At this year's E3 conference in Los Angeles, Sony invited famed game developer Hideo Kojima on the stage during the company's PlayStation 4 press conference to announce the latest from Kojima Productions, curiously called Death Stranding.

In the trailer, a quote from William Blake introduces a strange world: "To see a world in a grain of sand / and a heaven in a wildflower. / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / and eternity in an hour." Then we see a naked man with one handcuff around his wrist pick up a naked, crying baby and begin to cry, but the baby quickly disappears leaving only black oil on the man's hands. He watches oily baby footsteps (but no baby) walk away from him, and he gets up and walks across a desolate beach peppered with dead whales. And that's the end of the trailer.

The man clearly looks like that guy from The Walking Dead, and sure enough, Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon on the AMC TV show, is listed in the Kojima Productions credits.

While the trailer is pretty ambiguous, the game's teaser has been hotly anticipated by fans since Kojima left game publisher Konami in December 2015. The Metal Gear Solid creator has a fervent fan base, and his announcement that he would start his own company with his small Kojima Productions team was almost expected, given the strained relationship Kojima reportedly had with Konami by 2015.

Kojima Productions has said that its first game will be PS4 exclusive and developed in collaboration with PlayStation, but subsequent games may or may not be exclusive to Sony's console. Today's news included an announcement that major Sony developer Mark Cerny is on the dev team, however, so its Sony exclusivity may be a little more likely at this point.