Hideo Kojima

Hideo Kojima (小島秀夫 Kojima Hideo, born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer at Konami. Formerly the vice president of Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, he is currently the head of Kojima Productions, a new team devoted to creative game development leaving behind all the business and administrative decision making. He is the creator and director of a number of successful games, including the Metal Gear series, Snatcher, and Policenauts. He has also produced both the Zone of the Enders and the polemic Boktai series.

External links

• Konami Entertainment (Japanese)
• Kojima Productions
• Hideo Kojima Blog (Japanese)
• A summary of his blog in English as of 9/27/05 (by IGN)
• Hideo Kojima at the Internet Movie Database
• An interview with Hideo Kojima
• Junker HQ - Information on Kojima and his work.
• IGN's Hideo Kojima Interview at the 2005 Game Developers Conference