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Videogame industry legend, programming technology guru and id Software (DOOM, Quake) co-founder John Carmack is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Game Developers Choice Awards for his outstanding contributions to the art and science of games, following in the footsteps of prolific industry stars Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima and Richard Garriott.
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognises “the career and achievements of developers who have made an indelible impact on the craft of game development,” and with Carmack’s more than two decade history of making games, working on breakthrough technology and his contributions to popularising the first-person shooter genre with titles such as Wolfenstein, DOOM and Quake, as well as his efforts in continually pushing the bounds of graphics technology, you could say he’s made an “indelible impact” on game development.
Event Director of the Game Developers Conference Meggan Scavio said of Carmack and the award:
Konami have been kind enough to release an extensive transcript of a controlled question and answer session with Metal Gear Solid and Kojima Productions boss, Hideo Kojima.
The Q&A discusses various aspects of the upcoming PSP game, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, as well the meaning behind that Metal Gear themed countdown to E3.
Enjoy all of that below:
At the Konami press conference yesterday, Hideo Kojima (he of Metal Gear Solid fame) confirmed that he and the team at Kojima Productions will indeed be providing production support to Madrid-based developer, MercurySteam, as they work on a next-generation Castlevania game, Lords of Shadow.
Additionally, Kojima announced development work on something called Metal Gear Arcade, which is essentially Metal Gear Online repurposed for coin-op arcade play and using 3D goggles. Metal Gear Arcade will be out in Japan later this year.
These two announced games then take the tally of Kojima’s current projects up to four, with Metal Gear Solid: Rising (for home consoles) and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (for the PSP).
Also commenting on the series of teasers found on the Kojima Productions website over the last few weeks, Kojima said that the clouds represent “what the current status nowadays [is] in our real lives,” continuing on to say that the entertainment business is “here to clear up this storm, and we need to work together.”
Inspiring words, Kojima! Watch the debut trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow below:
After two weeks of dank, gloomy weather on the Kojima Productions teaser website, the sun has finally broken through the clouds, shining down on the peaceful, scenic view below, with what sounds like the beach in the background, but it could also just be the wind rustling through the trees.
Does this confirm that Sunny, the character from Metal Gear Solid 4, will make an appearance in whatever it is that Kojima Productions have been teasing this whole time?
Another symbol has appeared on the site as well, which looks like an ‘8,’ but could just as easily be a ‘B’ or a zero… but it’s probably an eight:
It seems the moment Metal Gear fans have been waiting for has finally arrived - one of the key characters from the Metal Gear Solid universe, Raiden, has appeared on the Kojima Productions teaser website.
The teaser website has been featuring updates over the last two weeks, all alluding to a big new announcement that studio head, Hideo Kojima, will make at this year’s E3, running next week.
The much rumoured appearance of Raiden has led to yet another round of rampant speculation over what the announcement could possibly be, although we’ll probably need to wait until E3 to know the true answer.
The latest update to the on-going series of teasers on the Kojima Productions’s ‘Next’ site doesn’t really reveal anything more than the last update, only now the weather has turned even worse than before, with rain pouring down.
The lightning strikes continue to reveal mysterious letters, now with the addition of a ‘P’ and an ‘R’ into the mix, as well as the accompanying letters from last time. The timer has stopped, though, now simply sitting on a bunch of zeros…
Ho-ho, but what’s this? After staring at the scene for a little longer than is healthy, a lightning strike revealed a face… it was pretty scary.
Is that Big Boss?
The ongoing mystery that is the Kojima Productions teaser website has been updated recently with new clues that may point to a disappointing conclusion.
On the website, the weather in the original scene depicted has deteriorated to the point of gloomy, rainy weather and frequent lightning strikes. After each major lightning strike, a new letter is revealed, with four letters appearing in total – S, e, E and 3… or even 5, @, E, 3.
The letters seem to appear randomly, but one possible reading of them would be in that order, which could spell out ‘SeE3,’ or ‘See E3…’ or even ‘5 @ E3,’ meaning ‘Metal Gear Solid 5 at E3.’
Do we have to wait that long for an announcement on Kojima Productions’ next game, or will the next website update clue us in a bit further? Time will tell.
Check out all of the images from the website below:
Kojima Productions’ announcement teaser site has been updated with some stormy weather, lightning strikes and a timer counting down to roughly three and a half days until another tease (possibly on Friday), or a maybe solid announcement this time.
