Kojima's OD 'Still in Development' Despite Xbox Game Cancellations

Hideo Kojima's Xbox crippled project, OD, is inactive successful development, contempt Xbox's caller cancellations of a fig of projects some interior and external.

This comes from Bloomberg writer Jason Schreier, who posted connected BlueSky that OD was 'still successful development' arsenic confirmed to him by a Microsoft spokesperson. He shared this connected the heels of reporting that Xbox was stopping improvement connected Avalanche Studios' Contraband, a collaboration that was announced 4 years ago.

While OD's presumption specifically wasn't peculiarly successful question, Xbox's caller drawstring of cancellations person led galore to interest implicit immoderate crippled we haven't seen for much than a twelvemonth oregon two. After a wide layoff past period that saw 9,100 jobs eliminated Microsoft-wide, we learned that aggregate games had been canceled, including Everwild and Perfect Dark. A collaboration with Romero Games was besides pulled.

Kojima's admittedly been a spot quiescent astir OD lately, successful a determination that wouldn't beryllium taken arsenic thing different than focused crippled improvement if the circumstances weren't truthful concerning. He archetypal announced an Xbox collaboration successful November of 2022, past officially revealed OD on with respective of its prima formed members astatine The Game Awards 2023. We learned astatine the clip Kojima was moving with filmmaker Jordan Peele to make immoderate benignant of fearfulness acquisition “no 1 has seen before.”

Since then, we haven't heard overmuch much astir the presumption of OD, though Kojima did reassuringly springiness an interrogation precocious past period successful which helium mentioned helium was inactive moving connected it.

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