Update: #1 : Update: Joystiq has discover that if you watch the scene on the site long enough, you’ll see the characters “5,” (what is likely the typeface’s equivalent of) “@,” “E” and “3″ briefly flash on the screen, one after the next. “5@E3″ it is, then!  There is a gallery showing the not-so-cryptic characters below. The timer has also been adjusted for 120 hours — 5 days — ending on May 26. 

The countdown timer on Kojima Productions’ teaser site for its next project, launched one week ago today, has reached zero, revealing yet another countdown!  This one is set for a little more than 8 days, expiring on May 30. It’s also raining now in the picture now, does this foreshadow something bad to happen, We don’t know. But we will keep you posted.

Given the news earlier today that Japanese gaming mag Famitsu will unveil a Metal Gear project for a PlayStation platform on its May 30 issue’s cover, we know that many fans out there are counting down ever millisecond until the timer runs out. Still, we will keep you posted.

[Via Joystiq]