Hideo Kojima tweeted Thursday to say goodbye to the office he used to develop Death Stranding.
"Today is the day we say goodbye to the entrance, the Ludens corridor and the kitchen, which is our home for more than five years," he wrote next to a photo of the vacant office.
Like other kojima's social media posts, his tweet immediately raised a lot of questions.
Kojima Studios said in October 2020 that they were hiring for a new game project that has yet to be announced. Companies may want to move to a larger house, or move to a new office that better meets their requirements.
Kojima founded Kojima Studios in 2005, but was controlled by Konami at the time, where he worked for more than 30 years and created the Metal Gear Solid series. After separating from Konami in 2015, he transformed Kojima Studios into an independent studio, supported by Sony Interactive Entertainment SIE. The studio's first game after the makeover was Death Stranding, released for the PS4 in 2019. The PC version will be available in the summer of 2020. "Director's Cut" swept the PS5 last year and was released to PCs on March 30.
Last November, Kojima Studios announced that it had established a TV and movie studio in Los Angeles, and according to information released by Kojima, work here will officially begin this year.
At the start of 2022, Kojima proposed his plans for the coming year, including a "radical" new project, as well as experimentation with video and radio (he launched a podcast in February).
Earlier this month, Kojima received the Media Arts Department Newcomer Award from the Agency for Cultural Affairs.