NewsBites: May 27, 2009

Kojima Cockteases World Again… No One Is Surprised (Kojima’s Teaser)

Kojima Production’s “NEXT” Teaser site ended the second countdown yesterday, only to reveal a THIRD countdown.  With this one set to end Sunday night (EST), the site is now flashing some new letters (currently:  S P E R e 3), and what appears to be Big Boss.  Of course, this being Kojima, an interview with him was also published in this week’s issue of Famitsu, showing off one more screen of the teaser site, a picture of Raiden (to date, his image has not popped up on the site yet).  Everyone again is looking too hard, so whatever you hear, just wait till Sunday, where in all likelyhood, a NEW countdown will appear.

NamcoBandai Cellius’s EVA Project is Newscaster Misato (ANN)

Okay, so it’s not a game.  We should have seen this coming, since Cellius’s first revealed project for the PS3 was a online Gundam encyclopedia.  One of those quirky things that the PS3 is doing, it’s a downloadable program that has Misato report the news to you.  Japanese news probably, although if it does allow it, we’d probably set it to having her read the French news.  We still probably won’t understand a thing she’s saying, but at least she’ll sound sexy.

Microsoft Announces Zune HD (Engadget)

Considering how close the announcement is to E3 (next week, people), it’s a bit odd Microsoft didn’t save the announcement till then.  Sure, they’ll probably show it off at E3 now, but the whole “oooooh, purty” factor sort of gets taken down a notch when it’s not a surprise.