{"id":378178,"date":"2026-09-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=378178"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:25:11","slug":"physint-adds-bill-skarsgard-kojima-reveals-new-lead-at-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/physint-adds-bill-skarsgard-kojima-reveals-new-lead-at-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"PHYSINT adds Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd: Kojima reveals new lead at Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Xbox\u2019s Tokyo Game Show 2026 presentation, Hideo Kojima confirmed that <strong>Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd will lead<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/physint.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">PHYSINT<\/a>, his upcoming action-espionage game.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kojima said PHYSINT, which he\u2019s framing as a spiritual successor to <a href=\"https:\/\/metal-gear-solid-master-collection-vol-1.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Metal Gear Solid<\/a>, is making \u201c<strong>steady progress<\/strong>.\u201d He added that costume fittings, scans, and camera tests with Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd and Charlee Fraser left him feeling very confident. That sounds like a game that\u2019s moved past the early buzz and into real pr<a href=\"https:\/\/amd-driver-autodetect.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">OD<\/a>uction.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skarsg\u00e5rd joins Don Lee, Minami Hamabe, and Charlee Fraser. More casting is still in progress, along with talent scans and collaborations with outside creators. Kojima is calling PHYSINT a <strong>next-generation action-espionage game<\/strong>, and he\u2019s pitching it as the payoff to more than 40 years of work, under the tagline \u201cThe Next Cold War Begins.\u201d Expect the stealth, tension, and cinematic style people associate with his earlier spy games. Yoji Shinkawa is handling character and mechanical design.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019ve been keeping a close eye on Kojima\u2019s projects, there\u2019s more here than just the casting news. Reports say Sony walked away because of <strong>budget<\/strong> concerns, milestones, and overall viability. Xbox is now said to be backing PHYSINT as a premium partnership that could stretch into <a href=\"https:\/\/xbox-game-pass.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Game Pass<\/a>, film, and TV, and probably includes OD as well. Separate reports also say OD\/KNOCK resurfaced, with performance capture and voice recording back on schedule after the SAG-AFTRA disruption.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, PHYSINT is broadly expected to land on Xbox and PC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Xbox\u2019s Tokyo Game Show 2026 presentation, Hideo Kojima confirmed that Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd will lead PHYSINT, his upcoming action-espionage game. Kojima said PHYSINT, which he\u2019s framing as a spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid, is making \u201csteady progress.\u201d He added that costume fittings, scans, and camera tests with Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd and Charlee Fraser left him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/physint-adds-bill-skarsgard-kojima-reveals-new-lead-at-xbox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PHYSINT adds Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd: Kojima reveals new lead at Xbox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9351,"featured_media":378177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-378178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378179,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378178\/revisions\/378179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378178"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378178"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378178"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}