Nokia has announced that Konami has signed on with the service provider, and will release Metal Gear Solid Mobile over Nokia's N-Gage service. Read up on this intriguing development after the jump!

Snake takes on his toughest (and tiniest) mission ever as Konami and Verizon Wireless deliver the mobile phone game version of one of the most popular video game franchises with Metal Gear Solid Mobile. You can take a look at the details of this interesting game title in our full version.

Curious about Solid Snake skulking into the mobile platform scene? Then we've got the skinny direct from this year's Games Developer Conference, where Konami Digital marketing manager Chad Mc'Neill talks about Metal Gear Solid Mobile and its imminent release on U.S. shores. Check out the video interview after the jump.

In case you haven't heard yet, Solid Snake's making his way to mobile phones. Set as a sequel to Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid Mobile is part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the franchise. As if waiting for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots wasn't enough to keep our hands itching. Check out a new trailer for Metal Gear Mobile in the full article.

New images from iconic video game hero Solid Snake's upcoming mobile phone adventure have been released by Konami into the premises of the online version of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. You can check 'em out along with a bit of info on Metal Gear Solid Mobile by clicking on the "read more" link below.

Smart guys would do anything to sneak past any tight security. Solid Snake, Sam Fisher, Gabe Logan - you name it. Different tricks are used by stealth masters and fugitives alike. This one prisoner thought of hiding a mobile phone up his bum, but it didn't go just as planned.

This 32-year old Irish burglar, Martin Mahoney, had the phone inside his bowels for days before it broke apart. Only after these painful days did he confess, and was sent for surgery. More than 200 internal stitches and a missing part of his bladder marked the failed attempt.

It's a common thing among thieves to hide phones crucial to their operations in all parts of their body. Someone from behind the rails said, “The method he used to conceal his mobile is the most common among lags, but they might start kicking the habit now."

Martin is now known as Phoney Mahoney among his inmates. May he serve as model to fellow crime doers using tricks that could end up having them on a hospital bed with shattered parts of a mobile phone up their bottom.