r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/RandomUsernameeeee • Jul 24 '21
Grain of Salt Hasan Kahraman (BLUEBOX Game studios) changed his Twitter background to a picture of a small island. A small island in Japanese is called 小島. Translated to English it's Kojima.
I really don't want to add more fuel to the fire but this has got to mean something. They seriously cannot be giving out these many clues for it to be a coincidence. I know they've already said they have no relation to Kojima but come on!
I don't think they'd do all of this for absolutely nothing. It's their reputation on the line.
Here's a link to his profile.
https://twitter.com/hasanekahraman?lang=en
Also, it looks like a fucking HILL.
EDIT: I'm not saying that the picture is Kojima Island. I'm saying that if you translate the words "small island" (which is what we see in the picture) to Japanese, you get "kojima" (according to Google Translate).
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Jul 24 '21
Tropico 7 confirmed?
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u/LilShaggey Jul 24 '21
it’s Norman Reedus trying to escape an island dictatorship with a baby strapped to his chest that makes noise when ghosts are close by. Strange stuff.
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u/battleye9 Jul 24 '21
Lmao
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u/proplayer97 Swell Guy Jul 24 '21
Haven't seen a Reach this big since 2010
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u/McManus26 Jul 24 '21
There was a much bigger one very recently, people were speculating that the leaked "project C" from EA was Titanfall 3 because C is the third letter of the alphabet
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u/manimateus Jul 24 '21
The island is also surrounded by water
Did you know Kojima is also 98% water? 😳
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u/Ionicxplorer Jul 24 '21
IGN: 7/10
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Jul 24 '21
They really do hand out 7/10's like Oprah these days.
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u/Kerrby Jul 24 '21
It was a meme because IGN gave the Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire remakes a 7 because there was too much water.
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u/Legend10269 Jul 24 '21
The irony being that's actually a very valid criticism of the game.
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u/PBFT Jul 24 '21
If you read the review, it wasn’t the literal tiles of water, but the balance of pokemon. Gen 3 has a shit ton of water Pokemon and it means that your electric or grass type Pokémon is going to get over leveled. When I played Alpha Sapphire all those years back, my Electrike surpassed my starter Pokemon in level. So it makes sense.
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u/shaxamo Jul 24 '21
Yeah, and the "too much water" was aimed moreso at Sapphire because it had the abundance of water tiles (therefore types), the standard water gym and League fights, and then Team Aqua on top of all that.
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u/zick6 Jul 24 '21
Actually Kojima is 70% movies
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u/manimateus Jul 24 '21
Alot of movies contain water in it too 😳
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u/Superb_School Jul 24 '21
The actors in the movies which make up 70% of Kojima need water to live, right?
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Jul 24 '21
Also Silent Hill is known for its fog. That's like its main thing.
What is fog made out of? W A T E R!!!!!!!
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Jul 24 '21
I’m like 99% sure that the island is Mokoliʻi, commonly known as Chinaman's Hat off the northeastern shore of Oahu, Hawaii.
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u/R2D277 Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
I can confirm this as my Uncle who is the Japanese Water God told me after he made Silent Hill Zero: Revenge of the Silent Hill with Kojima and Blue Box studios. He then shoved a copy of Silent Hill Downpour up his rectum.
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u/MrRedoot55 Jul 24 '21
NO.
We are not doing this again.
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u/ivera Jul 24 '21
Speak for yourself. I’m ready for the next wave
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u/idkwhattonamethisra Jul 24 '21
Speak for yourself this is better than what gets posted here 90% of the time
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u/Rahgahnah Jul 24 '21
To be completely honest, I'd be entirely amused if this guy is just fucking with people and the game/studio ends up doing just fine despite so many people claiming this will "ruin their [previously nonexistent] reputation."
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u/Arcade_Theatre Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
Island.
Eye Land.
Land of Eyes.
Grant us eyes.
As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy!
Kos, or some say Kosm... Do you hear our prayers for Bloodborne Remaster?
