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Action Games Hideo Kojima used "an AI machine learning rig" to painstakingly download his celebrity friends to Death Stranding 2, but he wasn't happy with it: "I think I want to make it more realistic"

Live Action Movies A24 head wanted Hideo Kojima to helm their upcoming Death Stranding movie: "Are you sure you don’t want to direct?”

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RPGs Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's success impressed Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima so much he invited its devs over to his studio to sign copies of the French JRPG

Action Games Hideo Kojima initially had other ideas for Death Stranding 2's peculiar mannequin Charlie, including making them an invisible man, glowing silhouette, or "a 2D anime-style figure"

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Action Games Hideo Kojima reveals secret Death Stranding 2 cutscene was only half of the motion capture shoot, which ended with him surprising Elle Fanning with a cake on her actual birthday

Sci-Fi Movies Death Stranding movie aims to capture the "soul" of the games, but will be its own original story – and even Hideo Kojima won't be involved "too much"

Action Games Hideo Kojima enjoys the trip of a lifetime to Brazil to promote Death Stranding 2, meeting a doppelganger of himself, probably eating a cake modeled after himself, and more

Action Games It's no wonder Death Stranding 2's hyper-realistic visuals are so good as Hideo Kojima shares behind-the-scenes footage from a "live-action lighting workshop" from over 2 years ago

Open World Games Hideo Kojima didn't actually respond to Death Stranding 2 fan feedback by "deliberately" making it weirder, he only made it "more playable and fun"

Action Games Hideo Kojima clears up "misunderstanding" around Death Stranding 2, says cutscenes "are not pre-rendered, they're basically all in real-time" and that's been the case since Metal Gear Solid

Action Games Todd Howard apparently "rolled his eyes" at the thought of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's protagonist, but the game's lead says it "wouldn't have been what it is" without the Last of Us star

Action Games 007 First Light officially casts Dexter actor Patrick Gibson as James Bond, months after everyone already figured that out

Open World Games Hideo Kojima says he's already written a concept for Death Stranding 3, but he wants someone else to make it

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