Host Geoff Keighley and ex-Konami developer Hideo Kojima’s bromance is renowned for bearing plump video game fruits – but the auteur is not yet ready to unveil his latest projects, which will presumably include Death Stranding 2. Keighley had two-hours (!!!) of airtime to fill during Gamescom Opening Night Live, however, so here’s some huge news: Kojima is bringing a new podcast to Spotify.
All snark aside, this could be an interesting listen. Scheduled to debut on 8th September, the show – named Brain Structure – promises “a deep dive into [the Metal Gear man’s] brain” and to “shed light on his creative process”. It’ll be available in both Japanese and English, and subsequent episodes will release every Thursday.
The podcast will include guests from “various fields”, and Keighley himself will also feature, providing weekly industry news. You can subscribe to the podcast right now, through here.
[source open.spotify.com]
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I commented about it on the live stream too, but this being on Spotify makes it an instant pass from me. I don't want to support that misinformation site.
Probably the most exciting new reveal for ONL for me.
Sick. Can't wait.
Kojima is a machine. How he has time to do this while simultaneously developing at least 3 different game projects is beyond me. 😄
This wasn't the place for an announcement like this but then again we did see a friggin Pokémon car so you know what? Go for it Kojima.
Spotify exclusive? Is this a Joe Rogan situation where it’s been money-hatted? Don’t know why it would not be available everywhere otherwise.
This is going to take the whole ‘what does HK really mean’ to a whole another level lol.
I listened to a gaming podcast once, and it made me think "well...yeah." I listened to one talking about diversity in games and the response from another one of the podcasters was "this diverse character is good because..." and the reasons are so tediously obvious you are thinking "well...yeah." Hideo Kojima might have an interesting new perspective, but I know enough somewhat more local game developers that his viewpoints would not really be news to me.
@Th3solution what's that about 3 projects? Where did you hear that from?
@Th3solution Wait Kojima is working on three different games? What are they about?
@KidBoruto @NeonTiger Sorry guys, I was saying that mostly tongue-in-cheek because it seems like there are so many rumors about what Kojima is making. Of course none of them are confirmed that I know of but 1) there’s of course speculation about Death Stranding 2 due to the Norman Reedus quote about working on “the next one”. People assume that means DS2; 2) there’s the leak/rumors about project “Overdose” starring Margaret Qualley. This is also often felt to be an Xbox exclusive based on their cloud technology; 3) rumors are even less substantiated about a Silent Hill game that he’s working on, with completely groundless speculation that he’s working things out with Konami again to partner on the project; 4) also really vague recent rumors about him working on a PlayStation exclusive of an unknown title.
The funny thing is all the rumors might actually be the same game and he might just be working on one project with both Reedus and Qualley and that Project “Overdose” is actually the same game as the “next one” that Reedus spoke of in his interview, which may also be the same game which has been both rumored to be an Xbox exclusive and a PlayStation exclusive and is in fact multiplatform. So the various rumors make it sound like multiple games but maybe it’s just one or two. 😅
Either way, the guy is pretty busy, yet he’s also starting a new podcast…. So maybe he’s not making any games at the moment. 😛
@Th3solution According to wikipedia the only "confirmed" games are the supposed Death Stranding sequel, and the untitled Xbox game.
@KidBoruto Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I suspect that there are probably 2 games in development at Kojima Studios — one a PlayStation exclusive (DS sequel or whatever it is Norman Reedus meant by “the next one”) and one an XBox exclusive (the horror style cloud project coined “Overdose”). By having something to offer both PS and XB communities, he’s able to avoid upsetting either fanbase. Unless one of the games ends up being lousy and the other one is good. That will be interesting to see the backlash if the DS sequel stinks and the Overdose game is really awesome. 😄
@Th3solution That would make the most sense yeah. Hopefully both games will be officially revealed before 2023.
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