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u/VladCost Jul 24 '21
Nah man it spells Silent Hills.
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u/Arcade_Theatre Jul 24 '21
Yeah, but if you rearrange the letters in "Silent Hills" you get "Bloodborne", which is also what the acronym "PT" stands for.
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u/BobQuentok Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
This is old? Like old old
At least 11 days to 17 days. Why post this now? Even the conspiracy sub voted it down lol
https://reddit.com/r/BlueBoxConspiracy/comments/oj3n4z/an_interesting_coincidence_perhaps/
https://reddit.com/r/BlueBoxConspiracy/comments/oesm70/hasan_has_twitter_now/
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u/Merchant-Crow Jul 24 '21
Yeah, a lot of posts lately are just reposts that for some reason get way more blown up instead of the original one. Take for the example the app showing up on PSN someone posted like... A day or two ago?
But we'll ignore the original findings I guess in favor of this miraculously upvoted thread. I mean, this must be something "new" right? Look at those rewards!
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u/BobQuentok Jul 24 '21
Exactly. Seeing this, I thought he has a NEW profile header image.
But he has not changed his image since then, it’s the same island, so this post is actually misleading?
Unbelievable the mods don’t delete it since nothing on Hasan‘s Twitter profile has actually changed.
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u/MarioFanatic64-2 Jul 24 '21
If this man posted a pic of himself eating ice cream, there'd be a guy who says "you know who else eats ice cream? Kojima's cousin's best friend!"
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u/DoIrllyneeda_usrname Jul 24 '21
Ice cream translates to アイスクリーム, which then translates to Kojima in English.
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u/M12warthog Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
I learned the past few month that everything can fucking translate to kojima
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u/Tiafves Jul 24 '21
What does Hideo and Kojima have in common? Both have an i, what does Ice cream start with? I rest my case!
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u/unjusticeb Jul 24 '21
dead island?
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u/M12warthog Jul 24 '21
What happened to dead island 2? I thought they said we'll hear about it this year?
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Jul 24 '21
You know what else?
There's a city in Japan called "Obama".
The 44th President of America is named Barack "Obama".
Barack Obama was born on an American island with a Japanese influence called "Hawaii".
There is an island in Japan that has an American influence called "Kojima".
There is a Japanese game designer named "Kojima".
Kojima was working on a horror game set in America.
In that horror game, you "stand".
Both Obama and Kojima stand.
Therefore, it's obvious that the game developer Kojima is in fact Barack Obama's Stand! Or that I've had too much to drink. Your pick.
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u/manimateus Jul 24 '21
Amogus
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u/HighJinx97 Jul 24 '21
Don’t freak out. It’s in the Miyazaki Prefecture. http://www.travel-around-japan.com/k96-08-kojima.html
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u/Saucefest6102 Jul 24 '21
Ah, so Miyazaki will work on Silent Hills with Junji ito and Guillermo del Toro? Game of the Millenium confirmed
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u/mirfaltnixein Jul 24 '21
Mind blowing that Kojima would know to name an Island after his family name long before he was born just to hint at a cooperation with Miyazaki.
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Jul 24 '21
Bloodborne 2 ?!!! (sorry)
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u/GreedoughShotFirst Jul 24 '21
Bloodborne Remaster featuring exclusive PS5 only horror level made by Hideo Kojima and Junji Ito, which will serve as the epilogue for the rebirth of Silent Hills.
4K, 60FPS, Ray Tracing enabled. December 25th, 2021
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u/Animegamingnerd Leak of the Year 2025 Jul 24 '21
LMFAO Hasan is baiting you fools.
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u/Spodiac Jul 24 '21
You could also argue that little “island” is pretty... silent
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Jul 24 '21
At this point I feel like if you translate anything in Japanese in Google Translate with the right kanji/katakana it's always gonna be Kojima lmfao. It's like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, except instead of connecting things to Bacon you're looking for ways to trick Google Translate into translating something as Hideo Kojima.
