Konami apologizes for announcing nuclear disarmament (in Metal Gear Solid V) ~ USA Latest Games

The cut scene that PC Metal Gear Solid V players mistakenly saw over the weekend.

For over two years now, dedicated Metal Gear Solid V (MGSV) players have been trying in vain to remove every nuclear weapon created by players on the game's online servers as part of an official, Konami-supported metagame. Both unofficial trackers and occasional, official updates from Konami show how difficult that effort has been, though, with hundreds or thousands of virtual weapons still sticking around into 2018 (depending on the platform and region).

So it came as no small surprise for PC MGSV players when they logged in to their Forward Operating Bases on Friday to see a cutscene announcing "the last nuke's been decommissioned. It's over, Boss. I thought this day would never come."

The contents of the cutscene itself has been well-known since hackers discovered it lurking in the game's code back in 2015. But the sudden, "official" unlocking on the PC servers was quite unexpected, especially since the last official count showed a significant 7,500 nukes still on the PC servers as of January 25 (though that number had been plummeting for weeks at the time).

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