Video game designer Hideo Kojima is a Japanese video game auteur. After being employed by Konami in 1986, he created and wrote Metal Gear (1987) for the MSX2. His most well-known and beloved creation is the Metal Gear series.
Along with writing and designing the visual adventure games Policenauts (1994) and Snatcher (1988) for Konami, he also produced the Zone of the Enders series.
In 2005, Kojima established Kojima Productions inside Konami, and in 2011, he was named vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment. In 2015, Kojima Productions became an independent studio after separating from Konami. Death Stranding, his studio’s debut title without Konami, was launched in 2019.
Hideo Kojima collaborates with Jordan Peele
Hideo Kojima revealed the details of his upcoming game during The Game Awards 2023. It is being created in collaboration with Xbox and goes by the name Overdose, as it has been rumored. Kojima and Oscar-winning director Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) are working together on the game.
.@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN?! 👀 But wait, someone else is knocking… please welcome @jordanpeele to #TheGameAwards! @Monkeypaw pic.twitter.com/3ooNewbfSB
— The Game Awards (@thegameawards) December 8, 2023
Through a translator, Kojima stated, “[OD] is a game, don’t get me wrong, but it’s at the same time a movie, but at the same time a new form of media.” “I’m a huge fan of Hideo, this man is an icon,” Peele remarked after joining Kojima onstage.
According to Kojima, his company, Kojima Productions, is collaborating with Xbox Game Studios and utilizing their cloud gaming technology to create a game that is “immersive” and unmatched by any previous game. The only information the Overdose trailer provides is that Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier will be appearing.
Just announced my new game “OD”. pic.twitter.com/U8TE9V1Ojv
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) December 8, 2023
The official description of OD reads: “A Hideo Kojima game, OD explores the concept of testing your fear threshold, and what it means to OD on fear–while blurring the boundaries of gaming and film.”
The expected debut date of Overdose is still unknown. It is one of the two games that Kojima Productions is working on, the other being the Death Stranding sequel.
Is Hideo Kojima’s working on Death Stranding 2?
One of the greatest PS4 games ever has a sequel coming soon. At the Game Awards 2022, Death Stranding 2‘s development status was officially revealed by Hideo Kojima.
A jaw-dropping cinematic trailer for the sequel was unveiled last December at the 2022 Game Awards, raising more questions than it did answers about what the sequel’s plot might possibly include. The Game Awards official X account teased a cryptic post by Kojima which led fans to believe that the sequel is coming soon.
There is currently nothing else to go on other than the vague 2024–2025 release window for Death Stranding 2 Death Stranding 2 is under a lot of pressure to exceed the expectations set by its predecessor.
While not everyone enjoyed Death Stranding, most people could agree that it was definitely distinctive. There is a lot to look forward to with Death Stranding 2, as the announcement trailer suggests. Many Kojima fans anticipate that this sequel will be just as unique and thought-provoking as the first.