To finish off a week of Metal Gear announcements Konami has announced an officially sponsored Metal Gear Online tournament. While no prizes have been announced yet Konami says that you should hurry up and register as space is limited. Below are the directions to register for said tournament:

1) Log into MGO with the character you wish to enter into the Tournament (starting June 23rd) – but hurry, only a limited number of players can participate
2) Go to Lobby Select and choose Tournament Registration
3) On the Lobby Screen select one of the 4 tournament lobbies to register (i.e. US TOURNEY 1, US TOURNEY 2, etc.)
4) Select either Join Team (pick a team off the list to join), Create Team and Submit Entry (set up the team name and password), or Solo Entry (assigned to a random team)

Entry will apparantly begin on the 23rd while the actual tournament will begin on the 26th. We’ll keep you posted as more information is released.

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If you are a fan of Metal Gear Online, which was bundled with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot, you will be happy to hear that it will be recieving an update at a currently unannounced time.

While the announcement is entirely in Japanese, we do know that the update will be entitled Scene Expansion and include a new multiplayer map called Icebound Inferno. You may recognize Icebound Inferno as it closely resembles the Shadow Moses level found in Metal Gear Solid 4. Additionally, Scene Expansion will give players the chance to choose Old Snake as an online playable character.

There’s no word on when the Scene Expansion update will hit for Metal Gear Online but we will be sure to keep you posted.

Dubbed the “Meme Expansion”, the add-on will offer three new maps – Silo Sunset, Forest Firefight and Winter Warehouse, offering a variety of environments to fight in. It will also add two new playable characters: Liquid Ocelot and Mei Ling.

No price or release date was mentioned. However, it will be present in playable form at next week’s Tokyo Game Show.