Hideo Kojima Is Teasing A Mysterious New Video Game

Outside of actually playing video games, one of my favorite parts of covering games is a good mystery or puzzle to solve.

Nobody does this better than Hideo Kojima, the man behind The Phantom Pain mystery and the fake Moby Dick Studios developer allegedly making the game. Kojima’s little ruse was pretty easy to see through, but it was still a lot of fun. Of course this was Metal Gear Solid V, but we all eagerly went along for the ride.

Good grief, that was ten years ago. My how time flies.

Things got weird after Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain launched to both critical acclaim and . . . revelations that the game wasn’t quite finished. Apparently there was trouble between Kojima Productions and Konami, and soon the two parted ways, as Konami scrubbed Kojima’s name from his own creation.

Then came the big Sony partnership that resulted in the truly bizarre—but undoubtedly unique—Death Stranding, a game about Norman Reedus delivering packages with his pet baby in a confoundingly rocky apocalypse, taking long luxurious showers and fueling all of this with a steady diet of Monster Energy drinks.

Like I said, it was a weird and deeply disturbing game.

Now, a new game is on the horizon. A mystery game. A game that is only just now being teased on the official website of Kojima Productions with this image:

There’s been plenty of speculation and few details about whatever Kojima and his team are working on. A new horror game seems very likely given the short-lived Silent Hills / P.T. collaboration between Kojima, Reedus and film director Guillermo del Toro. This image is ominous and mysterious enough for a horror title.

It could also be a sequel to Death Stranding or it could be related to the game reportedly titled Overdose that Kojima Productions is working on with Xbox. Allegedly, that’s an episodic horror game built on Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology.

It could be something else entirely, of course. Whatever it is, it’s asking us to help figure that out. Who am I? What am I? And, of course, when will we find out?

So many questions. So few answers. What do you think? Let me know on Twitter or Facebook. Check out all my social and online haunts here.