Designer Hideo Kojima and Get Out director Jordan Peele are teaming up for “a totally new style of game” called Od.

Having menaced us with the most intense post-apocalyptic parcel delivery simulator ever made with Death Stranding, designer Hideo Kojima has announced his latest project. It’s called Od, and it’s being made in collaboration with Jordan Peele, the director of such genre delights as Get Out, Us and Nope.

A teaser trailer, unveiled at last night’s The Game Awards, shows actors Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schaffer and the legendary reciting a distinctly unsettling phrase straight down the virtual lens. We don’t exactly know what a hungry purple dinosaur (Barney?) or a kind, zingy fox has to do with anything, but the promo’s undoubtedly a showcase for the latest generation of performance capture technology – we really are creeping towards an age of photo-real digital actors.

Kojima has...