While Hideo Kojima is a recruitable and rather highly sort after character in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, modders are allowing players to stick it to Konami by letting owners of the PC version of the game play as Kojima himself. Is it another clever nod to P.T. aka Silent Hills which Kojima was supposed to be a part of prior to its cancellation?

Japanese toy manufacturer Sentinel has unveiled its Metal Gear Sahelanthropus figure (thanks Forbes). Could there yet be more to discover?

During an interview with Game on Daily, Graham Day, Konami’s Senior UK Community Manager, discussed the company’s plans on the Metal Gear series and AAA game development as they movie forward. “Isn’t that kind of daunting on the back of his departure?”

The Metal Gear Sahelanthropus figure will be sold in Japan for ¥36,100, or $299.81 (€268.55 for Europeans).

Konami’s been in the news frequently of late, mostly in a negative light.

Earlier this month, however, a report by French website Gameblog claimed that the new Metal Gear is not “actually being prepared at any level whatsoever”, and suggested that PES is the only AAA franchise now in development at Konami.

Both have stated that Konami are committed to core console gaming.

Please, Konami. Give us something solid to chew on soon.

When asked later about Konami weaning itself off of console gaming and focusing on the mobile market, Day replied, “Don’t believe everything you read in the press”, and claimed that things had “been taken out of context”, insisting that “People should believe in Konami”, while reaffirming that console gaming wasn’t going anywhere. And that is there for a reason. “The future has a long, long way”.