With Hideo Kojima making waves many decades ago with Metal Gear tactical espionage-action game series, you can bet that him and his titular studio (Kojima Productions) announcing plans to work on a brand new project in the genre would turn more than a few heads. While the Metal Gear franchise still remains in the hands of Konami, Kojima Productions used this morning’s PlayStation State of Play to announce that such a project has commenced, with development to get well and truly underway following work concluding on Death Stranding II.
As stated by Hideo Kojima:
Yes, today, I’m excited to announce that we at Kojima Productions are creating a brand-new action-espionage game. Preparations are underway, but production will begin in earnest after Death Stranding 2. We have strong experience with Sony Interactive Entertainment, having grown the action-espionage genre together for almost 30 years, and while most of our partnerships with Sony in the past have been for games, they also produce music and films, and this will definitely be a cooperative collaboration.
Furthermore, Kojima Productions has added:
With the full support of Sony Interactive Entertainment, this new action-espionage game will use cutting-edge technology and a stellar cast to deliver an experience like no other. Blurring the boundaries between film and games, offering near life-like graphics and a new take on interactive entertainment.
Expect to hear more about this new game, presumably for the PlayStation 5, or heck, even a potential PlayStation 6, sometime in the future.
