Kojima website updated with Raiden image?

CVG: Hideo Kojima is nothing but a dirty tease. And we love it.

Fake or real?

Update: This Twitter pic has just come to our attention (thanks chriskernagham) and we've had a look at the countdown but can find no image of said Raiden. He either popped up for a limited time only or someone's been playing with Photoshop. Update out.

[I LOL AT U]

PS3 exclusive of course

[Gue1]

Do you think that's possible? I mean, Konami's desperate to release MGS4 on X360 but it is Kojima who doesn't lets them do it. Like Itagaki with Ninja Gaiden 2 on PS3...

Now another iteration exclusive for the PS3? Can Kojima still persist for it to stay exclusive again?

E3 can't come any sooner! I just hope that whatever game's this it'll be PS3 exclusive. Not because of fanboyims but because of potential. Blu-ray and Kojima make a good couple.

[DoucheVader]

Its...

http://playstationlifestyle...

[green]

Hmmmm.....Graphics said a month ago that Kojima was releasing a new Metal Gear game (not MGS) callled metal Gear Raiden,exclusive to the (insert console of choice) and it will be unveiled at E3.All this before this teaser site went up.Seems his sister really works for Kojima productions afterall.

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

Kijoma's next game is guaranteed to be announced for the PS3. Can't say the same for the 360.

[lloyd_wonder]

I recall that also. I also read about Raiden DLC for the one year anniversary of MGS4 from *credible* sites. Rumors of course...

[Tapewurm]

http://www.konami.jp/kojima...

If you watch it long enough there is a "5" or "S" that flashes in and out in the background every few lighting/thunder crashes. Haven't seen Raiden image pop in yet.

[BLuKhaos]

It might not even be a new metal gear.c'mon when has Kojima ever been straight with us when he announces his new games?

@Microsoft Xbox 360;Exactly if a game made purely for his fans sold 5 million, 1/4 of the PS3's user base, in six months;Why would Kojima ever make a game exclusively for the other console?Kojima doesn't really care for money, he cares about making games for his fans.

[jadenkorri]

which means MGS5 obviously, i could be wrong, but either way....Zone of the Enders 3 announcement would be epic personally...

[xwabbit]

10 hours left 4 the announcement ?

[Tito Jackson]

after the 10 hours, there is no annoucement, but only more clues?
wow. that would tick me off. Full Monty please.

[II Necroplasm II]

I think it's just a countdown to other countdowns or more clues.

Isn't there suppose to be 5 stages of weather in the flash?

[SL1M DADDY]

*takes off clothes*

Did somebody say Full Monty? Whoo-hoo!

[Tito Jackson]

Whoo! *holds up a twenty and some fives* Party over here big boy, lol.

@necro: No. But there are 5 "catergories" of tornado. 1-5/small-big. didn't someone list a kojima game under a assumed name that had the word Tornado, in the title? although i think its a strange coincidence, this is prolly what everyone is saying it: MGS5. But i hope it isnt. New IP would be nice.

[solidt12]

it has to be MGS5. I am getting excited man. MGS FTW.

[SL1M DADDY]

*jumps on Tito's lap*

[Tito Jackson]

I was listening to some Techno mixes, when I read your last comment.
LAPDANCES FTW.

[Torch]

LOL...I can rest-assured that on a rough day such as today, I can always rely on you guys and the others here for a good chuckle and to help brighten the somber mood.

Cheers and bubbles galore!

[The Lazy One]

http://shogungamer.com/news...

if u look towards the bottom of that page, theres an image that was released with the clouds. A lot of people think the teaser is going to go through each of the stages on that picture before the announcement is made where the ! is. It's either in the first or second pictures right now.

Who knows, they could also have coded all the other countdown clocks just to mislead people. It's not a hard thing to code, and it would be worth it to surprise people.

[s8anicslayer]

Bieng that MGS was so long and so many cut-scenes and it also took a long time for Kojima to release MGS4 this has to be MGS5 and only on PS3 as well

[I did not murder him]

He said it was 360 exclusive and didn't know why Komami made it exclusive for the 360. Graphics hates the 360 and is a PS3 fanboy by the way. It's called Metal Gear Rising and will have a Raiden story ark.

