During Spike’s VGAs there was a MYSTERIOUS trailer played for a new game called Phantom Pain, by a brand new and unheard of Moby Dick Studio. Well a few intrepid online sleuths have put the puzzle together and the evidence leads to it being the newest Metal Gear Solid game. Lets take a look at the trailer.
Pretty spooky. When I first watched it I pegged it for another horror shooter like F.E.A.R, but while doing some research I found some interesting clues. Someone pointed out online that the WhoIs lookup for the brand new and unknown Swedish game studio has its domain registered by a French woman living in Gibraltar. If you take a look at the WhoIs list you can see most of the registration is in French.
Another piece of the puzzle is that during the VGAs, Forbes reported that “Phantom Pain” isn’t even the right title and it is meant as a misdirection, and flat out say it is Kojima’s game. The CEO of Moby Dick Studio is named Joakim Mogren, if you pull a D’avinvi Code on that name, the first name spells out “Kojima”.
The internet is pretty much settled on this being Metal Gear Solid 5, and not Ground Zeroes, but a shot from the Ground Zeroes promotional images is an almost exact facial match.
But the real smoking gun is this image below. If you look at the Phantom Pain banner VERY closely you can see small faint letters and when you fill them out in MS-Paint you get this.
