Hideo Kojima's apparent fusion of filmmaking and game development, Physint, is just one of the casualties of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strikes, which, incredibly, began in August 2024 and will continue in 2025. Kojima is hopeful casting can resume this year, and OD, which the auteur is developing for Xbox Game Studios, has also been affected by the strike.
Kojima himself provided the update in a lengthy New Year's Eve post on X, recalling that 2024 was a year with both ups and downs for the developer. Progress was made on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and the relentlessly energetic Kojima wrote essays for Japanese publications anan and Nikkei, appeared on the radio, as well as organised the "Hidemys"; Hideo's take on the Emmy Awards, we suppose, except for books published in Japan.
HideoTube continues, and preparations for the live-action Death Stranding film with A24 got underway. Of course, Kojima continued to expertly comment on films and books via social media, regularly announcing the latest celebrity to be scanned into his growing menagerie.