Hideo Kojima met with the director of certainly one of 2022’s best films — cue the hypothesis

Few game builders are as scrutinized as Hideo Kojima. The creator of Demise Stranding and the Steel Gear collection can’t submit something to the web with out stirring up a flurry of fan theories about what he’s engaged on subsequent. Working example: this story.

To be truthful, Kojima brings a few of this on himself by sharing images of well-known people he brings into the Kojima Productions studio. On this case, director S.S. Rajamouli got here in for a facial scan. Rajamouli is a famend Indian movie director who’s seen a spike within the Western world due to RRR, the most effective films of the 12 months in line with each critics and basic audiences. Given the opposite well-known faces Kojima has had scanned into his earlier video games, this does have an implication that Rajamouli will probably be seen within the subsequent one in some kind.

He’s certainly one of two stars we’ve seen associating with Kojima just lately. About two weeks earlier than this scan, Kojima put actress Elle Fanning via the identical course of. Fanning additionally hung out within the studio’s full-body scanner, main many to consider she’ll be a outstanding (and playable) character in Kojima’s subsequent mission.

Previous to both of those well-known faces being shared by Kojima, we heard some doable particulars about that subsequent mission. Over the summer time, it was reported that the following game is named Overdose, and that the lead character will probably be performed by Margaret Qualley, who portrayed Mama in Demise Stranding. Clearly none of that is confirmed (we don’t even know Fanning or Rajamouli’s true goal), however this 12 months’s Game Awards looks like a terrific place for a brand new game announcement. Host Geoff Keighley and Kojima have a bond, in any case.

As for Demise Stranding, the once-exclusive game is now obtainable on PC Game Go. This comes two years after its basic PC launch in summer time 2020.