Hideo Kojima, maker of Metal Gear Solid series.
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Hideo Kojima gets Hall of Fame honors from the video game industry

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Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear Series games and who recently parted ways with Japanese publisher Konami, was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the DICE Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars for games.

In an event at the DICE Summit at Las Vegas, Kojima was honored by his peers at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Kojima finished his work on Metal Gear Solid V and left Konami to create a new startup, Kojima Productions, which is making a game for Sony.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.