"Beyond the Strand" is the 10th-anniversary exhibition celebrating Kojima Productions, the studio founded by video game veteran and Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima. The exhibition is taking place in Tokyo, but lucky fans are posting pictures online, including some that reveal new details about Kojima's upcoming game, Physint.
Physint will mark Kojima's return to the action-espionage genre. It features an ensemble cast, including Bill Skarsgård, Charlee Fraser, Ma Dong-seok, and Minami Hamabe. In past interviews, Kojima said the game will blend video game elements with others drawn from film and television. He also admitted he wanted to return to the stealth-action genre because of popular demand from fans of the Metal Gear franchise. Pictures from the Beyond the Strand exhibition confirmed this beyond any doubt.
The title of Physint may sound a bit obscure to the average Kojima fan, but it's actually very easy to explain. In espionage jargon, the various forms of intelligence collection are categorized with similar terms: Humint for intelligence collected by human agents; Imint for imagery intelligence (collected by satellites, for example); Elint for electronic surveillance; Sigint for signals intelligence, and so on. A document on display at the KojiPro exhibition in Tokyo has the words "A new Cold War begins" printed on the cover, followed by a list of words used to describe intelligence-collection methods.
This internal document includes concept art for the game and was circulated only among the cast and staff. Only the cover is visible to exhibition visitors, but it's still quite an interesting tease.
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