Hideo Kojima announces surreal new game, Death Stranding

Creator of the Metal Gear series is back with a new title starring Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus - and a disappearing baby

Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series, wandered onto the stage halfway through Sony's E3 press conference, said "I'm back", then lapped up the long and warm applause. After his mysterious removal from Konami, the famed game director set up his own studio and later revealed a partnership with Sony - but it wasn't until Monday night in Los Angeles that fans knew the result of the deal.

And to be honest, they know little more now, apart from the fact that the first title from the post-Metal Gear Kojima Productions will be called Death Stranding and stars Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus (who previously worked with Kojima on an abandoned Silent Hill sequel). The oblique teaser for the game has the Reedus character waking naked on a beach, clutching a baby, which then seems to disappear, replaced by a black tar-like substance - which then appears as a child's hand prints in the sand. All around the human characters are dead sea animals.