One other day, one other maddeningly obscure Hideo Kojima tease

Hideo Kojima has introduced… one thing? Or he is introduced that he will announce one thing, however the announcement is its personal announcement of, oh god cease the web I wish to get off. For a creator that made a game about data overload and the surfeit of junk in modern digital life, he does not precisely apply what he preaches.

Kojima has beforehand introduced that the studio will probably be displaying off a VR hallway at TGS (do not ask), then lately a brand new web site launched with a blanked-out face and the phrase “Who Am I?” superimposed atop it. Now our boy’s at it once more, tweeting out the identical face: 

It comes with some maddeningly on-brand textual content, which is each English and semi-gibberish:  “The reply to ‘WHO’ at TGS will probably be within the subsequent ‘WHERE’.” WHAT does that imply and WHEN?!

Clear as mud, although the implication appears to be that Kojima’s going to disclose the identification (of Elle Fanning, most followers reckon) at one of many massive year-end reveals: given his relationship with Geoff Keighley, I would stick a fiver on it being at The Game Awards.

The silhouetted face could properly not be Fanning, after all: however it does look an terrible lot like her (this is one fan evaluating pictures whereas huffing the copium). Fanning’s checklist of tasks is so long as your arm, however one aspect of notice is that she’s beforehand labored with Kojima buddy and director Nicholas Winding Refn, who’s the mocap actor for Heartman in Dying Stranding.

Whether or not it is Fanning or not, the opposite unanswered query is whether or not that is the start of the hype for Dying Stranding 2 (which is within the works) or the game that Kojima Productions is making in partnership with Microsoft. The previous is in manufacturing, and the best way Kojima’s been tweeting about movement seize periods lately suggests it is full steam forward, whereas with the latter either side have been cautious to say that it is a way off.

Kojima actually retains busy. In addition to these two video games and the VR hallway, he is been producing a podcast for Spotify and helped make a watch with NASA (which bizarrely comes with a wearable cranium face masks). You kinda need to respect the hustle even when, from time to time, it will be good for him simply to announce one thing substantial, slightly than Hideo Kojima saying one other Hideo Kojima announcement.