Kojima Announces ’Metal Gear Solid: Rising’ At E3 2009 HQ

June 1, 2009 - Kojima took the stage at Microsoft’s press conference and dropped a major announcement: Remember all those teasers we saw over the past month? It wasn’t the new PSP game. It was, in fact, a completely new series in the Metal Gear franchise. Titled Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the game appears to mainly focus on the character Raiden, as there were no shots of Solid Snake at all in the extremely vague announcement teaser shown. While this news comes at the Microsoft presser, no announcements of exclusivity were revealed, so for now, expect this to be multiplatform, or a timed-exclusive at the very least. UPDATE: Looks like there might be confirmation that Rising is coming to the PlayStation 3 and PC. Konami’s list of games on Games Press now shows the title coming to those platforms.