Coz he's twice the awesome: Kojima getting Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC

Posted Feb 17, 2009 at 5:47AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Gunpei Yokoi, Hideo Kojima, Richard Garriott, Will Wright

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Word has just gone out that living legend Hideo Kojima will be given this high distinction at the 2009 Game Developers Choice Awards. Kojima's so good at what he does that he only needs one lifetime to get his second lifetime achievement award. The first one he received was awarded by the MTV Game Awards last year.

And Is it any wonder? If Metal Gear wasn't already the obvious reason, the guy was behind Snatcher, Policenauts, and Zone of the Enders. The event director of the GDC says of Kojima:

For years, Hideo KojimaÂ’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 Â‘fourth wall,Â’ KojimaÂ’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.

That's a mighty fine list of names Kojima's entering into (except maybe .... but anyway), and he fully deserves the honor. Kojima will be giving his keynote lecture, "Solid Game Design: Making the 'Impossible' Possible" after the awards ceremony of the GDC, which will be on March 26.

Via Gamasutra

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The article info on the front page made me laugh.

Coincidentally I JUST beat Metal Gear Solid 4.. The last one I played was the one for the original Playstation. I am inspired (and confused) enough to go and get the two that were on the Playstation 2 so I can have some idea what I just played through.. No video game has ever confused me so much. But man, I loved the game. The part where you fight as the Metal Gear could spawn a whole robot fighting game (waiitttt a minute..!!)

# ... — landon05 2009-02-17 08:48

......spoil.......

# This man is such a genius that... — papajag 2009-02-17 09:09

I would sleep with him with my girlfriend watching and video taping at the same time.

# That's almost as gay as.... — BigGulps 2009-02-17 09:49

the way Hideo Kojima is holding a copy of MGS4 in that picture.

# Uhh, Isaac — PS3Boy 2009-02-17 10:01

Kojima will be giving his keynote lecture, "Solid Game Design: Make -------> (any)

# Hehe thanks — Guest 2009-02-17 10:13

On the one hand, I want to kick myself for not catching that. On the other hand, I'm so glad that people actually read that far into the article ;)

The corrections should pop up in a bit ^^

# wow — Hekynn 2009-02-17 11:37

wtg Kojima! You do come up with some kick ass stuff man

# @ BigGulps — Gamester101 2009-02-17 13:23

Blasphemy!

# OMG! — eaferrari24 2009-02-17 17:34

"That's almost as gay as....

the way Hideo Kojima is holding a copy of MGS4 in that picture."

that was soo funny and soo true! ahahaha

# excise me? — Binary 2009-02-18 22:34

why this on a 360 section?

# lol — Binary 2009-02-19 07:14

it looks like he dont give a ***** about MGS anymore

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