2009, ISBN: 9781156807972

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Clive Barker, Hideo Kojima, Warren Ellis, Amy Hennig, Rhianna Pratchett, Jerry Holkins, Jeremiah Slaczka, Sam Lake, Marc Laidlaw, Dan Houser, John Zuur Platten, Richard Dansky, Katherine Lawrence, Flint Dille, Kazushige Nojima, Drew Karpyshyn, Jonathan Blow, Ellen Beeman, Bill Kunkel, Erik Wolpaw, Corey Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Clive Barker, Hideo Kojima, Warren Ellis, Amy Hennig, Rhianna Pratchett, Jerry Holkins, Jeremiah Slaczka, Sam Lake, Marc Laidlaw, Dan Houser, John Zuur Platten, Richard Dansky, Katherine Lawrence, Flint Dille, Kazushige Nojima, Drew Karpyshyn, Jonathan Blow, Ellen Beeman, Bill Kunkel, Erik Wolpaw, Corey May, Kieron O'hara, R.J. Berg. Excerpt: Hideo Kojima Kojima Hideo, born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer originally employed at Konami. Formerly the vice president of Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, he is currently the Executive Corporate Officer Director of Kojima Productions. He is the creator and director of a number of successful games, including the Metal Gear series, Snatcher, and Policenauts and also produced both the Zone of the Enders and Boktai series. Kojima is consistently named by fans and industry experts alike as being one of the most influential and innovative video game directors and writers of all time. Newsweek named Hideo Kojima as one of the top ten people of 2002. In 2008, Next-Gen placed him #7 in their list of "Hot 100 Developer 2008." In early 2009, IGN placed him sixth in their Top 100 Game Creators of All Time list. He has also been awarded the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award handed to a game designer at the 2008 MTV Game Awards and was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Game Developers Conference. Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1963, Kojima moved to western Japan at the age of three. Kojima has said that early on in his life he often had to deal with death. When he was little the Kojima family moved to a small city called Shiraski. Just as quickly, his family soon moved to Kawanishi, Hygo in the Kansai region. Kojima has noted that growing up he was a latchkey kid, oft. More: Books, , Video-Game-Writers~~Books-Llc, 999999999, Video Game Writers, Books Llc, 1156807972, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<