Good news! Metal Gear Solid V is just under two weeks away, and you should be able to start your anticipated pre-load soon. The bad news is that you'll have no such luck on PC.

Get even more excited for The Phantom Pain by looking back at the incredible legacy of the franchise so far - fit with a tantilising look at one of its biggest mysteries.

Will Guillermo Del Toro ever manage to work on a game that doesn't go belly-up with the publishers? Once again, the answer to that is a very definite "maybe".

Metal Gear Solid V shouldn't be the final pairing of Hideo Kojima and Konami. At least not according to EA Games COO Peter Moore, who reckons that the drama llama between the two needs to be put away.

Huddled into a corner on top of a sloppily put-together structure in the middle of the desert, Snake takes out his technologically advanced binoculars to survey the area. As I pan the camera around my surroundings, red blips show up – concentrated in a particular direction. The rest of the land is barren, devoid of life on the smallest scale …

War. War never changes. Especially in the laundry department, where your detergents fight a never-ending battle against the crimson insurgents who soak through your threads. And that’s something that you’re going to have to get used to in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

The latest trailer for MGSV marks the end of an era, but which era is it referring to? Is it just about Snake, or is it about Kojima and Konami as well?

Planning to play Metal Gear Solid V on PC? Well you'll get to do it sooner than you thought, and on a slightly different rig than originally announced.