Kojima's 'Physint' Game: Canceled by Sony, Taken Over by Microsoft

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    "title": "Kojima's 'Physint' Game: Canceled by Sony, Taken Over by Microsoft - Le Matin",
    "excerpt": "Japanese creator Hideo Kojima has not indicated whether his game 'Physint' will be exclusive to Microsoft machines. Japanese creator Hideo Kojima, author of the Metal Gear saga, announced on Thursday that he is now working with American Microsoft on his next spy game, 'Physint', after the 'unexpected' cancellation of the title previously developed with Japanese Sony. 'In mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received a notice from PlayStation Studios informing us of the cancellation of the Physint project,' wrote the 63-year-old developer on the social network X. 'Determined to keep this project alive, we spent the last three months relentlessly searching for a new partner,' Hideo Kojima continued, stating that he finally found a partnership with Microsoft's gaming division.Developed by his studio Kojima Productions, created in 2015 after his departure from Konami, 'Physint' is announced as Kojima's return to the 'Metal Gear'-style spy video games that made him famous in the 1990s. The success of 'Metal Gear Solid' (1998 in Japan), the third installment in the series and the first in 3D, is inseparable from that of the first PlayStation, and the saga has long been associated with Sony consoles. Since the release of the last installment 'Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain' in 2015, the Japanese creator has worked on a new series, Death Stranding, an exploration game in a...",
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