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If you squint, and look sideways, in the mirror…<\/h2>

Mysterious developer Blue Box Games has dropped a new tweet<\/a> regarding its upcoming release, Abandoned<\/a>,<\/em> igniting fresh rumors among gaming’s conspiracy theorists that the studio’s new title is, in fact, a Konami project related to either Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Hideo Kojima<\/em>, or \u2014 I kid thee not\u2014 all three combined.<\/p>

To be honest, Blue Box didn’t really help extinguish this fire by including a blurred-out image of a face that just happens to be wearing an eye patch \u2014 an item iconically adorned by not only Metal Gear<\/em> protagonist Big Boss but also several other characters within the Metal Gear<\/em> universe. Twitter users have also taken a single, similarly blurred line of text to read multiple ways, including “Welcome to Silent Hills<\/em>” and even “Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro.” Two sentences that, quite honestly, could not look less like each other. The power of suggestion is a dangerous mistress.<\/p>

Whatever the truth, this all works out neatly for Blue Box Games, which has received a lot of attention for its upcoming next-gen survival title. I can’t really blame the rumor-mongers. The studio came out of nowhere, Abandoned<\/em> is shrouded in mystery, is a PS5 exclusive release, and is now teasing followers with a character literally wearing an eye patch<\/em>. Regardless, Blue Box Games insists that it has nothing to do with<\/a> Konami, Hideo Kojima, or the Metal Gear<\/em> franchise. At this stage, it feels like the rumors and theories will continue beyond Abandoned<\/em>‘s marketing, and well into its release. I mean, it took getting Death Stranding<\/em> actually into the public’s hands before some people admitted it wasn’t “Metal Gear Solid VI”, such is the determination of those who reside Through the Looking Glass.<\/p>

Abandoned<\/em> is currently in development for PS5.<\/p>

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