Don’t count on it though, as words doing the rounds are that there will be another three such teases, comprising four days each, coincidentally leading up to the beginning of E3 on June 2nd, where Kojima said his next game would be announced.
Also, whenever a lightning strike hits the screen, the number ‘5’ can be seen briefly before it fades away again… or is it an ‘S’? What could it all mean? Metal Gear Solid 5? Metal Gear Solid: S… omething?
Oh, Kojima Productions, you’re such a tease!
Update 1
Check out the latest addition to the Kojima Productions teaser site over here.
Update 2
Have a look at the latest update to the Kojima Productions teaser site, featuring the visage of Big Boss, over here.
Following on from the Kojima Productions’ teaser advertisement that appeared in Famitsu recently, a new teaser website has been put up on Konami’s site featuring the same cloudy, veld-like scene as the print ad, only now the clouds are animated.
People have been reporting seeing images in the clouds, similar to those found in the print ad, but it’s difficult to make out. Can you see anything?
The big reveal and/or announcement from Kojima Productions will be out this Monday (May 18th).
Kojima Productions, the development studio behind the more recent entries to the Metal Gear Solid franchise, and headed up by industry legend Hideo Kojima, have an announcement to make, and they want everybody to know about it.
The latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu, has a double-page spread announcing an upcoming announcement, heading straight to your eyes on the 18th of May from Kojima Productions and Konami (as evidenced by the logos at the top-left and bottom-right corners of the pages.
Also something to take notice of on the page are images that have been formed in the clouds. Can you see the profile of Old Snake’s face? And, maybe possibly, the outline of an Xbox 360 controller making up the head of that profile?
Rumour mongering at its finest!
The amazingly hilarious group of comedians over at Mega64 have finally released their Metal Gear Solid 4 skit that was shown during the Game Developers Choice Awards, featuring non other than the Metal Gear master himself, Hideo Kojima, plus another guest appearance…
No more spoilers! Watch the video below for maximum hilarity!
Here is a three-part interview with Hideo Kojima, head-honcho behind the Metal Gear franchise, Lifetime Achievement Award winner at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards, as well as the keynote speaker at the Game Developers Conference this year.
As always, his comments and anecdotes are highly interesting, and even inspiring, as in this first interview segment, Kojima talks about other genres he would like to pursue, his trip to Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward, and his thoughts on making the impossible possible. Enjoy:
The second and third parts of the interview with Hideo Kojima follow below:
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.
It was revealed yesterday that Konami and Kojima Productions legend, Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear Solid series of games (and others) will deliver the keynote address at the 2009 Game Developers Conference (GDC).
Kojima’s keynote, entitled “Solid Game Design: Making the ‘Impossible’ Possible,” will focus on “conquering various development obstacles with creative game design, using the driving game design philosophies behind the Metal Gear series as reference.” This keynote address will apparently be the first time Kojima will attend the GDC. Event director of the GDC, Meggan Scavio said:
“The Game Developers Conference has invited Hideo Kojima to keynote every year for as long as I can remember, so we couldn’t be more excited that, at long last, he feels that it is time for him to address the game development community.
“The anticipation is already huge to see how one of the community’s most revered and elusive creators will inspire attendees to further push the limits of game development.”
The Game Developers Conference is the largest professional industry event dedicated to the creation of games of all types on all platforms, providing a central forum for learning, inspiration and networking in the videogames industry. This year, the GDC takes place over March 23-27 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
In an interview with Japanese game magazine, Famitsu, Metal Gear and Kojima Productions boss, Hideo Kojima, has spoken out about the game design practices currently in use in Japan versus the more advanced thinking going on at Western game developers. Kojima commented on the West’s use of hi-definition gaming in moving games forward:
“Game design up to now has been about making rules. It was like a card game; there were lots of things that weren’t possible and had to be cut. With hi-def, the more real it gets, the less instruction you need to give, so preoccupying yourself with making rules seems silly. Western developers have realized this, but Japanese ones are still preoccupied with making these rules.”
Kojima also spoke about Japan’s largely insular entertainment market by saying:
“The US and European marketplace are far better balanced… Japan makes all their own books and movies and music. You can’t export entertainment made by Japanese people in the Japanese language, so it’s all made with the sort of budgets that guarantee profit within the Japanese marketplace only.”
Kojima also revealed that he’s currently addicted to Left 4 Dead, a game people tell him “would never work in Japan… [Laughing] Maybe I should quit being Japanese.”
Source: Gamezine.co.uk
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