Kojima Productions to mark 10th anniversary with Tokyo live event

Kojima Productions will mark its 10th anniversary with a live event in Tokyo on September 23 that will feature special guests and offer "a glimpse into future projects," the studio said. The in-person celebration, titled Beyond The Strand, will be hosted by Hideo Kojima at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills and run for approximately two and a half hours.

The studio said tickets for the event will go on sale September 2 and will be distributed through a lottery system, with reports indicating a price of about 7,700 yen per ticket. Kojima Productions has also said the event will be streamed, though the timing and viewing details for the livestream have been described inconsistently in early reports and are expected to be clarified by the studio closer to the date.

The announcement was made on the 10th anniversary of Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain, the last game Kojima released while at Konami, and comes months after Kojima Productions released Death Stranding 2 On the Beach. Kojima has been publicly balancing postlaunch updates for that title with work on two announced projects: OD, a horror game being developed with Microsoft that involves filmmaker Jordan Peele, and Physint, a new...