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

http://www.n4g.com/gaming/N...

And this is fake.

[madmonkey0]

just taken this from the sites source code. <meta name="keywords" content="Hideo Kojima, MGS,METAL GEAR, NEXT, game, konami, kojima game, KJP, Kojima Production ">
MGS5 proof

[Buttons]

Yep, you're right. Before reading your comment I looked it up as well.

[vasilisk]

As fake as it gets...

[christian hour]

yeah whoever photoshopped this forgot to clip out his arms that exit the image and go onto the black border. How this even fooled anyone is beyond me. Can't people just wait the extra 12 hours or so thats left on the countdown?

[SmittyJ31]

This is as fake as it gets. Didn't notice the arms until you said something, but you can tell it's fake even without that. When has Kojima ever been this straight forward with any game....ever? So why would he put Raiden on the site to make it obvious?

[DeforMAKulizer]

If you read the article... It says its a photoshop!
FAKE!

[Nineball2112]

NO, if you read the article it says that they couldn't find the image, so they WONDER if it's a photoshop. It doesn't say for sure that it is.

Although, it probably is.

[XPC HARDonE]

thats master chief

[peeps]

photoshop tbh. the current countdown ends at 2am GTM tomorrow so thats when we'll see some sort of update. no wonder they couldn't find it when they had a look at the site haha

anyone could do this lol http://i42.tinypic.com/2dw6...

[christian hour]

at least you remembered not to let yr images overlap onto the black border :P This is a more convincing image :P haha.

[peeps]

it's not mine. from Bad Joystick lol but the point is that it really wouldn't be that hard to make this. just get a render and make it a bit transparent lol

[Fishy Fingers]

If it's real more people should be commenting on it soon enough.

But to be fair, I could have come up with that in 10 minutes on photoshop. Seems unlikely if it simply flashed up they'd have managed to get a screen grab and if it was displayed for an extended period then like I said, someone else should have also noticed it.

12 hours to go, let's see what happens then. (image change, new countdown is my guess)

[lloyd_wonder]

What happened to the old countdown? The one that was shown to end prior to e3?

[christian hour]

What old countdown? It was always scheduled to end tonight at 2 am. I don't know where everyones been getting the idea that it was going to end just before e3?. The timer when the site was first posted on N4G was at about 90 something hours... which is only 4 days really. What gave the impression to people it would somehow last until e3?

@ fishy fingers
Or what would be even worse of kojima to do would just have the countdown end... and then a date appear... haha. That would be so annoying, why not have just had a date on the site to begin with? :P

But yeah we'll probably get a TINY teaser of information and then we'll have to wait until e3 I guess when they'll make the big announcement. I dunno if I realy want another MGS though...

[lloyd_wonder]

Some actually thought the countdown timer ended on Jun 1st. Didn't actually check myself. Thanks for clearing it up.

http://kotaku.com/5258935/k...

[christian hour]

No problemo lloyd! I guess that explains the confusion (I didn't click the link I just saw Kotaku and sighed :P). If Kojima was going to make a game for the 360, I'd prefer it wasn't a MGS... I'm sure he's got plenty of original ideas he could be going with, but it's looking like it's going to be an announcement for MGS5 either way... I was happy with mgs4 been the end of them all.

[Theonik]

@lloyd_wonder: I think it's because people examined the site source code and found that there will be 5 countdowns last one ending June 1st also it appears there are five stages in the storm.

[Ninver]

MGS5:Raiden Chronicles ps3 exclusive confirmed.

[xdye017]

Why is are you saying its PS3 exclusive? Its either 360 exclusive or mulitplat. The countdown timers end at 1st June aka MS conference.

[xlx-russ_92]

big lol

[N4PS3G]

eeehh relax..no one knows

[dktxx2]

Common sense tells you it won't be a 360 exclusive. Kojima's not going to abandon the system where all his fans are and have been for the past generations. Multiplatform is easily possible, but it is almost 100% guaranteed it will be on the ps3.

[lloyd_wonder]

Countdown ends in 12 hours actually. Kojima is messing with us.

http://www.konami.jp/kojima...

