Big Kojima announcement coming May 18

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted May 13, 2009 3:13 pm PT

[UPDATE 2] Famitsu and now-live teaser site indicate Konami's Metal Gear Solid studio is unveiling something on Monday in Japan--is it the rumored Xbox 360 MGS4, Zone of the Enders 3, or a new IP?

Hot on the heels of rumors of a new Konami Xbox 360 exclusive and a Metal Gear Solid 4 port comes apparent proof that a major Kojima Productions announcement is imminent. Multiple online sources have posted scans of a two-page advertisement attributed to this week's issue of Famitsu magazine, Japan's top gaming publication.

Someone's gonna have a case of the Mondays.

The scan (pictured) shows a bleak landscape of dead grass and leafless shrubs under a bleak gray sky. On the horizon, a pair of figures can be made out, along with a low-lying building and a road. Besides the Konami and Kojima Productions logos, the ad has only two pieces of text: the date "2009.5.18"--next Monday--and the URL www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next. As of press time, the URL only brought up a "not found" error page from the official Japanese Konami Web site.

Unfortunately, that's all the information available about the upcoming Konami project. However, if it is one of the two rumored 360 projects, Microsoft will have some wind in its sails coming into its June 1 press conference at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Then again, the last time an Xbox 360 version of MGS4 was rumored, it ended up being Metal Gear Solid Touch for the iPhone.

Another possibility is a new installment in the Kojima-produced Zone of the Enders series, which has been dormant since 2003's Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. At his 2009 Game Developers Conference keynote address, studio head Hideo Kojima also teased that the "next MGS" might be a spin-off starring recurring hero Raiden.

[UPDATE] Unfortunately, nothing will be official until next Monday, as a cheery Konami rep would only say, "You'll have to wait until May 18th!"

[UPDATE 2] The teaser site is now live, and shows the same barren landscape and cloudy sky as the scans of the magazine ad. The header for the site merely says "KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS 'NEXT.'"

694 Comments

  • SQUALL20XX

    Posted Jun 9, 2009 11:32 am PT

    How could he do that to Sony

  • SSBFan12

    Posted Jun 7, 2009 8:41 am PT

    I wonder what it is going to be.

  • GaRdYbOy

    Posted Jun 5, 2009 11:30 am PT

    owned....again.....

  • asian_pride69

    Posted Jun 3, 2009 7:30 pm PT

    Metal Gear Rising right? 360 and PS3.

  • PSFreak1

    Posted Jun 3, 2009 6:20 am PT

    ya june 1st, get ur info right man!!

  • gmax Site moderator

    Posted Jun 2, 2009 8:23 am PT

    I guess this means something.

  • Gamer4Iife

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 4:31 pm PT

    May 18th ?... More like June 1st...

  • DarkNeoBahamut

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 2:35 pm PT

    already saw that

  • volcanicmax_009

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 2:09 pm PT

    this will prove my point even more that Xbox360 are the biggest biters in the world of gaming. can't make a great exclusive anymore to save their so they have to take MEGS too.

  • borninvincible

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 9:58 am PT

    they need to get on with it... they are killing me.

  • Strife88

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 9:25 am PT

    There always has to be countdowns. I hope they just announce it today!

  • shinian

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 4:46 am PT

    "If" MGS4 will be ported to x360 then it will be the end of big 3rd party exclusives era.

  • dth_dlr

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 3:53 am PT

    should be a good surprise. who knows if MGS4 is on its way to 360, but we shall find out soon enough.

  • minimme

    Posted Jun 1, 2009 2:26 am PT

    XBOX fanboys, stupid xbox fanboys. Get over yourselves, they're done with MGS4. Hideo himself said that MGS4 will stay PS3 exclusive, just get over yourselves.

    PC>PS3>360>Wii

  • GeneralArrow

    Posted May 31, 2009 11:15 pm PT

    If you watch it, for a while it shows some characters

  • MGSsuperfan

    Posted May 31, 2009 1:05 pm PT

    guys the teaser restarts tommoro at 3:59 so be at da teaser and see what happens

  • MattCut09

    Posted May 31, 2009 12:01 pm PT

    Oh my god, ok seriously i own an xbox but have spent long hours playing the mgs brand and msg4 is by far the best experience i have ever had in a game, msg5 i will wet my pants and buy a 50 inch lcd and a ps3 tomorrow and experience utter filth from my partner but deep down know it was the only thing i could do...... sorry xbox fans but ps3 rocks as much as the xbox !!!!!!!! peace out and quest for glory fellers i salut you !! caio

  • ali-009

    Posted May 31, 2009 12:42 am PT

    it is just a rumor,mgs was always and will be an exclusive for playstation systems,why don't microsoft announce gears of war 3,or something,and how would an xbox fan know anything about the mgs story,he will just start the game and not knowing anything of what is happening,and will mgs work on xbox360,as it is in ps3,i don't think so,may be they will remove some parts of the game,xbox owners just get over it.

  • pakhair

    Posted May 30, 2009 5:57 am PT


    Surprise Us Kojima

  • FartMonkey65

    Posted May 29, 2009 7:00 pm PT

    I love the MGS games for the PS1 and PS2. I own a 360, so I am seriously hoping that MGS4 comes out on the 360.

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