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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain confirmed for PC release

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Konami’s upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and its already-released prologue, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, are both due for a PC release via Steam, Konami confirms. The news came first from a post on the publisher’s UK website, and it was later re-confirmed by series creator Hideo Kojima in a Gamescom 2014 interview that streamed on Twitch.

Related: Ground Zeroes serves up a lean take on the Metal Gear series

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There’s no word on release specifics just yet, beyond the fact that Ground Zeroes will be arriving first. The Phantom Pain prologue came to PlayStation and Xbox consoles in March 2014 as a download-only proposition. It’s not a lengthy game, but it offers up a taste of what the series’ newly retuned gameplay feels like in Kojima Productions’ new Fox Engine. Phantom Pain is expected to arrive on consoles in early 2015.

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