On May 18, 2009, a teaser site for the following installment in the "Metal Gear" series was uploaded by Kojima Production. The site initially consisted of a series of countdowns leading to several flashing letters and the images of two characters looking like a middle-aged Big Boss and a cyborg Raiden. An article published in the July 2009 issue of "Famitsu PSP + PS3" covers the content of the site and features an interview with Hideo Kojima. The interview, revealing many details, is heavily censored and was published that way as a request by Kojima, who was directing and designing the new game. Famitsu was to publish the full interview in its following issue. The new game was eventually revealed to be "", which was announced on June 1, 2009, at E3, during the Microsoft Press Conference.