{"id":900466,"date":"2026-09-18T13:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900466\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:16:15","slug":"hideo-kojimas-physint-moves-to-xbox-with-bill-skarsgard-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900466\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima\u2019s Physint Moves to Xbox With Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the video game’s industry\u2019s most celebrated auteurs taking his talents\u2014and his mysterious project, titled Physint\u2014from one major platform to its direct rival.<\/p>\n

Yes, we\u2019re talking about Hideo Kojima, Kojima Productions, and how their upcoming game went from PlayStation\u2014where it was meant to be an exclusive\u2014to Xbox. In case you missed all of this and how it went down recently, here\u2019s your handy catch-up on Kojima, Physint, and the drama surrounding the defection to Xbox.<\/p>\n

First, the news: On the morning of September 17, Xbox woke up the East Coast with a presentation of its slate at the 2026 Tokyo Game Show. Saved for last was Physint, a new game from famed developer and known cinema obsessive Hideo Kojima, who created the Metal Gear Solid games and the star-studded sci-fi series Death Stranding. Kojima provided updates on his next two games, OD and Physint, including a major Hollywood actor as the main character in Physint.<\/p>\n

First, the other game: OD. Exclusive to Xbox since the start of development, Kojima said work on OD is coming along. \u201cPerformance capture and ADR recording, which had been paused during the SAG strike, resumed this year, and production is proceeding on schedule,\u201d he said in the video. The horror game stars Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schaefer, and the late Udo Kier (in a posthumous appearance), and is co-written by filmmaker Jordan Peele. OD currently doesn\u2019t have a release date, but it is on tap to be the very next game from Kojima Productions.<\/p>\n

And now, Physint. It\u2019s another new video game from Kojima Productions and is set to release after OD. While details regarding the story, its characters, and its universe are shrouded in mystery, Kojima himself confirmed the game is an original IP that is poised to be a spiritual successor of sorts to Metal Gear Solid.<\/p>\n

Physint was first announced in January 2024<\/a> as a PlayStation exclusive, when the brand gave Kojima a major spotlight during its State of Play presentation. During the reveal, Kojima described it as \u201ca next-generation action espionage game.\u201d Although Kojima didn\u2019t reference Metal Gear Solid by name, he cited his extensive history with Sony in \u201cgrow[ing] the espionage genre together for almost 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

For two and a half years, all seemed sunny between Kojima and PlayStation. But on September 9, 2026, Kojima posted on Twitter\/X<\/a> that the fate of Physint had changed. \u201cAs confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project,\u201d Kojima wrote. \u201cPHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that same tweet, Kojima announced that Xbox\u2014already a partner on OD\u2014had stepped up for Physint. \u201cIn the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in XBOX a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of PHYSINT, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

On September 11, Bloomberg<\/a>\u2019s Jason Schreier reported that a \u201cmajor factor\u201d behind PlayStation and Sony\u2019s shock decision was the low sales of the studio\u2019s previous two titles, Death Stranding and Death Stranding 2. The games \u201cdidn\u2019t meet PlayStation\u2019s revenue expectations\u201d according to Bloomberg\u2019s anonymous sources.<\/p>\n

But Death Stranding wasn\u2019t the only cause behind Physint\u2019s demise at PlayStation. Bloomberg wrote that development \u201chas also missed deadlines and was on track to be well over budget\u201d while its release was still \u201cyears away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wrote Schreier: \u201cPlayStation was reluctant to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in another game that wouldn\u2019t remain permanently exclusive to the company\u2019s own hardware … Kojima\u2019s closely held studio, Kojima Productions, retained ownership of the franchises.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September 2025, actors Don Lee, Charlee Fraser, and Minami Hamabe were announced as the first actors attached to Physint. Now, during the Xbox TGS showcase, Kojima announced actor Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd has joined them, in the role of the still-unnamed main character and player avatar for Physint. \u201cWe are both long-time fans of each other\u2019s work, and we\u2019ve decided to embark on this new adventure together,\u201d Kojima said in the announcement. \u201cThere are still many exciting cast announcements to come in the future, so please stay tuned for further updates.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still plenty to learn about both OD and Physint. While the former sees Kojima wading into horror (as he once almost did in his canceled Silent Hill game), the latter sees Kojima going back to his Metal Gear Solid origins to deliver a spy-oriented action game. Earlier this year, IO Interactive released 007 First Light\u2014based on the James Bond franchise\u2014to critical and commercial acclaim. But Kojima\u2019s unsubtle political themes and frequent interest in future technologies will surely make Physint its own beast in the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the video game’s industry\u2019s most celebrated auteurs taking his talents\u2014and his mysterious project, titled Physint\u2014from one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,782,311577,784,238527,783,311576,273948,61],"class_list":["post-900466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-26eded63-bd49-45e1-8bc3-326cb9a28c69","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-true","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-hideo-kojimas-u003ciu003cemphysintu003c-emu003c-i-looks-like-a-blockbuster","tag-sponsored-false","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}