Physint (PS5) News Articles
Monday5th Jan 2026
News Casting and Performance Capture for Hideo Kojima's PS5 Exclusive PHYSINT Will Begin in 2026
And we're off
Hideo Kojima spent the best part of 2025 travelling around the world to support the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, but the auteur will remain grounded this year as work gets underway in earnest on his spy thriller PHYSINT. The PS5 console exclusive – which is being pitched as a successor to the Metal Gear Solid series...
Tuesday4th Nov 2025
News As PHYSINT Begins Early Development, Hideo Kojima Visits Long-Time Ally Guerrilla Games
New Horizons
Hideo Kojima was in Italy this weekend for the Lucca Comics & Games 2025 convention, a European twist on Comic Con. But seeing as he was nearby, he stopped off at long-time collaborator Guerrilla Games’ office in Amsterdam, where he paused for photos with Sony bigwig Hermen Hulst and studio director Jan-Bart van Beek, among others...
Tuesday23rd Sep 2025
News Is This the First Tease of Next-Gen PS6 Graphics?
Kojima posts game engine render of Physint character
Developers like Kojima Productions are a handful of studios on the frontline constantly pushing the capabilities of video game tech and visuals, and Hideo Kojima may have shared a glimpse at the sort of graphical leap PS6 could provide. First-party project Physint is so far away from release that...
News Here's Your First Look at PlayStation's Next Big Thing, Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT
First cast members confirmed
Hideo Kojima has revealed the first poster for his upcoming espionage action game with PlayStation, which currently doesn’t have a platform attached but will likely launch on the PS6 and PS5. While there’s no release date or plot details confirmed, Kojima shared a brief update on the project’s status during a...
Friday8th Aug 2025
News Hideo Kojima Alone Is Currently Working on PlayStation Exclusive Physint
It's in the "conceptual stage"
Hideo Kojima could well be one of the busiest directors/designers in the industry right now; not only is he fielding interviews and constantly posting on social media, but he's also simultaneously working on three games at his studio, Kojima Productions. First, there's Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — he's working...
Wednesday6th Aug 2025
News Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki Visited Hideo Kojima as Attention Turns to Physint
Strengthening relationships
Hiroki Totoki, the current CEO of Sony, has spent a lovely afternoon with Hideo Kojima in Tokyo. The executive, who briefly served as PlayStation’s CEO while he learned about the business, took an obligatory photo with the Death Stranding maker in his studio’s iconic hallway. He then signed the developer’s wall...
Monday19th May 2025
News PlayStation, Hideo Kojima's Next-Gen Physint Game 'Five or Six' Years Away
See you on PS6
We are only a month away now from the next Hideo Kojima game releasing on PS5, but if you're more interested in what Kojima Productions has for the future, then you'll almost certainly need a PS6 to play it. When discussing film projects with French outlet Le Film Français, Kojima provides an overview of when he might get to make a...
Friday27th Sep 2024
News Kojima's Next Big PlayStation Game Physint Will Take Some Time to Complete
Well, duh
Physint is the next big game from Hideo Kojima, developed in partnership with PlayStation and Sony Pictures. Speaking as part of an interview with Variety, the iconic Japanese director explained how he increasingly sees movies and interactive entertainment as interchangeable – and hinted that, while the aforementioned espionage title...
Monday12th Feb 2024
News Kojima: Your Mother Won't Be Able to Tell the Difference Between PHYSINT and a Movie
Well, okay
PHYSINT, the new Metal Gear Solid-style action espionage from Hideo Kojima, is being branded as a game and a movie all at the same time. At this point, it’s unclear whether the auteur is making two connected pieces of media or one product which merges the two mediums, but we know both Sony Interactive Entertainment and Columbia Pictures...
Thursday1st Feb 2024
News Could Sony, Hideo Kojima's Physint Be the First Announced PS6 Game?
He even says it's for the "next generation"
Considering that Kojima Productions is nowhere near the biggest developer in the world, it seems absurdly busy at the moment. The Japanese team has Death Stranding 2: On the Beach slated for 2025, it's collaborating with Xbox on OD, and now there's a new IP in the works funded by Sony. That is a lot of...
Wednesday31st Jan 2024
News Sony Partners with Hideo Kojima on Physint, Basically Sounds Like a Metal Gear Successor
Metal Gear?!
Sony and PlayStation Studios have announced a partnership with Kojima Productions on a project titled (or at least codenamed) Physint. Going by how all of this is being framed, this is essentially a successor to Metal Gear — which is of course owned by Konami, and has nothing to do with Kojima anymore. The game is already being...
