Among the many exciting announcements at last night’s The Game Awards (including a resurrection of Savage Entertainment’s Jurassic Park: Survival, a third-person action game of Marvel’s Blade and the announcement of Twisted Metal Season 2), the news that’s got genre fans most excited is the announcement that Metal Gear Solid maestro Hideo Kojima has teamed up with modern horror icon Jordan Peele (Get Out, Nope) to create a new horror gaming title for the Xbox Series known as OD.
A typically bizarre teaser for OD played at last night’s awards, showing stars Sophia Lillis (It, Gretel and Hansel), Hunter Schafer (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Tilman Singer’s upcoming Cuckoo) and the legendary Udo Kier (Blood for Dracula, Shadow of the Vampire) reciting the phrase “The hungry purple dinosaur ate the kind, zingy fox, the jabbering crab, and the mad whale and started vending and quacking”, which contains every phonetic sound in the English language.
Kojima and Peele both took to the stage to excited applause, where Kojima teased OD‘s as-of-now unnamed collaborators working on the project as “The Avengers”.
In a press release, Kojima revealed a little more about the game’s ambitious heights:
We are working with Xbox Game Studios and their cloud gaming technology to take on the challenge of creating a very unique, immersive, and totally new style of game—or rather, a new form of media.
OD is rumoured to be Kojima’s long-awaited horror project Overdose, although there hasn’t been concrete confirmation of this (and no sign of Margaret Qualley) just yet.
OD will be Kojima’s first straight up horror project since working on the tragically-cancelled Silent Hills (and the infamously terrifying trailer, P.T.), which would’ve seen him team up with Guillermo del Toro, Norman Reedus and legendary mangaka Junji Ito. While Silent Hills was unceremoniously cancelled by Konami, Kojima’s 2019 Death Stranding would go on to be a hit and reportedly make use of themes that would’ve been present in the game, although many horror fans are still rightfully sore about it. Hopefully, OD will soothe some of that pain.
Below is the effectively enigmatic teaser for OD, that promises it’s for “all the players and screamers” – and we don’t doubt that for a second. Stay tuned for all the updates on OD as and when we get them!
