Metal Gear Solid Online to be shown next week

Hideo Kojima is hosting a Metal Gear party next Tuesday! At the Ritz Carlton in Tokyo, the big 20th anniversary of the franchise gets its very own celebration, complete with a lot of interesting surprises, detailed below.

• An in-game demonstration of MGS4: Guns of the Patriots played by Kojima himself.

• First look at some kind of online multiplayer for the Metal Gear Solid series ... more on that after the list.

• New "series content", possibly re-releases or spin-offs like VR Missions.

• Official statement regarding Metal Gear: Portable Ops +.

We're confused about the online multiplayer. Everywhere we look regarding this rumor, it's never clear if Kojima means to imply that Metal Gear Solid 4 will have online multiplayer support or if there will be a different game specially designed to support that. We'd like to take on the role of trainees for Foxhound and fight other people, so if it's a separate game, we're cool with that.