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Kojima Launches English Version Of Production Weblog

Konami's Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has announced an English-language translation of his official weblog on the Kojima Productions website, following th...

Simon Carless, Blogger

October 21, 2005

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Konami's Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has announced an English-language translation of his official weblog on the Kojima Productions website, following the Japanese debut of his online production diary last month. The English-language version of 'Hideoblog', located on Konami of Japan's site, is gradually being translated to be brought up to date with Kojima's current entries, but a number of entries have already been translated. Among them is an account of his recent interview with Sin City creator Frank Miller, of which he says: "Miller is more than just an artist. He is an innovator and pioneer", as well as a longer discussion of the weapons training classes Kojima Productions is receiving from military expert Mr. Mori to prepare them for development on Metal Gear Solid 4. Of this, Kojima mentions: "World peace? In Japan we are happy to not think about such difficult matters. Yet we are going to deliver MGS to our audience all over the world; we cannot use false information as the basis of our creation, even it if is only a game. We cannot hide our faces from reality."

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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