It's been a long two years, but if you can cast your mind back to April of 2021, you may recall the internet was abuzz following the announcement of a new horror game that looked awfully P.T-like. It was April 7th, to be exact, and a new PlayStation blog post had just announced Abandoned, a "first-person horror survival shooter set in a highly detailed open world environment", as per the game's director, Hasan Kahraman.Developed by Blue Box Game Studios, Abandoned was revealed as a PlayStation 5 exclusive targeting a Q4 2021 release, which always seemed like an optimistic proposition considering the same post stated that Abandoned was "at an early development stage," so no gameplay could be shown. That means Blue Box had around 4 to 6 months to go from early development stages to full release. From the get-go, something seemed fishy about Abandoned.But Abandoned's hopeful release window was just the beginning of what would become a whirlwind of controversy, rumours, conspiracy theories, and some good-old fashioned delusional craziness.READ MORE: Flashlight Weapons Suck In Games. Can Alan Wake 2 Fix That?Shortly after Abandoned was announced via the PlayStation website, a Reddit post appeared, suggesting that Abandoned and its creator, Hasan Kahraman, was actually just a facade for a new Hideo Kojima game. The connections grew and grew over the course of many months, but the initial post references Kahraman and Kojima sharing the same initials, Blue Box potentially being a Death Stranding easter egg due to the letters 'BB', and the fact that this is exactly the kind of oddball innocent mischief that Kojima tends to get up to.Back in 2012, Kojima secretly revealed Metal Gear Solid V as simply "The Phantom Pain" under a new studio known as Moby Dick Studio. The game was supposedly led by Joakim Mogren, but fans quickly worked out that Mogren's first name was an anagram for Kojima. So, when you take into account that Kojima has actually done this before, it's understandable for fans to speculate that he might be doing it again.But then, less than 24 hours after the announcement of Abandoned, a statement was issued via Blue Box's official website, shutting down the theories making connections between Abandoned and Hideo Kojima. "We have no association with Hideo Kojima nor do we claim to have any association nor was it our intention to claim such a statement. We are a small group of developers working on a passionate title we wanted to work on for a long time." the statement read.But once the internet gets its claws stuck into something, it doesn't like to let go. IGN then published an interview with Kahraman on April 8th - still less than 24 hours after the game's announcement - where he continued to express that neither he nor Blue Box has any form of affiliation with renowned video game auter, Hideo Kojima.READ MORE: The Stardew Valley Dev's Lack Of Greed Blows My MindAt this point in time, very little was actually known about Abandoned. PlayStation's blog post teased a different kind of first-person shooter compared to the modern-day norm, stating that Abandoned "requires you to hide and plan every shot before pulling the trigger." Kahraman went on to reveal further details about the game to IGN, "We wanted to make a game that feels real. Like when reloading, you get to see the whole animation, while in combat. Or when you get hit, you really need to stop the bleeding in order to continue fighting."So, the game itself certainly sounds like an interesting mix of genres, which Kahraman describes as a "first-person horror survival shooter" in the announcement post. But sadly, Abandoned's controversy isn't just confined to crazy fan theories. After a pretty wild 24 hours for Blue Box, it was all quiet until May 30th, when the studio announced via a now-deleted tweet that Abandoned would be receiving a real-time trailer app on June 20th. The app was apparently going to reveal new gameplay trailers that were rendered in real-time, thanks to the hardware of the PlayStation 5.Despite the continued denial by Kahraman, a large number of fans continued to speculate on the connection between Abandoned and Hideo Kojima. Then, to make things even worse, another now-deleted tweet by Blue Box hinted at the name of Abandoned actually being Silent Hill. The tweet read, "Guess the name: Abandoned = (First letter S, Last letter L). Reveal closing in..." For the unaware, Hideo Kojima was working on a new Silent Hill game with movie director Guillermo del Toro years earlier, but the project was canceled in 2015 after Kojima split ways with publisher Konami.READ MORE: My First Level In Remnant 2 Was Basically Bloodborne, For Better And WorseAs you can imagine, it didn't take long for Blue Box to apologise for the misunderstanding and attempt to set the record straight. In a tweet that actually hasn't been deleted, Blue Box said, "We wanted to set things straight. We have no relations with Konami. Silent Hill is owned by Konami. We do not have any relations with Hideo Kojima. It was never our intention to tease the name as Silent Hill. We sincerely apologize for this."Blue Box then announced that the previously announced real-time app was being delayed to June 25 due to "localization issues." Fair enough, these things happen. But when June 25 rolled around, a video update from Hasan appeared on the Blue Box Twitter account, announcing that the app still wasn't ready and would be pushed to the beginning of August.So August rolls around, and the app launches. Well, kind of...it's broken. So, Blue Box patches the app a few days later. After almost a month of back-and-forth, is it finally time to check out these real-time trailers Blue Box had promised us? No, the app consisted of a 4-second clip of a man walking, which had already been posted to Blue Box's Twitter account before the launch of the app. As you can imagine, fans weren't happy.