Platinum Video games has teased a celebratory occasion for the tenth anniversary of Steel Gear Rising: Revengeance, the superb hack-and-slash journey that has gone on to have a second life because the supply of numerous memes. The sport had initially been in growth at Konami’s Kojima Productions as Steel Gear Rising earlier than being handed over to the motion recreation specialists, who got here up with the fairly good central mechanic of ripping out your enemies’ spines to heal oneself, and the remainder is high-octane historical past.
The sport did get some (superb) DLC however, regardless of the constructive reception and respectable gross sales, it has been silence ever since. Given the next Konami-Kojima fallout and the Steel Gear sequence being seemingly placed on ice, a sequel has by no means felt much less doubtless. And but, now Platinum is asserting a celebratory stream for the sport’s tenth anniversary, and a few celebratory paintings.
／📢METAL GEAR RISING REVENGEANCE tenth Anniversary イベント予告👀＼2023年2月21日に『メタルギア ライジング リベンジェンス』は発売から10周年を迎えます🎊当日には10周年記念としてプラチナゲームズ公式Twitterで #MGR のアニバーサリーアートをお披露目しますのでお見逃しなく🔥 pic.twitter.com/d7fgPrwvHhFebruary 1, 2023
The tweet is a “tenth Anniversary Occasion Discover” and reads (by way of machine translation):
“On February 21, 2023, Steel Gear Rising Revengeance will have fun its tenth anniversary since its launch. On the day of the occasion, we are going to unveil the #MGR anniversary artwork on PlatinumGames’ official Twitter to commemorate the tenth anniversary, so do not miss it.”
Fairly innocuous stuff however it has all followers, myself included, huffing beneficiant quantities of copium whereas fantasising about filleting large mechs with a katana. Once more.
None of that is helped by the truth that principal character Raiden’s voice actor, Quinton Flynn, not too long ago teased upcoming Steel Gear information: “Keep tuned for issues to be introduced within the upcoming weeks!” Although funnily sufficient, that appears to have been the actor plugging his look on a podcast and an autograph stream to coincide with the anniversary (opens in new tab). Flynn retains on tweeting and re-tweeting in regards to the recreation’s anniversary although, so hope shouldn’t be extinguished but.
Each Hideo Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa have thus far saved their very own counsel, although it is extraordinarily unlikely that they might be concerned in any future Steel Gear venture anyway. Whereas a MGR: Revengeance 2 announcement does appear unlikely, Steel Gear followers might be hoping that this 12 months Konami exhibits some indicators of life: it is lengthy been rumoured that the writer is planning remasters of a number of the Steel Gear Stable titles and, with completely nothing for the reason that post-Kojima Steel Gear Survive in 2018, it has been approach too lengthy for one of many nice videogame sequence. Oh nicely, no less than we are able to have fun when it was once good with some artwork.
