…

Short, but sweet is the best way to describe the Tokyo Game Show demo. Even though Metal Slug’s latest installment moved on to a smaller screen with no arcade counterpart, it’s the same old Metal Slug you have come to…

The latest issue of Famitsu is reporting that Metal Slug 7, the latest in SNK's popular series of 2D sidescrolling shooters, is heading to the DS. What's strange, though, is that apparently the game is ONLY heading to the DS.…

Glancing over the Tokyo Game Show list again there are lots of entries from SNK Playmore. Most of the games have been announced before like World Heroes Gorgeous and KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation A. The one brand new entry is Days…

For some of the same reasons that SNK’s King of Fighters series is ostensibly, erm, the king of fighters, Metal Slug, the specialty developer’s other sweetheart since 1996, rules the lonely roost of the run ‘n gun genre and occulted…

Maybe I’m completely off here, but I assume almost everyone knows what Metal Slug is.  For those few who have no idea what it is, it’s a fast paced side-scrolling arcade shooter.  That sounds like an understatement because it really…