[gintoki777]

hey smart one did you know the timer ends tonight plus if it did end on June 1st that would be June1st in the U.S. and June 2nd in japan

my opinion of this is fake but the only time i could see something like this happening was if the numbers went past a prominent date in raidens life(virtual life lol) or raidens codec number maybe idk
thats just my opinion

[DevilNinja420]

Written in large, bold font and periodically flashing onto the stormy landscape of Kojima Productions' "Next" teaser site before slowly fading out, the number 5 has now appeared alongside a countdown timer that's presumably for the Metal Gear Solid developer's next announcement.

The teaser site, which emerged last week as expected, is now clearly suggesting that Kojima's next project will be Metal Gear Solid 5. As we previously reported, the site's source code also lists "MGS" and "Metal Gear" as keywords for the webpage.

Additionally, the splash page's new countdown timer is currently set with approximately 84 hours left as we go to press. To save you doing the maths, this means it will run out at 2:00am BST this coming Friday. Why so early? Because 2 o'clock in the morning for us is 10 o'clock in the morning for Japan.

So, is it going to be ? In short, yes, although the hint lacks the subtlety that we've come to expect from Kojima and his team, so perhaps it's just a red herring.

[N4PS3G]

i think its fake and a bad one , his hand go over the image to the black border

[Staircase]

Good catch. Since the whole page is black, the picture should end at the border. I'm leaning at fake for this one.

And the fact that they just randomly found it on someones twitter seems insane.

Has anyone seen this image before? If it's just a recycled old image, its probably fake.

[Staircase]

Actually, i just checked the actual SWF, and the border isn't part of it. So this pretty much confirms it is fake.

[theEnemy]

Its still gonna be MGS5.

Btw, what's the exact date when the timer goes off ?

[christian hour]

tonight at 2am gmt

[Staircase]

9PM EST

[theEnemy]

aight thanks.

[butterfinger]

to see how badly N4G melts down after Kojima's new game is announced for the 360. Why on Earth do some of you think he has some sort of obligation to exclusively make games for the PS3? He may prefer Sony's consoles, but he still makes games for a third party publisher and can always be bought.

[Staircase]

It's true. And i honestly wouldn't care if he did. I just want a new IP from him. He has too much creative talent to be using all of it on one universe. (MG)

[Pennywise]

Hey, he might announce it for the 360... but Kojima strikes me as a man with integrity. I dont see why he would want to water down his work.

I just want a new Kojima game, but I wouldnt be surprised if it was a PS3 exclusive. I wouldnt be hurt if it was multi.

[butterfinger]

agree that a new ip would be great from Kojima. Pennywise, I see where you are coming from lol, but how will you feel if his new game is a 360 exclusive as it has been rumored? I personally think it would be a bad move to make a metal gear game exclusive to the 360 as most of the series' history is with the playststion family including the ps3. It seems that konami would be alienating a huge part of their fanbase, but money talks I suppose.

[SSJSubgeta]

"I honestly can't wait...to see how badly N4G melts down after Kojima's new game is announced for the 360. Why on Earth do some of you think he has some sort of obligation to exclusively make games for the PS3?"

It's not obligation, its perfection, he(Kojima) said it himself. He is a perfectionist and likes to be an achiever of new things. He mentioned in a DVD I think it was on MGS3, MGSaga VOL.2 and MGS4 Special Edition Extra Feature Disc. He always wants to be first in doing something on new platforms. Since the PS3 was announced he decided to go ahead and create MGS4. Also to back up the perfectionist point, He was still disappointed at how MGS4 turned out. Not because of the sales, but because he could of/wanted to do more. Which I completely understand his point of view.

"He may prefer Sony's consoles, but he still makes games for a third party publisher and can always be bought."

Konami gave Kojima his own studio and the team he has been working with all this time. Then Kojima was brought into the Board of Directors. So in regards to making that decision Kojima has a big say in it. Honestly Konami wouldn't be as big as it is now with out Kojima and they know it(Hence why they gave him his own studio and became part of the BOD.). Think about it for a minute, What if Kojima was not with Konami?

As for your "can always be bought." comment, that's true company's can be bought or swayed. But then the whole market would be saturated with mediocre games. Is that what you like?

