Xbox Game Studios and Kojima Productions officially confirmed their partnership on a new game during last year's Xbox and Bethesda Game Show. While specific details have yet to be revealed, the former publishing team visited Microsoft's studios recently.
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Aaron Greenberg, vice president of Xbox games marketing at Microsoft, said it was an important meeting of “the engineering, cloud, marketing and production teams coming together to embark on an exciting journey into the future.”
Starting a journey could mean a lot of things. It could indicate that development is still in its early stages, which makes sense given that Koijma Productions is also working on Death Stranding 2 and the leaked game Overdose. Time will tell eventually, so we'll wait and see.
All that's known about this project is that it's primarily a cloud experiment using Microsoft technology, and that it's a game that Hideo Kojima has wanted to make for a long time. It's rumored to be inspired by an existing title, and that Portal and Left4Dead director Kim Swift was recently hired as the head of the Xbox Cloud Gaming team and is now implicated in the same rumor.
As for the developer's current project, details about "Death Stranding 2" are still quite hazy, although Kojima has revealed some information about what we can expect from its story and, interestingly, it has been rewritten from scratch due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 19. Death Stranding 2 is in development for the PS5 platform. The release date has not been officially confirmed, but there is a chance that the game will be released next year.
