Just a week ago, news broke that hinted at Hideo Kojima's next project. Kojima , one of the last remaining gurus of the old guard, is responsible for masterpieces like the Metal Gear saga and, more recently, Death Stranding. His new project with Microsoft, announced on June 12th, has sent shockwaves through the industry, which is now searching for clues about what he's up to.
Kojima returns to terror
If you recall, it was the website Try Hard Guides that published a whole series of details about what this new game from Kojima Productions would be , revealing the name, the development process, and even the face of one of its characters. The first was Overdose , the second a first- and third-person horror game, and the last Margaret Qualley, whom we saw again after her role as Mama in Death Stranding . So now it's time to piece together what the Japanese developer revealed at the Microsoft conference.
And one of those details is that his new game would leverage the technological power of Microsoft's cloud gaming , without specifying a platform. This makes it clear that it could target not only PCs and Xboxes, but any other device with a screen and a stable internet connection, such as iOS and Android smartphones or tablets. In this way, he could bring Overdose to every imaginable corner of the planet in one fell swoop.
Hideo Kojima has always expressed his creativity in countless interviews, even speculating about potential projects where he'd like to explore new boundaries. Microsoft has surely opened that door wide for him, leading him to utter a phrase at the North American company's showcase that says it all: "This is the game I always wanted to make," undoubtedly not only because of its theme but also because of its potential to reach a global audience.
It is reaffirmed in the information
As we said, in the last few hours Try Hard Guides has not only reaffirmed everything it published, which led to a request from Kojima Productions to remove any news related to Overdose , but has also expanded a little more on the things that, precisely, confirm what was seen in the Microsoft showcase .
And the media outlet reveals new information, such as that the Overdose images they accessed appeared to be recorded of a person playing on a mobile phone, almost certainly a Google Pixel, which would serve as total confirmation after the announcement that the North Americans' cloud technology has been key to the Japanese company joining the Xbox ecosystem.
But there's more. In 2020, Stadia canceled dozens of projects it had planned to produce, including an episodic horror game. Things remained unresolved until May of that year when Hideo Kojima confessed, "I recently had a project that was important to me canceled, so I'm quite angry." Is it possible that the work he initially did for Google's cloud platform ended up in Microsoft's hands?
We'll see, but for now Overdose is the only clue we have about what the Japanese artist is preparing next.