Kojima Productions is relocating after five years

Kojima Productions is relocating after five years at its Tokyo-based office.

Studio boss Hideo Kojima bid farewell to the office where Death Stranding was made in a series of tweets on Thursday.

“Today is the day we say goodbye to the entrance, the Ludens hallway, and the kitchen that have been our home for a little over five years,” he posted alongside images of the vacated office.

As is common with Kojima’s social media comments, his tweet raised more questions than it did answers.

Kojima Productions said in October 2020 that it was staffing up for a new, still unannounced game project. It’s possible the company may be relocating to a larger home, or simply to a new office that better meets its requirements.

Kojima founded Kojima Productions in 2005, under the control of Konami, where he worked for over 30 years and created the Metal Gear series.

After splitting from Konami in 2015 he reformed Kojima Productions as an independent studio, backed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

The company’s first game was 2019’s Death Stranding for PS4. A PC version was released in summer 2020. The Director’s Cut hit PS5 last year and was released for PC on March 30.

Last November Kojima Productions announced it had established a TV and film studio based in Los Angeles, and according to Kojima its work will begin in earnest this year.

At the start of 2022, Kojima teased his plans for the year ahead, including a “radical” new project and experimentation with video and radio (he launched a podcast in February).

Earlier this month Kojima was awarded a prestigious award for fine arts from the Japanese government’s Agency of Cultural Affairs.