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The Phantom Pain bizarre interview points to FOX engine, GDC reveal
The Phantom Pain is all but confirmed to use the Konami-built FOX engine. The news comes via screenshots of the game displaying the engine's logo, as shown during what some would call an interview, and others... not so much.GameTrailers' Geoff Keighley sat down to talk about the abstruse game with its alleged creator, Joakim Mogren of the alleged Moby Dick Studio. As you can see, Mogren was covered in bandages because of "an accident," but he'll apparently be healed in time for GDC (two weeks time) where he'll unveil a revelatory Phantom Pain trailer.Mogren revealed nothing else beyond that, except for some screenshots that oh so subtly displayed the big fat FOX engine logo in the corner. We'll give the man credit: when the eagle-eyed Keighley pointed out the FOX logo, Mogren's shock (cough splutter) was a thing of beauty (see after the break).In completely unrelated news, Hideo Kojima is giving a talk at this year's GDC, and it'll feature a demonstration of the FOX engine.
The Phantom Pain trailer, screens are figments of imagination
Undoubtedly the biggest surprise of the VGAs, the trailer for The Phantom Pain has been the subject of intense speculation. The debut showing for unknown Swedish developer Moby Dick Studio featured an amputee who looked a lot like Snake of Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid series. And if there's one guy in the video game industry who's always been fond of a mysterious tease, it's Hideo Kojima.Over the weekend, we rounded up the many threads of thought produced by the trailer, touching on everything from the appearance of white petals a la the ending to Metal Gear Solid 3 to movie title sequence designer Kyle Cooper, whose portfolio includes MGS 2 & 3, wearing a The Phantom Pain t-shirt. %Gallery-172987%
The Phantom Pain speculation round-up: Metal Gear?!
The biggest surprise to come from last night's Spike TV Video Game Awards was undoubtedly the announcement of The Phantom Pain, a seemingly new IP from a completely unknown Swedish development house called Moby Dick Studio. The debut trailer showed a hospital under attack from an ominously obscured figure, and ended on a macro shot of an amputee that bore a striking resemblance to Solid Snake of Metal Gear Solid fame.Wait, Solid Snake? Metal Gear?! But, how could that be possible in a new franchise from a new developer that isn't Konami or Kojima Productions? Hey actually, now that we think about it, why is a brand-new studio getting to premiere a teaser for its first-ever game at an event generally reserved for AAA titles from global publishers?Perhaps there's more to this than meets the eye. Let's take an in-depth, spoiler filled look at what evidence there is so far, and why all signs point to this being a new entry in the Metal Gear mythos.
