Sony has been approved a patent for player-influenced gaming environments alike to Death Stranding, suggesting that the studio and Hideo Kojima have more plans for the universe – perhaps with the long-rumoured Death Stranding 2.The patent, submitted by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2019, was granted yesterday (December 7).
It credits Hideo Kojima as the inventor, and a summary of the patent describes the invention as a “terrain radar and gradual building of a route in a virtual environment of a video game”.Going into more detail, the summary describes it as “a method for influencing a gaming world of a video game” and plots out a way for online players to affect the terrain of single-player worlds, which are delivered to localised.
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