Snake returns to the battlefield in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain as Big Boss, in the midst of a sandstorm riding a white horse. It is 1984, nine years after the fighting, the destruction ...

Metal Gear's grim and competent special ops protagonist Solid Snake was only grim and quiet thanks to strict tech limitations restricting what his creator, Hideo Kojima, could do with him.

That game, of course, is Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. The company, Konami, is currently down one very famous employee in series creator Hideo Kojima. And that's to say nothing of Kojima ...