Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes Announced for PC

Gamescom 2014 saw some interesting revelations, from a new action RPG from BioWare (called Shadow Realms), to Ninja Theory's newest hack-n-slash (Hellblade), and of course, Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro's first Silent Hill game (Silent Hills). On Wednesday however, Konami made an announcement that will warm PC gamer hearts worldwide - both episodes of Metal Gear Solid V will be releasing on Steam.

Konami Digital Entertainment revealed the information on the UK portal of the Konami Europe site ahead of the official announcement that happened during the preview of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain at Gamescom 2014. Konami said that both episodes of Metal Gear Solid V, The Phantom Pain as well as Ground Zeroes, will both be coming to Steam for PC gamers, without specifying a release date.

Notably, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Review) was released in March for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. On the other hand, MGSV: The Phantom Pain has no specified release date on any console, except Q1 2015.

Kojima said that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be released on PC first, ahead of The Phantom Pain, however, did not specify even a tentative timeline for the PC release.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes was received warmly by critics, as well as our very own Gopal Sathe, who said the "game itself feels great to play, but looks pretty average on the older generation of consoles [..] the game could easily be given a miss by people who aren't already fans of the series or at least the genre."

In MGSV: Ground Zeroes, players control Snake, also known as Big Boss. The new Metal Gear game is set in March 1975, with the story occurring a few months after the events of Peace Walker. Big Boss at the time is working with Militaires Sans Frontieres (or MSF) to infiltrate Camp Omega in Cuba. MGSV: The Phantom Pain once again sees players taking the roll of Big Boss, and the game picks up where Ground Zeroes left off, with the destruction of MSF. Big Boss, who is in a coma, wakes up 9 years later, and forms a new mercenary group called the Diamond Dogs.