Hideo Kojima shared a new poster for his upcoming horror game OD: KNOCK🚀 It’s genuinely hard to tell whether this is live action or in-game. And the fact that Sophia Lillie hasn’t had a short hair for a while, makes me think this is in-game😱

Hideo Kojima is returning as Hideyoshi Oshima in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2. CD PROJEKT RED confirmed the braindance director who already appears at the Konpeki Plaza bar in Cyberpunk 2077 will show up again in the anime. The character was modeled after and voiced by Kojima in the game. He had already said he had cameo roles in two anime projects. Edgerunners 2 is a new 10-episode ensemble story set in Night City that starts on Netflix on October 20. Bringing the same character back ties the anime directly to the existing cameo.

Hideo Kojima has acknowledged a fan-made port of P.T. that allows the game to run natively on Windows, making it playable for a wide majority of users after it was relegated to PS4 hell.

Hideo Kojima says he has “mixed feelings” about NVIDIA’s DLSS 5. He said it on KOJI10, the podcast he hosts with TBS announcer Maoko Hibi, after fans sent him comparisons of the tech running on Death Stranding 2. DLSS 5 uses generative AI to rebuild light and textures. Hibi asked if the game was already ahead of the technology. Kojima disagreed. “We want the actors to look their best,” he said, and added that the team keeps refining the lighting on each shot. “There was a reason I chose a particular lighting setup.” He said he would not want someone changing the original too much, even if the technology will “probably become standard.” “I don’t much like the idea.”

Hideo Kojima’s Physint reportedly has a budget of around $400 million, according to The Game Business. The huge reported budget is said to have spooked Sony, which later walked away from the project. Xbox has since reportedly picked up the game. Jason Schreier also described the budget as “pretty significant less” Jason Schreier uses to lie a lot so don’t believe too much

Hide an object behind a wall in a video generation model, and it might come back as something else entirely. This paper tackles that object permanence failure head-on. Title: Training Object Permanence in World Models URL: 📝 Overview The paper trains video models on object permanence and solidity — cognitive abilities human infants develop by six months old. It builds WROP, a benchmark of 150 synthetic task generators producing 1.5M training samples, and PWM-WROP, a 16B-parameter model fine-tuned on it. ❓ Problem Solved Models like Sora let objects vanish behind occluders and reappear as different objects, or pass straight through solid barriers. These failures undermine higher-level reasoning about collisions and cause and effect. 💡 Method & Approach 150 Blender-generated tasks are organized into six occlusion and solidity families. Structural parameters like object count and trajectory vary systematically while surface parameters like color and lighting are randomized, preventing models from succeeding through memorization. PWM-WROP fine-tunes NVIDIA's Cosmos3-Nano on this data. 📊 Results In 361 blind human pairwise comparisons, PWM-WROP ranked first among true-continuation models (Elo 1679.5), 224 points ahead of the runner-up. It topped every model on static occlusion tasks, but still struggled on solidity tasks like collisions. 🌍 Use Cases The team released the training data, model weights, and PWM, a native-PyTorch training stack for AWS Trainium2 — laying groundwork for physically grounded world models. #WorldModels# #VideoGeneration#

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.