You may have heard that video game director Hideo Kojima is working on a new project. The first major event was the announcement of actor Elle Fanning for the new project, along with Kojima's "WHO IS WHERE" and "TGS -> 'WHO -> 'ELLE / PAX -> 'WHERE' ->? / ??? →'????' →???" .

No, I didn't make that last one up, and as you might expect, some of the internet's most talented game detectives have been digging up and stringing together all of Director Kojima's nonsense. And now we have yet another announcement from our mischievous friend. The main announcement is that actor Shioli Kutsuna (perhaps best known for her role in "Deadpool 2") will be joining Elle Fanning in the new project, which is the same as Kojima casting his former favorite actor in anything.

In Kutsuna's published photo, her face is illuminated by red lighting and she is seen saying "WHERE AM I?" In the words of my colleague Ted Litchfield, all I want to know at this point is where is my aspirin? The post also includes the text "A Hideo Kojima game" and the actor's name.

But there is a little trick to this. There is a second layer on the poster, a pitch black image with the words "HOW COME?" and a small silhouette of something that looks like a tentacle with fins.

Two Kojima Productions games are known: one is a collaboration with Microsoft, which Kojima modestly considers more of a "new medium" than a game. The latter is known thanks to Norman Reedus, who must have irritated Kojima considerably when he pontificated about its existence in May (Kojima responded by telling Reedus to "go to his private room" and making in-jokes about the game).

There are several spoilers for enemies and themes in Death Stranding. The silhouette of this tentacled creature suggests that we are looking at a sequel to Death Stranding. While the game has been defined to some extent by the global pandemic that broke out shortly after its release, Death Stranding is by no means a game about pandemics. It is a slightly clumsy parable about humanity's inability to act as one in the face of a global crisis like climate change, and by the end of the game, it becomes so explicit that it eventually blasts a giant whale made of oil.

The depths of the ocean and the death and decay of marine life is one of the main visual themes of the game, repeated throughout in an ingenious mechanical manner. In other words, if the project involves something vaguely squidgy and sinister, then Death Stranding 2: Electric Boogaloo has the edge. This is just speculation, of course, and it could be something different. For example, there have long been rumors that Kojima Productions is working on a horror project called "Overdose," but take that with a grain of salt.

Hopefully we'll know soon, because even as a Kojima lover, I'd rather have some red meat to look forward to than more pictures of actors along with 20 questions.