Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima has announced plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of establishing his own studio, Kojima Productions, with an event in Tokyo later this month.
Hosted by Kojima himself, the “celebratory event,” entitled Beyond The Strand, will include guest appearances “as well as offer a glimpse into future projects.” It’ll take place at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan, on September 23, 2025.
Fans in the vicinity can enter a lottery to be in with a chance of securing a ¥7700 — the equivalent of around $50 — when tickets go on sale tomorrow, September 2. Or, alternatively, you can watch the action online.
Right now, it seems unlikely we’ll see much of Kojima’s mysterious upcoming PlayStation game Physint — as the developer recently told us the game remains “at the conceptual stage”. More likely, perhaps, we’ll get to know a little more about Kojima’s horror project OD, which is still in development in collaboration with Microsoft, despite Xbox’s recent cancellations of a number of projects, both internal and external.
Kojima first announced his OD collaboration with Xbox in November of 2022, then officially revealed OD along with several of its star cast members at The Game Awards 2023. We learned at the time that Kojima was working with filmmaker Jordan Peele to create a horror experience “no one has seen before.”
Hideo Kojima also, of course, created the seminal stealth series, Metal Gear, but that doesn’t mean he’ll be spending at time playing remake Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. When asked recently if he would be playing the remake, he laughed and replied: “No, I won’t.”. That said, Konami’s Metal Gear series producer Noriaki Okamura has said he’d love to work with Kojima again on the stealth series.
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