[Pennywise]

Close to 5 million reasons come to mind of why it wouldnt be exclusive to the 360. Plus, he already has a perfectly fine engine running for the PS3. It just makes no sense...

If it does, it would suck. He is a genius and even though I love him, I wont be just another hypocrite on this site. I will have to miss out on his next game.

[butterfinger]

Whoa, easy boy! lol. I wasn't necessarily referring to Konami literally being bought, but more so that they have a price and so does Kojima in which they will make a game for any console. The way you defend Kojima's ties to Sony and the PS3 are just sad, blind drivel. Kojima can achieve many things on the 360, the ONLY advantage that the PS3 gives him is disc space which never seemed to bother him before. As for you trying to make it seem like I want all companies to be bought so we can have mediocre games- I don't even know what you are talking about. Considering that Sony's best games are all first/second party besides MGS4, maybe it would be a good idea if most of the devs were bought by the big boys. Kojima has never been opposed to the idea of working with the 360, and I'm sure he has been pushed towards it while being around other devs such as CliffyB over at EPIC. Kojima is fascinated with Western culture, and the 360 is the most Western console. What will be your response when Kojima unveils an XBOX360 exclusive? If you still believe after all of the BS that has happened this gen, that ANY third party pub/dev will remain exclusive to one console, especially during a recession, then you are as blind as they come.

[SSJSubgeta]

“The way you defend Kojima's ties to Sony and the PS3 are just sad, blind drivel.”
I was making a point at the fact that if Konami where to embark on other ventures Kojima would have a say so in the matter, regardless of what the issue is. I could care less if the Metal Gear Franchise goes to another platform or dies off. What I posted before regarding Kojima status at Konami is indeed factual information.

“Kojima can achieve many things on the 360, the ONLY advantage that the PS3 gives him is disc space which never seemed to bother him before.”
Any game can be ported to any platform given the time, commitment and funding. Regardless of the track record any studio has with any affiliation to a preferred platform.

“As for you trying to make it seem like I want all companies to be bought so we can have mediocre games- I don't even know what you are talking about.”
I never made it seem nor I implied, I asked. Look back and re-read my comment.

“What will be your response when Kojima unveils an XBOX360 exclusive?”
I will look forward to it regardless of what platform it is on.

“If you still believe after all of the BS that has happened this gen, that ANY third party pub/dev will remain exclusive to one console, especially during a recession, then you are as blind as they come.”
I can tell you from experience on the projects that I have worked/currently working on, some things stay on certain platforms due to mutual or business reasons. I can tell you personally if my company gave me the green light on my IP I would make it multi-plat, I would love for anyone and everyone to enjoy my IP and of course sell many copy's as much as possible. But sometimes things just don’t work that way.

Now what’s up with the name calling? I don’t know what type of person you are but on a serious note, relax.

[butterfinger]

First of all, SSJ, can you type a reply without quoting everything I said? It's really annoying reading the same thing over again when I can tell what you are responding to. Secondly, if you felt that I have called you a name, then you must be extremely sensitive. Do you consider "boy" name calling? lmao. What I stated is that you are being blind to what the reality of the situation with Kojima is, and you continue to prove that to be true. I never said that Kojima had no say in what Konami does, nor did I disagree that he has made Konami what it is today. What I DID give you were reasons that Kojima himself would want to work on the XBOX360 which you just seemed to ignore. You tried to act as if Kojima prefers working on the PS3 because it is some sort of "superior" system when you mentioned that he was a perfectionist wanting to work on "new" platforms. Don't you realize that EVERY person on this site has read the articles about Kojima being a perfectionist and we ALL know he was disappointed with MGS4? What makes you think he can't attempt to achieve perfection on the XBOX360? That is the real question which you have simply sidestepped in a way that makes you look like you just have a special love for the PS3. You have given absolutely no real reason as to why Kojima would not make an XBOX360 exclusive game, and the best argument against that was made by Pennywise up to now (alienating 5 million fans). From our back and forth, I have learned that you type a massive amount of nothing. We are still at square one with you failing to provide any insight as to why Kojima would prefer working on the PS3. Can't you at least just say it's because he is Japanese or something?

