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Hideo Kojima has lastly addressed the endless Deserted conspiracy theories, 18 months after followers grew to become satisfied that he was linked to Blue Field Studio’s survival horror.

The developer sat down with Geoff Keighley on the most recent episode of his podcast Mind Construction and a part of their dialogue was game rumours (thanks VGC). Kojima introduced up the persistent rumours that he is one way or the other concerned in Deserted, with followers satisfied that he is secretly the lead developer Hasan Kahraman and the game is definitely a brand new Silent Hill.

“Customers simply maintain sending me footage of this ‘Hasan.’ They nonetheless ship me collages and deep faux photographs like 20 a day. It is actually fairly a nuisance,” he mentioned. Later within the podcast, he mentioned: “I’ve by no means spoken with Hasan, the game is but to be launched. I do not assume there’s a lot he can do or say at this level, but when he releases the game, folks may perceive, so perhaps he ought to simply hurry up and launch it.”

Kojima additionally mentioned that he would not pull the identical trick twice, referring to the way in which that Steel Gear Strong 5 was initially revealed underneath the pseudonym of developer Moby Dick Studios. “Once we did that Moby Dick factor, you had been in on the entire thing, and that was fairly enjoyable,” he mentioned to Keighley. “However folks ought to know I would not do the identical factor twice.”

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Blue Field Studios responded to Kojima’s assertion in a tweet, the primary little bit of exercise from the studio since early April. “We need to thank @Kojima_Hideo for addressing the conspiracies overtly,” it learn. “It has been a burden and never cool for each followers and builders. We hope everybody can shut this for good. We’re working onerous on Deserted and we want to thanks for all of your endurance!” The developer additionally requested “followers to cease harassing Hideo Kojima relating to Deserted messages,” including: “This isn’t acceptable and isn’t entertaining.”

Though Deserted was revealed with comparatively little fanfare again in April 2021, Silent Hill followers grew to become satisfied within the months after that it was secretly a Silent Hill game in disguise. A whole subreddit, The Blue Field Conspiracy, has been devoted to documenting each move of each Kojima and Kahraman. The studio mentioned in October final 12 months that the rampant conspiracies had led to members of the staff receiving demise threats, “on-line however sadly additionally bodily.”

Improvement on Deserted has been rocky. Blue Field needed to make clear that its game wasn’t cancelled again in March after the studio deleted most of its tweets with game particulars, together with one about an upcoming playable demo (that also hasn’t occurred). An extra report in June urged that the venture was in disarray, with staff members calling Kahraman “duplicitous and liable to temper swings,” with the game allegedly wildly swinging from idea to idea.