What is this, “tease your new game announcement” week? Both Irrational Games and id Software are making new announcements later today, and now Hideo Kojima has also tweeted that a “big announcement” is planned for the weekend. And of course, he made the tease in his typically mystifying Kojima way.
“Typhoon 4. It looks like it won’t have an effect on the weekend. Thank goodness! However, my health is bad. Prior to TGS, we’ll have a big announcement (?) on Saturday or Sunday, so I must recover,” the tweet reads (via Andriasang). However, before your imagination runs wild, you might want to temper your expectations at least a little bit. A follow up tweet from Kojima then clarified, “[Zone of the Enders 3] and so forth — it’s not that big an announcement. However, I think you will be happy.”
So it’s not going to be ZOE3, but the “and so forth” raises a few questions — by “so forth,” does that also mean we shouldn’t expect Kojima to reveal any other new game project he’s hinted about recently, including his supposedly “taboo” title? Then again, if this announcement has anything to do with what’s coming at Tokyo Game Show, as Kojima’s first tweet seems to suggest, then there was also that recent rumor that he’d reveal a “massive PS3 exclusive that will own the show.” However, the thought of such a huge game (if it even does indeed exist) being announced over an otherwise meaningless weekend instead of being saved for TGS seems unlikely.