[ultimolu]

It's MGS5.

[marcindpol]

i think that unfortunately ps3 is going to lose another exclusive title called "the next Kojima Production game":(

i am ps3 fanboy and i am very sad

[kewlkat007]

.....

[Grey Fox 92]

So fake...

[kesvalk]

i said one time, i will say again, is boktai...

[LONEWOLF231]

Boktai: The Storm is in your hand.

[EvilCackle]

It says something about the considerable prestige Kojima Productions has built up if people get excited about a picture of Raiden, perhaps the worst character in the MGS universe, STANDING IN A FIELD.

[TheBand1t]

This looks shopped.

[OmegaSlayer]

People found that the countdown is made of 5 mini-countdowns, but none said if all the countdowns are of the same length.

[peeps]

yeh but it says when 1 counter ends and the next one starts...

[Theonik]

Checked the site some minutes ago it appears as the storm progressed and became more severe as according to the plan also the number 5 was changed to 3 and there are 120 hours left now.

[njmzhang]

New Metal Gear game for PS3 or PSP?
http://www.7andy.jp/magazin...
"メタルギア新作" - new Metal Gear game

[Pennywise]

Oh the tears will be bitter sweet.

[Henry Cain]

I love MGS when playing with Snake, but playing with Raiden was not that fun. I mean I enjoyed MGS2 Sons of Liberty but I playing with Snake.

[Ninjamonkey]

Oh c'mon...

Any idiot could just put a picture of raiden over the picture using photoshop and just make the layer with raiden very transparent... It takes less that a minuite...

[Dead_Cell]

Kojima has never been so blatent when giving teasers before,I doubt he would start with this.

[lordv8der]

if this was genuine surley the raiden ghost whould cut off at the black border, this just seem sto carry over, considering the care and attention that has been put into this flash (clouds tht look like snake etc) surley they would have made it look a bit proffesional.

[blacksniper]

Well, so much for ZOE3. I never get what I want.

[madkrazygames]

damn if this indeed true, it's not coming to the 360.

[Thoreau]

how about a snatcher remake?

[ThatArtGuy]

How about more transcendentalism?

[HeadShot]

I had to do a project on transcendentalism as well -______-

[Thoreau]

buy a ps3

[debuchan]

letter E? and 3 so SE3?

[HeadShot]

That's what I said! I didn't know if everyone else was seeing it too or if i was just going crazy.

[gumgum99]

Hey Guys!

I think there's a hidden message in the countdown flashes.

I've been looking at the flases for the past five minutes and I came up with this:

"eE53"

It goes in sequence, so you'll have to watch the site to see what I mean. every "letter" and "number" occurs every 30 seconds or so.

[gumgum99]

does anyone see what I mean?

its not hard to spot if you pay attention to the countdown "flashes"

[HeadShot]

Exactly like the guy above you posted.

[Hobadoon]

and numbers added to kojima's site now. Like a 3 and an e.

I'm still lost.

[DoucheVader]

Its...

http://playstationlifestyle...

[ultimatek1]

Is Metal GEar solid: Existance
http://img30.imageshack.us/...

[SageFrancis]

MGS4: SPECIAL EDITION @ E3

thats what it is.

[DevilNinja420]

The letters in the countdown are 5 E e backwards E
http://www.psfocus.nl/_imag...

Flipping the letters
Backwards E = M
e = g
5 = S
E = E
http://i273.photobucket.com...

MGSE

METAL GEAR SOLID EXISTENCE

http://www.thatvideogameblo...
http://www.thatvideogameblo...

FIX images plz!

[peeps]

"Flipping the letters
Backwards E = M "

haha really i would have though a 'backwards E' was 3 not M haha

and why would you flip some but not others?

[Gamer luv]

My screen actualy flashed

E
3
5

So something at E3 about maybe a 5th Metal Gear?
Didnt Kojima say the 4th metal gear was the last??

I think what some people are saying about DLC for number 4 is more probable, like a near story with another charecter...
Something like the DLC for GTA only for MG

[Minted]

It flashes a E then a 3 then an 5, so probs an announcement for a 5th installment at e3....