^ There's going to be a reveal of Rising at Spike's Video Game Awards. I think the game was temporarily delayed while Kojima Productions finalized its FOX Engine (which is next gen-ready) much like FFXIII had little progress while the White/Crystal Tools Engine was being finalized. It was finished a few weeks ago, so I assume it's full steam ahead and we can expect a release sooner rather than later.

I think MGS5 will probably be the Vita title Kojima talked about at Sony's reveal of the system. The concept is a full PS3-quality title which you can play at home, auto-saving on the cloud, and then leave your house and keep playing it on the go. There's been a lot building up to it - he said the MGS HD collection allowing you to transfer Peace Walker saves to play on PSP and eventually MGS2 and 3 on Vita were phases 1 and 2 . He also said Peace Walker was a template for this future project.

So I hope you all liked co-op Metal Gear, because I think this will essentially a Peace Walker 2 - a hub of story missions and mini-challenges in which you can connect and form parties with friends to tackle them co-operatively or go head to head in multiplayer.

What would really take this to the next level, is if KP integrated the third iteration of Metal Gear Online. I lost so many hours in the PS3 version, and booting it up a few months ago, I still feel it was a fantastic multiplayer experience. Some of the social events were utterly brilliant, like weekly tournaments were you can form a team with 5 other friends and take on team after team in special matches for increased rewards. Since Vita is supposed to be a strongly networked device, it would be awesome to connect and take on people playing on both Vita and PS3 much like Wipeout will do. Since both Rising and the FOX Engine are multiplatform, I would expect this to also release on Xbox 360. Peace Walker had PSP connectivity, but that didn't stop it from showing up on the collection.

As far as Kojima's involvement, I do believe it a tad sad that such a creative mind is chained to one property after expressing interest in moving on. But the MGS games keep astonishing me and I can't say that about any other series. Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if his protege Murata, who was supposed to direct 3 and 4, has been doing it anyway, with just Kojima's name attached and Kojima helping out along the way (although they did say Hideo Kojima like 9 times in MGS4's opening...). I'll be interested in seeing what Project Ogre is.