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

By Adam Rosenberg August 14, 2014

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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

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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