Physint: Kojima’s New Espionage Opera Proves the World Still Loves a Good Wiretap By Dave’s Locker International Desk If you were hoping 2024 would finally be the year humanity outgrew its addiction to clandestine snooping, Hideo Kojima has some unfortunate news. Fresh off Death Stranding’s existential parcel-delivery simulator—and Norman Reedus’s increasingly sentient beard—the Tokyo-based auteur…
Hideo Kojima—part auteur, part walking meme, full-time corporate enigma—has just announced “physint,” a project whose name sounds like a rejected pharmaceutical for social anxiety. In the usual Tokyo livestream, complete with moody lighting and the faint hum of existential dread, Kojima teased a “new action-espionage” game that will somehow be both interactive entertainment and, if…
TOKYO—Hideo Kojima, the man who once hid the meaning of life inside a 90-minute cut-scene, has transcended mere game design to become a geopolitical weather vane. While Washington and Beijing trade tariff threats like Pokémon cards, Kojima quietly ships “Director’s Cuts” that feel more predictive than the CIA’s morning brief. If you want to know…
