The original Metal Gear Solid, from the PSone, is heading to the PlayStation Network, Famitsu magazine confirm today. Word has it that Kojima's masterpiece will be released for the and the in the spring.

Metal Gear Solid was the game that kick-started the whole MGS craze, the Komami release defining a whole series which has sold by the bucketload on every format released to-date.

We're hopeful of a release in and North America, too, although details are non-existent outside of Japan.

A case of watch this space, then.

By Luke Guttridge