Metal Gear Solid Actor Claims Kojima Industries is No More

<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s been ages since the Konami we thought we knew existed as such&period; The publisher&&num;8217&semi;s mysterious firing&sol;not-firing of Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima earlier this year was arguably the first shot fired in the unfolding drama surrounding <em>Metal Gear Solid V<&sol;em> developer&comma; Kojima Productions&period; The second saw Konami <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;silent-hills-will-never-heard&sol;">pull the plug<&sol;a> on what was to be the upcoming <em>Silent Hills&comma; <&sol;em>helmed by both Kojima and director Guillermo Del Toro&period; Now one of <em>MGS V<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s own is speaking up from Konami&&num;8217&semi;s own shores – and the news isn&&num;8217&semi;t good for what may be Kojima Productions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;quiet-drops-metal-gear-solid-v&sol;">Metal Gear Solid V&colon; The Phantom Pain<&sol;a><&sol;em> voice actor Akio Otsuka&comma; the man behind the Japanese language version of Big Boss&comma; now claims that Kojima Productions &&num;8220&semi;was forced to disband&comma;&&num;8221&semi; despite his belief that &&num;8220&semi;the work that the team has been putting their utmost effort into is nearly complete&&num;8221&semi; according to a Tweet of his this week as it was translated by Gematsu&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"ja" dir&equals;"ltr">コジプロは解散させられてしまったが、チームの奮闘により作品はどうやらほぼ完成となった。掛け値なしに最高の傑作となった筈！早く「待たせたな」と言いたくて仕方ない&lpar;笑&rpar;これが最期になったとしとも…MGS は 不滅 です！<br &sol;>コジプ&&num;8230&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;9zeTNDpNxp">http&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;9zeTNDpNxp<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; 大塚 明夫 &lpar;&commat;AkioOtsuka&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;AkioOtsuka&sol;status&sol;619604474022096896&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">July 10&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>Continuing&comma; Otsuka reassured fans that <em>Metal Gear Solid V<&sol;em> is definitely the game fans have been waiting for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I’m not exaggerating when I say that I expect it will become their greatest masterpiece&period; I couldn’t help it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Otsuka said&period; &&num;8220&semi;I just wanted to say &OpenCurlyQuote;Kept you waiting&comma; huh&quest;’ &lpar;Laughs&period;&rpar; But even if this is the end&comma; Metal Gear Solid is immortal&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Metal Gear Solid V&colon; The Phantom Pain<&sol;em> crawls out of the shadows this <strong>Sept&period; 1st<&sol;strong> for Playstation 4&comma; Playstation 3&comma; Xbox One&comma; Xbox 360&comma; and Windows for PC alongside Avalanche Studio&&num;8217&semi;s take on an open-world <em>Mad Max <&sol;em>– no fire spewing guitarists included&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;AkioOtsuka">&commat;AkioOtsaku<&sol;a> on Twitter &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;gematsu&period;com&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;solid-snake-japanese-voice-actor-kojima-productions-disbanded&num;dGdjM6jzh0rYHiEt&period;99">Gematsu<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;