Another day, another maddeningly vague Hideo Kojima tease

pcgamer.com:

Hideo Kojima has announced… something? Or he's announced that he's going to announce something, but the announcement is its own announcement of, oh god stop the internet I want to get off. For a creator that made a game about information overload and the surfeit of junk in contemporary digital life, he doesn't exactly practice what he preaches.

Kojima has previously announced that the studio will be showing off a VR hallway at TGS (don't ask), then recently a new website launched with a blanked-out face and the phrase «Who Am I?» superimposed atop it. Now our boy's at it again, tweeting out the same face: 

The answer to “WHO” at TGS will be in the next “WHERE”. pic.twitter.com/y6Y6l7gAxoOctober 5, 2022

It comes with some maddeningly on-brand text, which is both English and semi-gibberish:  «The answer to 'WHO' at TGS will be in the next 'WHERE'.» WHAT does that mean and WHEN?!

Clear as mud, though the implication seems to be that Kojima's going to reveal the identity (of Elle Fanning, most fans reckon) at one of the big year-end shows: given his relationship with Geoff Keighley, I'd stick a fiver on it being at The Game Awards.

The silhouetted face may well not be Fanning, of course: but it does look an awful lot like her (here's one fan comparing images while huffing the copium). Fanning's list of projects is as long as your arm, but one element of note is that she's previously worked with Kojima buddy and director Nicholas Winding Refn, who is the mocap actor for Heartman in Death Stranding.

Whether it's Fanning or not, the other unanswered question is whether this is the beginning of the hype for Death Stranding 2 (which is in the works) or the game that Kojima Productions is making in partnership with Microsoft. The