Hideo Kojima Conspiracy Theory Ends With Tears - Kotaku

A week ago, most people didn’t know that Abandoned was an upcoming indie horror game for the PS5, or that it was being made by Dutch developer Blue Box Game Studios.

Now both are at the heart of gaming’s latest conspiracy theory that Metal Gear designer Hideo Kojima is secretly involved and Abandoned is actually a new Silent Hill.

There’s just one small hitch: Blue Box Games keeps saying none of it is true.

was an elaborate announcement that Kojima and film director Guillermo del Toro were working on a new Silent Hill game together.

That project, along with Kojima’s relationship with Silent Hill owners Konami ended up falling apart—but the fandom around Kojima and his fake-outs has only increased.

The Blue Box situation sparked a post that blew up on the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit that collected all sorts of so-called data points proving Silent Hills was not dead.

These ranged from noting that Konami shop was teasing new Silent Hill merchandise, to weird coincidences involving Abandoned’s game director, Hasan Kahraman.

Back in February VGC reported that “Konami has already outsourced a Silent Hill project to a prominent Japanese developer, with a reveal due this summer.” Kojima himself also has a track record for pulling weird shit like this.

Blue Box had a history of failed Kickstarter campaigns going back years, he noted, making it seem that much less likely that it was truly a front for Kojima’s latest unannounced game.

“[A]fter several hours going down the rabbit hole I am no longer 100% convinced it’s Kojima (could very well be someone crafting all these coincidences to build buzz),” he wrote on Twitter.

Depending on who you ask, this either made it clear that the studio was just bullshitting around to build hype for its low-budget horror game, or it was just more evidence that Kojima was involved.

The kicker is that Blue Box itself told everyone Kojima was not involved in the project as far back as April 2021.

Some fans still want to believe of course, their faith now resting on a delayed trailer for the game that the developer has teased on Twitter?