The thing about Naked Snake is: he's right there when you least expect it. He's a shadow in a treeline. A rustling in a locker.
A thick forearm crushing your windpipe. He's also, apparently, an unexpected surprise on Sony's PlayStation network—the console maker seems to have accidentally uploaded a release date trailer (spotted by users on ResetEra) for the upcoming release of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater right there on its digital storefront, with zero fanfare.
That's the spiffy UE5 remake of Metal Gear Solid 3, if you've lost track, and it looks like it's set to come out August 28, 2025, barring a delay.
The trailer only shows the PS5 logo, but I'd be shocked if that didn't extend to us over here on PC too. That's—hang on, let me do some maths—some time after its originally suggested release window of 2024, and a full year after I got to try out the game's Virtuous Mission section for myself at a hands-on demo last year, but these things take time, I suppose.
The trailer looks, well, quite a lot like if someone made Metal Gear Solid 3 in 2025. We get glimpses of all sorts of iconic scenes: The Boss and Snake engaging in some CQC, Ocelot chasing our hero down a The Fugitive-style tunnel, the Shagohod flipping out, an electric colonel, the bee man.