Konami Press Start Live June 2025: Everything Announced

Metal Gear Solid steadfast Konami is backmost with a bang, and to beryllium it, it hosted a livestream showcase connected June 12 called Konami Press Start Live.

The half-hour-long livestream featured crippled updates and appearances from Konami developers and producers, introducing america to the "creative minds down immoderate of Konami's astir iconic franchises," arsenic good arsenic giving america an extended look astatine Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Silent Hill f, and more. Here's what was revealed…

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Surprising nary one, Snake kicked disconnected the show. Producers Noriaki Okamura and Yuji Korekado shared an extended teaser from its upcoming Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, and reminded america that the Snake vs. Monkey minigame is connected the mode for PC and PS5 players, with a Bomberman variant for Xbox consoles. And the Secret Theater, of course, but I don’t accidental immoderate of america person forgotten astir that.

Even though brag fights should consciousness precise familiar, we tin expect AI and animation improvements during encounters. We besides learned astir the Sneaking DLC Pack, which includes costumes “unique successful appearance,” with immoderate boasting peculiar effects. You’ll besides find items, weapons, and uniforms in-game if you person it, too.

Finally, we were introduced to Fox Hunt mode. It's a wholly original, online multiplayer mode that shares a satellite with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. It’s not conscionable a reskinned Metal Gear Online, however; expect it to beryllium “its own, caller benignant of mode” based connected the series’ trademark stealth and infiltration mechanics. Expect much details soon up of its merchandise connected August 28.

Darwin’s Paradox

Darwin's Paradox. Image credit: Konami.

I don’t accidental immoderate of america were expecting to conscionable Darwin today, an octopus who is “suddenly torn from his water by a mysterious beam of light.” The inaugural crippled from ZDT Studio, Darwin’s Paradox sees mediocre Darwin aftermath up successful an concern analyzable and past sets disconnected with conscionable 1 extremity — to get backmost location to the water again.

French developers Mikael Tanguy, Gilles Aujard, and Romuald Capron introduced the game’s crippled and halfway gameplay mechanics, including a “multitude of environments, moods, challenges, and gameplay mechanics.” And portion helium definite does look cute, Darwin isn’t coasting connected his looks alone; his earthy abilities specified arsenic suction-cupped arms and ink shooting are amplified to make much “interesting gameplay mechanics and humorous touches.”

eFootball

Messi and Suarez. Image credit: Konami.

Barcelona’s iconic trio, MSN — Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr, and Luis Suarez — introduced america to the adjacent play of eFootball. They whitethorn not play connected the transportation for Barcelona unneurotic anymore, but they’re seemingly agreed successful their enthusiasm for Konami’s shot sim for sofa and online co-op.

We saw the trio backmost successful enactment successful their Catalonian hayday circa 2015, the aforesaid twelvemonth they bushed Juventus successful the Champions League Final. eFootball is free-to-play present connected PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, PC via Windows and Steam, arsenic good arsenic mobile devices.

eBaseball MLB Pro Spirit

Shohei Ohtani. Image credit: Konami.

Next up is Pro Spirit, Konami's mobile shot crippled wherever you tin play with each 30 MLB teams and their real-life line-ups. This twelvemonth Konami has partnered with immoderate of the sport’s biggest athletes, including LA Dodgers’ and National League MVP Shohei Ohtani.

That's not all, though; immoderate of MLB’s existent prima players person “chosen their ain favourite players, and you tin play them each successful the game,” too. New this year, Baltimore Orioles’ Adley Rutschman and San Diego Padres’ Jackson Merrill are joining the MLB Pro Spirit lineup.

Yi-Gi-Oh!

Charlotte Hornets guardant and erstwhile Boston Celtics hoops player, Grant Dean Williams is simply a huge Yi-Gi-Oh! fan, playing the games and watching the anime increasing up. In an undisputed “game recognizes game” moment, Williams says he’s experienced a batch of challenges, whether that’s “trying to find a caller tweak connected a caller Exodia deck, oregon trying to instrumentality down a trap-tricks deck.” He says it takes a batch of accomplishment and courageousness to physique the close platform and beryllium a skilled duellist, which is our segue into the crushed he's here: to privation each participants successful the Duellist Cups, Road to Worlds, and World Championships the precise champion of luck.

The South American satellite cupful qualifiers person already taken place, but Central American WCQ is acceptable for July 4-6, Oceania July 5-6, and North America July 11-13. European participants tin measurement up July 25-27.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game The Chronicles — a promotional abbreviated anime bid — is inactive playing monthly connected the authoritative YouTube channel, and the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection volition beryllium connected merchantability astatine 20% disconnected connected Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam until Sunday, June 15.

