#ThisWeekAtKJP# Our “Otsukaresama Day” is back after a while 👍 After a little hiatus, our end of the month celebration is back 👍 Today’s menu: Opor Ayam 🍗 A traditional Indonesian chicken dish simmered in coconut milk. #KojimaProductions#

Kojima Productions' OD | talking about OD and Screenshot "I wanted to do something new. I wanted to do something different," he says. "I had this OD concept since I was working on DS1 [Death Stranding] and I was working on it just by myself. I can't reveal much detail, but it's something that no one has ever seen before. A new game system." "I pitched to many people, to the big companies, and also to the up-and-coming companies. All of them said the same thing," Kojima recalls. "They said that I'm crazy, and that they really don't understand the concept — that they will not be able to do it. Kojima expertly teases, "I wanted to go beyond the limit of the 'scariness' that other games had reached. It's a single-player game, and I wanted to make it as scary as possible. But for those that might stop playing when it gets too scary, I have thought of a system that will allow them to keep going. I can't say much more, because it'll give too much of a hint on the system, and I could get in trouble for saying too much!"

Hideo Kojima posted new official art for PHYSINT. The poster shows Bill Skarsgård and Charlee Fraser and lists Don Lee and Minami Hamabe. The tagline is “The Next Cold War Begins.” Credits name Kojima for scenario, production, game design, and direction, and Yoji Shinkawa for character and mechanical design. Xbox and MetaHuman logos appear on the poster. A second image from Kojima Productions and Xbox shows the same four-person cast under the line “A Hideo Kojima Game.” Kojima confirmed Skarsgård as the lead. PHYSINT is an action-espionage game from Kojima Productions, now published by Xbox.

Windows Central claims Xbox is paying only a fraction of the rumored $400 million for Hideo Kojima’s PHYSINT. According to Jez Corden, sources with direct knowledge of the contracts said that the $400 million figure being reported may actually have been the amount Sony/PlayStation could have been on the hook for before its deal was cancelled. Corden says Xbox and Kojima Productions are instead working with a “fraction” of that figure. Playstation would spend that on concord 3

According to Paul Tassi, Sony no longer working with Kojima on PHYSINT means Kojima Productions has reportedly lost access to Sony’s Decima engine. Both Death Stranding games were built with Decima, a graphics engine considered one of the best and central to the look and tech of Kojima games. They will have to switch to UE or one of the engines Xbox has. There’s unconfirmed information that Sony/PlayStation made multiple attempts to acquire Kojima Productions, but Hideo Kojima repeatedly turned them down, including the latest offer. If they lost access to Decima, PHYSINT could take even more time to develop while they work on another engine.

PlayStation has officially stepped away from PHYSINT, its planned collaboration with Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions. The game is still in development. Xbox has expanded its partnership with Kojima Productions and will now publish PHYSINT. PlayStation says its relationship with Kojima remains strong and that it hopes to continue working with him on future projects. Sony keeps taking terrible decisions wtf are they doing

The day isn’t yet over for Sony, new footage from closed tests “Project Espresso”, the reported codename for FAIRGAME$. They stopped funding Kojima Productions Physint today, but the same day they have started rolling out betas for another live-service game no one asked for. I’ve watched the trailer and it’s just another generic extraction shooter. Can they stop funding these things and make good games

An update from PlayStation Studios: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to step away from collaborating with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS on its project PHYSINT. We continue to have great admiration for Hideo Kojima's vision for the game. Our relationship remains strong after three decades of industry-leading, genre-defining creative cooperation, and we look forward to continued close collaboration with Hideo Kojima and his award-winning independent studio in the future.