# Since 2008 ZOE3 has been in concept development by Hideo Kojima, but was kept away from game development until all the big titles where completed these (included Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Solid Rising & Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker).

Hideo Kojima has once again confirmed his intentions to develop Zone of the Enders 3. While this sequel is planned for some time now, Kojima Productions has not been able to begin this project because of the three other games that are in development at the studio at the moment. However, Kojima promised that once these games were released, his team would start working on Zone of the Enders 3.

Asked by JeuxVideo about the rumor of a new installment in the Zone of the Enders series, Kojima replied that “Actually, this is not a rumor (laughs). My team and I want to develop a new Zone of the Enders, but it turns out that Kojima Productions has limited resources in terms of teams and directors. So at this stage we have not yet had time to work on Zone of the Enders 3, so therefore it has been postponed. However, I think after Metal Gears Solid: Rising, I will seriously look at Zone of the Enders.”

Zone of the Enders is a mech suit combat game set in the late 22nd century when Mars and the moons around Jupiter were colonized by humans. However, those remaining on Earth start to look down on the colonists, imposing unfair laws and taxes. A kind of civil war ensues and the player fills in the shoes of one of the mech pilots fighting for good or evil in this conflict.

Kojima mentioned in the interview that not only the two Metal Gear Solid titles, Rising and Snake Eater 3D, are taking up all his time, but also the third unannounced game he has been teasing for a while now. “We are working on three projects simultaneously: Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the port of the MGS franchise on 3DS and then another title that should be quite important and that I want to take care of the implementation and design.” He talked about this mysterious new project before as being one of the most important games he had ever worked on. He also said it would break many taboos and that if it failed, he would have to retreat from the industry.