In the West, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was released on the Xbox 360. In Japan, it wasn't. Here's why.

This is Ludvig Forssell. He might look more familiar when he's covered with bandages and pretending to be a Swedish game designer named Joakim Mogren.

Mysterious Metal Gear game The Phantom Pain was the star of last week's Spike VGAs. The Twitter account of its "Head CEO" Joakim N. Mogren, complete with wonderfully photoshopped Kojima head, is the star of your Monday.

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima loves Twitter. He's always tweeting up a storm. He loves Twitter so much that his studio now has its own Twitter app, called Metal Gear TW.

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a Kojima Productions and Platium Games joint, is out in February 2013. It might not be exactly the kind of Metal Gear game you're after, but it might be exactly the kind of Metal Gear trailer you're after.

Late last week, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima revealed a new Zone of the Enders project. Fans of the sci-fi series have been waiting for Kojima to start work on a new Z.O.E. Thing is, he won't be doing much much work on it.