Hideo Kojima has a fascinating career that spans the course of some 34 years; he is perhaps best known as the mastermind behind the Metal Gear series, all of which he has either designed, produced, directed, written, or some combination of the four. He is widely considered to be a groundbreaking auteur of video games. He has long been associated with the Konami corporation, but he departed in 2015 after nearly thirty years to pursue other interests . Since then, he has re-formed his company, Kojima Productions , as an independent video game development studio partnered with Sony Computer Entertainment . The first game that Kojima Productions released after their departure from Konami was the open-world action game Death Stranding , first in November 2019 as a PlayStation exclusive, then for PC on July 14th, 2020.

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