What’s a Phantom Cigar?

Leading up toMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain‘s full-blown E3 showing next week, designer Hideo Kojima has shared about a minute and a half of new footage.

It’s mostly just Big Boss running around in a cardboard box — y’know, the usual — but that’ll do. I got a kick out of the ending in which, after popping out of the box for a holdup, he runs away.

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This clip was part of a longer JapaneseKojima Station presentation. Be sure to check back later for the English-language version.

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Promotional art for Warframe`s Duviri Paradox, which shows Dominus Thrax and the cast of the expansion.

Kojima also showed a poster (viaKotaku) that compared the map sizes of the variousMetal Gear Solidgames, and let’s just sayThe Phantom Painis way, way bigger:

That whole brown area all of the colored splotches are on? That’sPhantom Pain‘s map.

Naoe, Sorin, and Jinchiro looking serious

Sekiro

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GTA V

State of Decay

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Oraxia, a spider-inspired Warframe with multiple legs. Webs appear on the background.