"Metal Gear" director Hideo Kojima will reveal the next edition of "Metal Gear Online" at a games event in December, according to a piece at Kotaku.
Little is known of the multiplayer-focused game, nor whether it will be sold standalone or come packaged with "Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain," but Kojima is expected to reveal early details of the project at "The Video Game Awards 2014."
Geoff Keighley, the gaming personality who is producing this new game awards show, revealed on Twitter that Kojima will provide a "world premier" of the new game. It's not clear whether this will come in the form of a gameplay demo or a trailer, though games award shows tend to opt for the latter. See the tweet below:
Next Friday night I'm honored @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN will join us at @thegameawards to world premiere Metal Gear Online. pic.twitter.com/rT6sLDfdxb
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) November 27, 2014
The first incarnation of "Metal Gear Online" was released in 2008, bundled with the PlayStation 3 exclusive "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots." More than one million players registered for the game, though by 2012, publisher Konami decided to shut down its servers.
"Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain" is expected to ship in 2015. The game's prologue, "Ground Zeroes," shipped on just about every console this year and divided critics and players alike.
"The Video Game Awards 2014" will be held on Friday, December 5 in Las Vegas...which is the night before Sony's PlayStation Experience community event. The show will be streamed on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and PC.
