Konami's Los Angeles development studio, the team formerly known as Kojima Productions Los Angeles, has been closed. Konami confirmed the studio's closure in a statement emailed to Polygon today.

"Konami has made the decision to close its Los Angeles Studio, effective immediately, due to the product development resources being restructured into a more centralized unit. This facility contributed to the recent Metal Gear Solid games. Konami will continue its operations to support all Metal Gear Solid titles, including the recently launched Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Online. Metal Gear Online is still scheduled to release for PC Steam in January 2016."

http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/3/9667230/konami-kojima-productions-los-angeles-studio-closed

Yet we're suppose to believe Kojima is on vacation? Yea right.

Rest in piece.

Konami: He's totally on break guys! Trust us... please? Ok now to take down this studio while we're at it

I can't understand how some people can trust/have faith in a company that says one thing and then does another thing that blatantly contradicts what they just said.

For everyone's information, Kojima is still at konami ...

Just because they shut down his own dedicated studio does not mean that he's not employed there ...

How do you know for sure, this whole KojimaGate is filled to the brim with FUD.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/kojima-is-on-vacation-and-still-an-employee-says-k/1100-6431544/

Any objections ?

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The confirmation of Kojima Productions clossure was also asserted by a Japanese VA for the game in that same article

"Inside sources" claim Kojima is leaving, Konami says he is still an employee and on Vacation. 

Other "evidence" is unrelaible/dubious at best

Objections? A couple:

Konami's statements don't directly contradict the Inside Source that is, Kojima can still be on the way out even if he is still an employee currently, they haven't said anything about renewing his contract yet.

None of this explains why his Kojima productions was removed from the box art. Even if they where preparing to close down the studio, it wouldn't make sense to that after the fact let alone in lieu of it.

Because no company has ever lied for the sake of good PR. As long as they warp the story well enough, we'll probably end up hearing about how Kojima chose to leave Konami on good terms in a month or two. They'll try to get a good PR cleanup for this entire mess because that is exactly what a company does when something has landed them in hot water.

I mean, c'mon, we just had the Vita PR debacle what, a week ago? PR is a game of making sure the company is viewed in a good light. If that means twisting around facts a bit to achieve a more favorable image, then so be it.