It’s been announced that, at this year’s Game Developers Conference, the creator of the Metal Gear series, Hideo Kojima, will received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developer’s Choice Awards.

Kojima, who is to make his debut GDC appearance as well as deliver the 2009 GDC keynote address, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his career and achievements over the last twenty years of his time in the industry, and his contributions to the growth of game development. Event director of the Game Developers Conference, Meggan Scavio said:

“For years, Hideo Kojima’s contributions to game development have broken new ground and inspired the community to think about creating games in never-before-imagined ways.

“From giving birth to the stealth action game genre to showing game makers how to interact with their players by breaking the ‘fourth wall,’ Kojima’s achievements make him an obvious choice for an award that in previous years has gone to luminaries including Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Richard Garriott, Eugene Jarvis, Mark Cerny, Gunpei Yokoi, Yuji Naka and Will Wright.”

The 2009 Game Developers Conference will run from March 23rd to March 27th at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.