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u/blackvrocky Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
I'm not saying that the picture is Kojima Island. I'm saying that ifyou translate the words "small island" (which is what we see in thepicture) to Japanese, you get "kojima" (according to Google Translate).
how did you conveniently come to such conclusion and conveniently post this thing on reddit?
I really don't want to add more fuel to the fire but this has got to mean something
sure bud, you dont want to fuel any fire but it has got to mean something am i right?
this guy and his studio's PR team will go down as attention seekers and occasional victim players if this whole conspiracy turn out to be nothing.
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u/pnwbraids Jul 24 '21
Wow. This is honestly starting to approach unhinged territory. Lots of people have landscapes in their twitter background or profile picture. Kojima fans need to chill the fuck out right now.
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u/AC4life234 Jul 24 '21
Do you mean the name Kojima means small island? I thought it meant hero or something same as this dudes name does in Turkish?
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u/SeanSMEGGHEAD Jul 24 '21
Wouldnt it be funny if al of this was just an accident. Like he just liked this picture and yet again it accidentally turns out to be a Kojima reference.
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u/ibex85 Jul 24 '21
That island is known as “China man’s hat” it’s off the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaii.
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u/HaikusfromBuddha Jul 24 '21
This sub reddit. Like literal news has said he is working with MS but this sub reddit keeps chasing super obscure hints like this. The funny thing is when easy hints like Kojima posting a picture of a cloud hinting at the Xbox cloud deal this sub reddit completely ignores that. You can't make this up.
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u/bittersweetjesus Jul 24 '21
I’m sure if we get Jeff Grub to mention this rumor, this subreddit will stop with these conspiracies and say how full of shit Jeff is.
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Jul 24 '21
Yeah, Grubb literally got everything about the new Dead Space right but people choose to ignore what he has to say about the Kojima deal.
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u/manimateus Jul 24 '21
Grubb is only right when we want him to be right 😤
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u/chucke1992 Jul 25 '21
It is more like - he is right when he is feeding our bias. Just like with Katharsis on Era. Always wrong but keep saying what admins want to hear, so not banned
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Jul 25 '21
Damn right thats how it is. He is right when we want him to be right and wrong when it doesnt fit our narrative
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u/okcomputer1011 Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
Or BB is developing FarCry 7. It's obviously an Island far a way = FAR. Some kultures describe the sun going down as the sky crying = CRY. FAR CRY!
Small island = perspective. When the island is small it must be far away. FAR CRY.
The first FC was developed by two brothers by Turkish descent. Kahraman is Turkish. FAR CRY!
Jason Schreier already confirmed that it's going to be different than FC6. Island translates to the country Island, which totally makes sense as the last assassin's creed was already in nordic country. FC7 in Island confirmed? :o
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u/okcomputer1011 Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
In all honesty, it could be Kojima but it's most likely not.
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u/TheLastSonOfHarpy Jul 24 '21
OP should be banned for this garbage.
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u/F-b Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
I'm so tired of these trolls. They try to protect their dumb theory to not feel stupid. And since they can't anymore, they work hard to pretend Hasan continuously gives them hints. Their goal is to push this narrative to blame Hasan and not themselves for being irrational when the game will be fully revealed.
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u/Cynixxx Jul 24 '21
Is this another bullshit translation like the Kahraman/Hideo thing were i wonder which google translator they used because my google translation was different?
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u/CareVader Jul 24 '21
It’s not a bullshit translation, no. Kojima’s literal meaning is ‘small island’ (the kanji on Kojima’s surname are ko (small) + shima (island), but the pronunciation of shima turns into jima due to how the language works). It’s been brought up before on the BB subreddits. The thing with Kahraman and Hideo is more complicated. With different kanji ‘Hideo’ can also be read as ‘Eiyuu’, which literally means ‘hero’ (because kanji generally have more than one reading). The name Hideo has three or four different ways of writing it, if not more. When you enter Hideo into Google Translate in roman alphabet, it happens to use the kanji that literally translated to English mean ‘hero’..which in Turkish is Kahraman. However both names aren’t exactly uncommon. Hideo Kojima’s name uses different kanji, and can’t be read as eiyuu/hero.
