It appears that Snake has been caught by the guards. If you?ve been waiting for the Metal Gear Solid board game, you?re going to have to stick it out just a little bit longer. While originally set for a late 2019 release, the game has been delayed to summer 2020. The reason for this delay" The creators are worried it needs more polish. Rather than sitting down and cutting out some features so they can make the release date, they decided to push the game into next year. In a press release they noted the following:

Game design and development is an iterative process, and involves feedback from play-testers, graphic designers, the factory that will be producing the game, and our licensing partners in North America and Japan. As development progresses changes come in that range from things that affect quality of life aspects, things like the size of the spaces on the map tiles, to redesigning and developing scenarios for better balance. Ultimately, the amount of time it took to implement these changes just grew longer than expected and our window to ship the game on time closed. At that point, we were confronted with two options: create a list of changes that we could complete quickly in order to minimize the delay, or really dig in and make sure everything got polished to the fullest extent possible.

The good news" The game is now getting some extra goodies to make up for it. If you haven?t had a chance to preorder the Metal Gear Solid board game, the preorders hav...