Major Announcement Regarding Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Inbound

<p>Kojima Productions has tweeted today that a major announcement regarding the eagerly awaited <em>Metal Gear Solid V&colon; The Phantom Pain<&sol;em> will be made very soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The tweet&comma; which can be found below&comma; contains a direct link to Konami’s <a title&equals;"Metal Gear Solid V&colon; The Phantom Pain Website" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;konami&period;jp&sol;mgs5&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">official website<&sol;a> for <em>The Phantom Pain<&sol;em>&comma; which now has a countdown timer ticking away until the eventual reveal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Big Boss’ 1980s-themed watch is situated at the centre of the website&comma; while next to it is the character’s phantom cigar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Clicking on the cigar will speed up the clock—similar to the effect that it will have in <em>The Phantom Pain­<&sol;em>’s day&sol;night cycle—and Donna Burke’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sins of the Father” begins to play&comma; but it will eventually stop and a woman’s voice &lpar;which is also Burke&rpar; says &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Function unavailable&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Announcement Coming Soon&&num;8230&semi;&period;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;y2zvIH22ch">http&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;y2zvIH22ch<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;gJJbgHw2Hx">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;gJJbgHw2Hx<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; 小島プロダクション &lpar;&commat;kojima&lowbar;pro&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;kojima&lowbar;pro&sol;status&sol;572396805377245184&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">March 2&comma; 2015<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the announcement is currently two days away—at the time of writing this&comma; of course—speculation is that <em>The Phantom Pain<&sol;em>’s long-awaited release date will be confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The annual Game Developers Conference will be running from March 2nd to March 6th in San Francisco&comma; California&comma; and it was at this event in 2013 that series creator Hideo Kojima confirmed that<em> The Phantom Pain­<&sol;em> and its prologue&comma; 2014’s <a title&equals;"Short But Deadly Sweet &vert; Metal Gear Solid V&colon; Ground Zeroes Review" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;short-deadly-sweet-metal-gear-solid-v-ground-zeroes&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><em>Ground Zeroes<&sol;em><&sol;a>&comma; would be released separately&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>The Phantom Pain­<&sol;em>&comma; which will be the first fully-fledged open-world installment in the franchise&comma; takes place nine years after the events of <em>Ground Zeroes<&sol;em>&comma; as Big Boss awakens from a coma and begins the reconstruction of his mercenary organization &lpar;rebranded from &&num;8216&semi;Militaires Sans Frontières&&num;8217&semi; to &&num;8216&semi;Diamond Dogs&&num;8217&semi;&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Running on Kojima Productions’ Fox Engine&comma; <em>Metal Gear Solid V&colon; The Phantom Pain<&sol;em> is rumored to launch in Q2 of 2015 for PlayStation 3&comma; Xbox 360&comma; PlayStation 4&comma; Xbox One and PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a title&equals;"Kojima Productions Twitter" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;kojima&lowbar;pro" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Kojima Productions&&num;8217&semi; Twitter<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;