Suikoden I & II HD Remaster

Producer of Suikoden I & II HD Remaster, Rui Naito, and manager Tatsuya Ogushi stopped by to archer america that since the merchandise successful March, they’ve been getting large feedback from players, including those who person stepped into the bid for the precise archetypal time. Perhaps much importantly for us, however, they besides announced that the remaster — which includes some the archetypal and 2nd games successful Konami’s storied RPG bid — is present coming to Nintendo Switch 2.

For Nintendo Switch 2, the solution and framerate person been tweaked to “match the show of the console." You tin besides expect amended prime dependable and visuals, a double-speed conflict function, arsenic good arsenic a shortcut fastener for auto-battles to "elevate the gaming experience."

Suikoden Star Leap

But that's not the lone Suikoden-flavored quality we heard successful the show. Producer Shinya Fujimatsu introduced america to Suikoden Star Leap, a marque caller RPG acceptable successful the Suikoden world, and the archetypal mobile crippled successful the series. It's besides coming to Steam.

Free-to-play Star Leap takes spot a fewer years earlier the events of Suikoden I, but a mates years aft Suikoden V. The game’s creation benignant "takes inspiration from 2D pixel quality designs with a premix of 3D backgrounds." There are nary further details astatine this time, but you tin cheque retired immoderate much screenshots and wishlist implicit connected Steam.

Gradius Origins

Remember Gradius? It’s okay, I don't either, but that mightiness beryllium due to the fact that it's an old-school abstraction shooter that debuted waaaaay backmost successful 1985, which means this twelvemonth it marks its 40th(!) anniversary.

The quality bully is it’s coming to a full caller procreation of gamers courtesy of Gradius Origins. Expect it connected PC via Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch 2 connected August 7, 2025.

Deliver At All Costs

Deliver At All Costs is simply a thrilling enactment crippled wherever "destruction, absurdity and intrigue collide." You play arsenic Winston Green, a down-on-his-luck courier with a fiery temper and a mysterious past who takes the solemn work of a transportation operator very, very seriously.

It's bright, it's stylish, it's bizarre, and there's a enigma astatine the halfway of it, and... it's retired present connected PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S. There's a playable demo connected Steam, too, if you'd similar to effort earlier you buy.

Eden’s Zero

Surprise! Based connected the manga by Hiro Mashima — the writer of Fairy Tail and Rave Master — Eden’s Zero is yet getting a crippled adaptation, and you tin effort it present courtesy of a caller demo that's conscionable dropped. The afloat crippled is coming to PC via Steam and Windows, arsenic good arsenic PS5 and Xbox Series X and S, connected July 15, 2025.

Survival Kids

Konami has dropped different sensation of Survival Kids, its family-friendly, multiplayer escapade that sees you enactment with different players to flight a sun-soaked island. You tin play co-op locally oregon online and squad up instantly with GameChat and GameShare. It’s disposable exclusively connected Nintendo Switch 2 and —oh, did I notation it’s disposable now?

Silent Hill f

After a slew of bright, colorful, family-friendly games, Konami brought america backmost down to world with a bump, reminding america of the nightmare substance that is Silent Hill f. Series shaper Motoi Okamoto explained that portion Silent Hill is simply a bid that “fuses the essence of occidental and Japanese horror,” helium felt arsenic though “Japanese fearfulness had been lost.”

"I began to developer a tendency to make a Silent Hill that embodied 100% Japanese-style horror," helium added. "If I were to make a Silent Hill with a Japanese aesthetic, I believed that a accumulation squad from Japan oregon Asia would beryllium ideal." And that's erstwhile helium came crossed NeoBards.

NeoBards shaper Albert Lee added that "many members of our squad are longtime fans of Silent Hill and Ryukishi07" and said the absorption was connected creating a crippled that maintained the "spirit" of the bid "within a Japanese atmosphere." We should besides expect the combat strategy to consciousness some "fresh and familiar," without being overly complex. We'll find retired what they mean connected September 25.

Silent Hill Remake

The moment that mandolin kicked in, I knew — yes, the archetypal 1999 Silent Hill crippled is finally getting a remake.

There were nary much details than that — nary merchandise window, not adjacent a screenshot, I'm acrophobic — but we’ll support you posted arsenic and erstwhile Konami reveals more. We did, however, larn that Konami has entrusted Silent Hill 2 Remake developer Bloober Team successful bringing the archetypal crippled to modern audiences.

We did get a "reimagining" of the inaugual crippled backmost successful 2009 with Wii crippled Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, but it felt and played similar a precise antithetic game, truthful it'll beryllium absorbing to spot however Bloober adapts Team Silent's 26-year-old communicative and combat for modern players.

Wondering wherefore we got Silent Hill 2 Remake earlier Silent Hill? That's due to the fact that Silent Hill 2 is fundamentally a standalone crippled successful the series. Silent Hill 1, however, is followed straight by sequel Silent Hill 3... which has maine hoping that we'll get that next...

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.