Hideo Kojima of Kojima Productions is going viral once again, this time for one of his older predictions about where the future of digital gaming is bound to go. A foremost auteur of the gaming industry, Kojima has been in charge of his own gaming studio, Kojima Productions, since 2015, though it also existed as a Konami subsidiary since 2005.
While Metal Gear Solid is the man's most ubiquitous offering, Kojima has done way more than that. Death Stranding has been his studio's most prominent recent release, with the mysterious horror-focused OD the next big thing. While Kojima's games have always been well regarded, strange as they sometimes were, one of the things fans like about them the most is how prophetic some of their aspects can be. In Metal Gear Solid 2, for example, Kojima predicted the spreading of fake news and social media bubbles, and his track record is now set to continue in the context of digital gaming.
Hideo Kojima reveals that he's been thinking about death, and has come up with a plan to preserve his ideas in the event that he passes away.
As Kojima put it half a decade ago, "We will not...