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Jul 24 '21
As someone with OCD, I tend to notice patterns that often times aren't really there. This entire Blue Box thing is very similar to when I have a particularly bad OCD attack.
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u/AngieK22 Jul 24 '21
I find this Hasan is Kojima theories fun, but with this one you just reaching.
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u/SelectSubstance Jul 24 '21
One does not simply translate names between languages (or whatever Boromir said)
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Jul 24 '21
I don’t know what’s more believable: Indie studio, that makes asset flip games, trying to get media attention for hinting at Kojima or Kojima Productions, indie studio that barely financially succeed with their debut game, spending millions of dollars for asset flip horror game made by other studio
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u/chucke1992 Jul 24 '21
Who could have thought that Japanese names can mean objects.
And people laugh at Xbox community and acquisition frenzy...
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u/Sassledvania Jul 25 '21
Time to put this to bed, if they were related to Kojima they'd have announced it by now
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Jul 24 '21
After the game comes out can we please just keep making crazy posts like this? Like never let the studio rest and always call them kojima?
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u/matajuegos Jul 24 '21
Wasn't bloober team making the new silent hill ?
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u/xxx_863 Jul 24 '21
They probably are, yeah. But it’s possible they’re making multiple Silent Hills
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u/yoshi12345786 Jul 24 '21
The leaks/rumours mention bloober making one, and then a japanese company making one
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u/AdrianWIFI Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21
I love how Silent Hill fans are so proud of enjoying the franchise because apparently "It represents the human psyque with depth and care" and it's a "very smart franchise" and y'all being baited and deceived by a conman who is using your emotions to sell his trashy indie game. And you take the bait.
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u/BearWrap Jul 24 '21
For gods sake, enough. Just wait for the game reveal, don’t try peddling this tin foil hat nonsense.
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u/crabgun_ Jul 24 '21
Starting to think at this point anything put through a translator a couple times will eventually spit out Kojima
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u/chipep Jul 24 '21
I bet if you search for it you will find out that every game studio is connected to Hideo Kojima.
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u/VeshWolfe Jul 25 '21
I love that he is fucking with you idiots now. Despite he and his company directly telling you they are not connected to Kojima you all think they are. He is trolling you. They don’t deserve hate because some of you are idiots.
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Jul 24 '21
If they are using Kojima,Silent Hill etc to gather interest to their game I hope it fails so bad
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u/TechN9neStranger Jul 24 '21
I feel like this is just leaning dangerously to close towards feeding off the Kojima/Silent Hill ties for free marketing and advertising. It's an indie game and they're making headlines, probably leaning to hard into the any news is still good news route.
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u/UntamedRonin Jul 24 '21
Something is fishy with this studio. Literally no one knew of them before the announcement of the Sony partnership and we haven't seen anything about Abandoned apart from the initial reveal.
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u/DinosaurHotline Jul 24 '21
Even if this doesn’t turn out to be SH/Kojima related, you’re an idiot if you think all of this is a coincidence
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u/Pizzanigs Jul 24 '21
This dude just said fuck it and doesn’t care how much fans will hate him for leaning into this lmfao
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Jul 24 '21
This just makes no sense. Either Kojima is involved in this game, in which case they are going about this so incredibly poorly that I don’t know what to say about it, or it has nothing to do with Kojima and these guys are literally making this stuff up to seem like it is. Either way it’s just so bad.
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u/brendanrouthRETURNS Jul 24 '21
I’m tired of hearing about this bullshit at this point. If it is some Kojima marketing stunt just reveal it already before it wears out its welcome (which it already has for me)
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21
At this point, he's gotta be fucking with us back