Could a Kojima Productions preview of the new Fox Engine provide us with our first glimpse of the next numbered Metal Gear title?
Speaking with the PlayStation Blog about 25 years of metal Gear, Kojima Productions boss Hideo Kojima revealed that his studio would be showing off their new Fox Engine on August 30th in Japan. While Kojima didn't say specifically that his team would be revealing or announcing anything new about Metal Gear Solid 5, the Snatcher and Zone of Enderscreator did say that his team aimed to test their new engine by building a game which which to refine their tools.
Speaking with the PlayStation Blog about 25 years of metal Gear, Kojima Productions boss Hideo Kojima revealed that his studio would be showing off their new Fox Engine on August 30th in Japan. While Kojima didn't say specifically that his team would be revealing or announcing anything new about Metal Gear Solid 5, the Snatcher and Zone of Enderscreator did say that his team aimed to test their new engine by building a game which which to refine their tools.
You decide if he was hinting at some Metal Gear reveals coming our way at the end of next month:
The Fox Engine is nearly finished, but the only way to be sure it works is to create a game at the same time and improve the engine with our tools as we go along. Originally we were going to do this for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, but a lot happened along the way and instead it is being made with the engine they have at Platinum Games.Production studios in Japan are nearly extinct, a fact that we have recognized for nearly 10 years, and although the Fox Engine is not finished we are ready to show what it can do… on August 30th in Japan to be more specific.It's been four years since MGS 4 was released for the PS3 after being announced back in 2005. It was just last year that Kojima began showing off the current, heavily-detailed new engine which he and his team were using to build their next game.
Sources: Playstation Blog via Giantbomb