Hermen Hulst of PlayStation Studios with Hideo Kojima.
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It’s good to be Kojima | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

As I watched this week’s trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, I had to wonder again if Kojima is a genius or a madman. And I wonder whether Sony is ingenious or crazy to bankroll his next big visions.

I don’t know if we’ll answer those questions. But one thing is clear. In the crazy world of games, it’s good to be Kojima. I sometimes wonder if we’re in a simulated universe, one where Kojima is looking down laughing at the comedy while we admire some of the craziest things that he can serve to us. Like the WandaVision TV show, we’re stuck on the Kojima channel.

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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.