{"id":720162,"date":"2026-06-23T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720162\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:25:08","slug":"kojima-says-only-xbox-and-phil-spencer-understood-od-his-new-horror-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720162\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojima Says Only Xbox And Phil Spencer Understood OD, His New Horror Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima<\/a> has been working on a horror game, OD,<\/a> for Xbox for a few years now. Despite a trailer and some teases, we still don\u2019t know much about what it really is. And in a recent interview, Kojima said that only Xbox was interested in whatever he is cooking up.<\/p>\n

Hideo Kojima spoke to Entertainment Weekly<\/a> as part of a larger Xbox 25th anniversary cover feature and told the outlet that with OD, he wanted to do something \u201cnew\u201d and \u201cdifferent.\u201d According to the famous game designer and director, he\u2019s been working on the concept for OD since around the same time he started developing Death Stranding. He claims that OD features a \u201cnew game system\u201d that \u201cno one has ever seen before.\u201d And apparently his plans for OD were so strange and new that every publisher and game company around passed. Until, that is, he talked to Xbox and its former boss, Phil Spencer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pitched to many people, to the big companies, and also to the up-and-coming companies,\u201d said Kojima. \u201cAll of them said the same thing. They said that I\u2019m crazy, and that they really don\u2019t understand the concept\u2014that they will not be able to do it.\u201d But Spencer got it, apparently, and signed the game under Xbox. And new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told EW that she found OD to be a \u201cdeeply moving game.\u201d\u00a0 So it seems Kojima has Xbox\u2019s support for the foreseeable future as he and his team wrap up development on OD.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to go beyond the limit of the \u2018scariness\u2019 that other games had reached,\u201d said Kojima. And interestingly, he claims that if the game is too scary for people, there is a system in place that can help them push through.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a single-player game, and I wanted to make it as scary as possible. But for those that might stop playing when it gets too scary, I have thought of a system that will allow them to keep going. I can\u2019t say much more, because it\u2019ll give too much of a hint on the system, and I could get in trouble for saying too much!\u201d<\/p>\n

OD currently doesn\u2019t have a release date. The game stars Sophia Lillis and Hunter Schafer. Jordan Peele, the director behind Nope and Us,<\/a> is involved in the game\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n

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