Metal Gear Solid 5's online multiplayer delayed by a month

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The multiplayer shenanigans of Metal Gear Online won't be available when Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain releases on September 1. Konami announced that MGS 5's squad-based competitive shooter component will go live on consoles on October 6 and in early January 2016 on PC.

Hopefully Metal Gear Online has a better launch than that other hotly anticipated open-world action game with a delayed multiplayer component: GTA Online was anything but online for a few weeks after it launched in October 2013. Granted, Metal Gear Online should be a bit more manageable, since it doesn't have an open world of its own; what it does have are character classes, gear, squads, and weaponized Fulton surface-to-air recovery devices.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan
Former GamesRadar+ News Writer

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar+.