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Hideo Kojima Says He Wants to Make Weirder Games, but He Can’t

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Hideo Kojima, progenitor of the Metal Gear Solid series, is one of gaming’s most idiosyncratic personalities. If you read a headline about the Japanese developer, there’s a good chance the adjective of choice used will be “weird” regardless of the topic. But if you ask the man himself, he can get weirder — and there’s a reason he’s not going down that pathway. In a fantastic profile with GQ Tuesday, Kojima details everything from intense COVID-e…

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It is the great demiurge of the video game industry, the Kubrick of the Playstation controller: Hideo Kojima publishes a new game, Death Stranding 2, and it is an event. At 61 years old, after having faced health problems, this illuminated pioneer begins to think about the many projects that he may not be able to achieve. Encounter between life and death.

As he prepares for the release of Death Stranding 2, the pioneer video game director continues to inject his iconoclast vision into increasingly ambitious projects: decommunal games, an A24 film and artistic collaborations. But, after suffering health problems, he is beginning to think, for the first time, of projects that he may not come to a conclusion.

Video game maker Hideo Kojima thinks a lot about future projects – films and games. And whether he can finish them before he dies.

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80.lv broke the news in on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
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