Hideo Kojima is nothing short of a legend in the gaming world thanks to his 3-decade tenure on his Metal Gear series. For the last couple years since the company sent him packing when it decide to focus on pachinko machines instead of big-scale games, he’s been working on something new: Death Stranding. Ever since the first trailer, we’ve been struggling to figure out exactly what it’s...
We’ve now seen four trailers for Death Stranding, and I don’t have any more idea of what it’s about or what exactly you do in the game than I did before. And that’s after seeing what looked like some actual gameplay. The two biggest things we learned (think we learned) are that death is not the end and that stealth is a totally new thing in Death Stranding. We see the characters...
I have no idea what Death Stranding is about. But there are few games I'm as excited for. Hideo Kojima has gone out of his way to be as vague as possible about his upcoming game, despite having shown us three trailers for it. At tonight's Game Awards, we got an in-depth, almost eight-minute look at it. And we still don't know a thing. This is the longest trailer for the game yet....
I know a lot of unreasonable gamers don’t want to hear nice things about Konami these days, but when it’s their Messiah Hideo Kojima preaching, they might just drop the pride and listen. In a recent interview with Toyo Keizai, the famed Metal Gear creator praised the video game company, saying that it granted him a lot of freedoms to make the games he wanted. He followed up lamenting...
If you tweet about the LEGO Batman Movie enough, they'll make a mini-fig based on your likeness. That's how it worked out for legendary game designer Hideo Kojima, anyway. The caped crusader's LEGO movie is in Japanese theaters now, and Kojima had tweeted about movie a number of times. Wrote a comment on @LEGOBatmanMovie. @wbpictures has made me new 'LEGO HIDEO'. It's the movie fans...
As Hideo Kojima works on his first big departure from the Metal Gear series in a long time, and his first project since leaving Konami last year, the director has been pretty careful about revealing information before he’s ready. Little bits and pieces trickle out, though. In an interview with the PlayStation Blog this week, a few more tidbits slipped out, and while they’re hardly...
Hideo Kojima, the maker of Metal Gear and current lead on Death Stranding, gets scared “very easily.” Those are his words, by the way. This from the guy that was working on Silent Hills. In an interview with IGN at RTX Sydney, Kojima explained that he’s backing away from making horror games. They give him nightmares. He scares easily, but he also thinks this is what makes him good for...
Following the canceled Silent Hills, gamers feared that the long sought-after collaboration between developer Hideo Kojima and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro would never come to fruition. Then the trailer for Death Stranding dropped during last year’s Game Awards. del Toro was actually rendered in the game (carrying a baby in a jar that would vanish, no less). You can see the footage in...
Ludens, the space-faring mascot of Hideo Kojima’s new studio, Kojima Productions, is now available to purchase as a premium model. Where most models are scaled in eights, sixteenths, and thirty-seconds, though, this first Ludens model is half-scale. That means that, including his flag, he clocks in at 63″ tall, or just a half-foot shorter than your average American male. And the cost?...
When Hideo Kojima dropped by The Game Awards to accept his Industry Icon award, he came bearing a new trailer for his upcoming game Death Stranding. The trailer was said to be running in real-time and in 4K on the PlayStation 4 Pro. A couple days later at Sony’s PlayStation Experience event, Kojima revealed the tech powering the game: Horizon Zero Dawn developer Guerrilla Games’ Decima...