Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has caused a flurry of speculation regarding Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's release date.

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At The Game Awards in Las Vegas last week, Kojima took to the stage to announce the upcoming title's multiplayer portion , Metal Gear Online, which is set to be bundled in with all copies of MGS V. He did so while wearing a T-shirt that's leading many on Reddit to speculate The Phantom Pain will arrive on June 22, 2015.The T-shirt looked to bear the words "tjugoandra den sjätte", which is Swedish for "twenty-second and sixth". I you remember, Kojima teased The Phantom Pain by creating a fake Swedish development studio called Moby Dick Studios. With Kojima fairly notorious for tricking his fans and revealing things by hiding them in plain sight, it's unsurprising that this has caused so much speculation.With the game due out at some stage next year, hopefully it won't be too long before we get official news one way or the other.

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