Kojima Productions
Playstation’s Biggest Game Studios & The Games They’re Working On
Sony’s first party studios have a tendency to deliver top of the class gaming experience since the dawn of PlayStation in 1994 with PlayStation 1 and studios like Santa Monica Studios and Insomniac games are a living witness to my words. Today, PlayStation is over 23 years old, and it has evolved into a community, a sensation and Sony’s first party studios are at the core of it. The studios are determined to make PS the best place to play with the titles they are working on. These titles are few of the most awaited gaming titles worldwide. Naughty Dog The legendary studio behind the Uncharted series and the emotional roller coaster ride, The Last of Us, is confirmed to be producing The Last of Us Part II. The trailer was released earlier this year at E3 2017. Santa Monica Studi...
Hideo Kojima Is Using Sophisticated Tech To Drive Visuals In Death Stranding
During Siggraph 2017, Principal Tech Programmer from Guerilla Games, Giliam de Carpentier and Kohei Ishiyama from Kojima Productions held a presentation called Decima Engine: Advances in Lighting and AA, providing a glimpse at the fog system being developed for the upcoming Death Stranding. While the Decima Engine has in-built flexible atmospheric scattering system linked with clouds and lighting, Kojima Productions needed a system better optimized for photo-realistic rendering. They developed a model independently, where information about the sun and the sky light is supplied to the height fog model from the precomputed atmospheric scattering model. Two types of conditions were precomputed, sunny and desnse fog. Using these two as the base conditions, it’s possible to portray differ...
Kojima Had Nothing To Do With Metal Gear: Survive
Hideo Kojima, the creator of the Metal Gear franchise denied any involvement in the making of the upcoming title in the series, Metal Gear: Survive during the Tokyo Game Show. When asked about the game and his part in it, he claimed that he knew nothing about it. He went on to say that Metal Gear is more about political friction and espionage, and it has nothing to with zombies. Koji Shinkawa, the Character Designer for Kojima Productions’ first title, Death Stranding also weighed in, saying that Kojima hadn’t mentioned or talked about Survive even once, and for him Metal Gear is all about the two-legged walking mecha. Kojima also revealed a few details about his upcoming project, with a tentative release date prior to the Tokyo Olympics (to be held in 2020). He went on to teas...
Kojima Shares Progress On Death Stranding, Compiling 30k Shots In One Day
While no official release date for Kojima’s next project, Death Stranding has been confirmed, rumor has it that the game already has a set release date it is targeting for itself. In any case, fans cannot seem to wait to get their hands on the game, and we wonder what Kojima Productions plans to bring to us outside the Metal Gear world. But you can rest assured that it is indeed a work in progress. Hideo Kojima shared multiple photos on Twitter, sharing the progress and confirming that the people are at it in earnest. Apparently, they compiled about 30,000 shots in a single day, and oh, Mads Mikkelsen from Hannibal also made an appearance. That’s cool, isn’t it? It also leads us to believe that Mikkelsen may be making a contribution to the game, by either lending his voic...
Metal Gear Survive Announced, Konami Continues The Series After Kojima
This year’s Gamescom has seen quite a lot of announcements, among them being something that caught us a bit off-guard. Konami announced the next title in the Metal Gear series, called Metal Gear Survive, set for release for PC, Xbox One and PS 4 in 2017. The game is directly follows the events of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, and will feature the members of Militaires Sans Frontières who were not killed in the previous game. They are transported through a wormhole to an alternate universe, where they face in battle a force of crystalline zombies and, as it seems, at least one Metal Gear itself. “Metal Gear Survive will offer a fresh take on the series’ famed stealth elements,” Konami European president, Tomotada Tashiro said in a press release, “but within a unique co-op se...
Kojima Trolls Fans with PT and Metal Gear Solid V Chapter 3
In addition to making immersive and story driven games, Hideo Kojima loves playing mind games with his fans and setting up elaborate ruses. Add to that the fact that fans have been quite disappointed lately due to, let’s call it closure with some of his recent work – the cancelled, much awaited horror themed PT, or the long fabled chapter 3 in Metal Gear Solid V – and it won’t be surprising to know that Kojima has played yet another prank on the gaming community. Fans have always had a tendency to read into things, especially when it’s regarding Kojima, but hey, it’s not like the guy doesn’t fuel the fire. Take a look at the tweet below for instance. 本日の小島監督。 Hideo Kojima today. pic.twitter.com/4pOSO6LiWi — Ayako (Touchy!) (@Kaizerkunkun) August 1,...
Kojima Production’s Mascot Getting A Line Of Action Figures
Nothing says extravagant like Hideo Kojima. If you don’t believe us, check this out: Ludens, the space explorer who represents Kojima Productions’ spirit, is getting his own collection of action figures. And no, this has absolutely nothing to do with with the much awaited Death Stranding, it’s nothing but the logo for Kojima Productions. The toys are being made by three companies: the Good Smile Company who is making a cute Nendoroid version; Max Factor who is doing a 1:12 scale Figma replica while 1000Toys is in the process of making an expensive looking 1:6 scale action figure, complete with LED lights. All of these look pretty cool if you ask us. Also, featured on San Diego Comic Con was Kojima Productions’ own “logo movie”, which will supposed to pla...
Ludens, The Icon Of Kojima Productions
After his departure from Konami, Hideo Kojima has set up his own production studio, named Kojima Productions. While very few is yet known about the game that he is working on, and only a logo was available to take guesses at, Kojima has now revealed Ludence/Ludens, the mascot of the new studio, and said that it is the icon for Kojima Productions. This is his quote as available on Twitter: “LUDENS, the icon of Kojima Productions. We’ll deliver THE NEW PLAY in THE NEW FUTURE with the cutting-edge equipment, technology, & the frontier spirit. The gear he’s wearing is the extra-vehicular activity(EVA) creative suit.” This could be indicative of his upcoming game as well, though we might have wait to have any concrete details. All we know so far is that it’s a new franchise and a Play...
Hideo Kojima Might Work With Norman Reedus Soon
Ever since it was announced that Guillermo del Toro would be appearing with Hideo Kojima at the 2016 DICE Summit, fans have been anticipating some hints as to what Kojima’s first post-Konami game will be. Kojima hasn’t revealed many concrete details about the game just yet, but it is certainly a possibility that whatever it is will star The Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus, who was previously working with Kojima and del Toro on the ill-fated Silent Hills. Kojima recently met with Reedus to discuss the newly reborn Kojima Productions. The details of that meeting are not public knowledge, but one has to imagine that it involved the two of them at the very least discussing ideas for a potential video game project to work on together. While that’s just speculation at this point, comments Kojim...
P.T. Returns in This Silent Hills Trailer
So I don’t think a whole lot of you have actually played this game. I happened to be over at my friend’s place who had played this game once and said it was the scariest game he had ever played and in fact competed with a few scary movies he had watched. Now keep in mind this friend of mine watches all sorts of crap from Japanese thrillers to English movies to, to cartoons…basically everything except Hindi movies. And I don’t like anything scary, it’s just like spicy food, I mean what’s the point, they both just make you cry at the end of it. Anyway, I figured it’s a game, how bad could it be? Man I could not have been more wrong. From the moment your character gets off the floor to the very end of the teaser where you get startled by this freaky ass girl, I was shitting myself. I sat ther...