Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance – the game referenced in this particular trademark – launched on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2013, followed by PC and Nvidia Shield releases later on. The Castlevania series has been dormant since 2014's commercially disappointing Lords of Shadow 2 (assuming you don't count the short-lived smartphone outing, Grimoire of Souls), while 2018's Metal Gear Survive (developed without franchise founder Hideo Kojima) also failed to find an audience. Trademarks are renewed all of the time, so this doesn't necessarily mean that we're getting new video games – although some recent Metal Gear-related tweets will have gotten fans joining the dots regardless. However, the news that the company has applied for fresh trademarks for Castlevania (well, Akumajou Dracula, which is the Japanese name for the series) and Metal Gear Rising has predictably got tongues wagging. This mod is a repack of the MGS4 visor file, only with the idle state animation of the visor being on, has been pasted over every other animation state for. Not so long ago it was competing with the likes of Capcom, Sega and Nintendo at the top of the market, but these days it is more content pushing out moderately successful titles like Super Bomberman R and less profitable reboots like Contra: Rogue Corps. It's fair to say that Konami isn't the force it once was in the world of video games.
