Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes director Hideo Kojima has been playing the game on his PS4, and has been teasing the world with photos of it on Twitter, the wonderful sod.

DualShockers spotted that Kojima was dropping tease-bombs on Twitter earlier. Here's a snap of the PS4 UI with Ground Zeroes ready to launch:

Here we "begin" again today. pic.twitter.com/bdlgFk9aE4

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) January 14, 2014

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And another of the game's loading screen:

And starting. pic.twitter.com/qPgUe4o5Un

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) January 14, 2014

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And here they are again at a decent size:

The tease.

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