Kojima’s OD ‘Still in Development’ Despite Xbox Game Cancellations

Hideo Kojima’s Xbox game project, OD, is still in development, despite Xbox’s recent cancellations of a number of projects both internal and external.

This comes from Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, who posted on BlueSky that OD was ‘still in development’ as confirmed to him by a Microsoft spokesperson. He shared this on the heels of reporting that Xbox was stopping development on Avalanche Studios’ Contraband, a collaboration that was announced four years ago.

While OD’s status specifically wasn’t particularly in question, Xbox’s recent string of cancellations have led many to concern over any game we haven’t seen for more than a year or two. After a mass layoff last month that saw 9,100 jobs eliminated Microsoft-wide, we learned that multiple games had been canceled, including Everwild and Perfect Dark. A collaboration with Romero Games was also pulled.

Kojima’s admittedly been a bit quiet about OD lately, in a move that wouldn’t be taken as anything other than focused game development if the circumstances weren’t so concerning. He first announced an Xbox collaboration in November of 2022, then officially revealed OD along with several of its star cast members at The Game Awards 2023. We learned at the time Kojima was working with filmmaker Jordan Peele to create some sort of horror experience “no one has seen before.”

Since then, we haven’t heard much more about the status of OD, though Kojima did reassuringly give an interview late last month in which he mentioned he was still working on it.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.