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Hideo Kojima left Konami/KojiPro on October 9th, non-compete ends in December

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Enter the Dragon Punch

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http://www.gamespot.com/articles/hideo-kojima-has-left-konami-and-kojima-production/1100-6431536/
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-did-hideo-kojima-leave-konami

Hideo Kojima is no longer working at Konami and his studio, Kojima Productions, according to a source speaking with the New Yorker.

Kojima reportedly parted ways with the company earlier this month, on October 9. The source in question attended a departure ceremony on that day for Kojima, who has worked at Konami for almost three decades.
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Kojima first came to work at Konami in 1986. It was there that he created the Metal Gear series, which he has helmed since 1987. His other projects have included Snatcher, Policenauts, Boktai, and Zone of the Enders.
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Entire articles at the links.

End of an era, officially.

Lock if old. #FucKonami

edit: also pls don't turn this into console wars or start arguing about stuff like that.
 
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JackEtc

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Liamario

Liamario

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I can totally see him going to Nintendo, I think he's a better fit for Sony though.

I can't see him joining a western studio.
 
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DoctorFling

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Here's to you Kojima, the best is yet to come. Shame about the sin's of the fathers (Konami) causing this heaven's divide.

(I don't know what I'm typing, I'm legit sad MGS is finished)
 
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Myggen

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Maybe link the original source for the news?

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-did-hideo-kojima-leave-konami?intcid=mod-latest

Hideo Kojima left the Tokyo offices of Konami, the video-game company where he had worked since 1986, for the last time. The departure ceremony, according to one of the hundred or so guests who attended, and who asked that I not use his name, took place at Kojima Productions, the director’s in-house studio, and was “a rather cheerful but also emotional goodbye.” He said that he did not see Konami’s president, Hideki Hayakawa, or its C.E.O., Sadaaki Kaneyoshi, at the party, but some of Kojima’s colleagues from other studios showed up to pay their respects, as did many of the people who worked on his most recent directorial project, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
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Broken Joystick

At least you can talk. Who are you?
Oh god the closing quote

It’s likely that, after Kojima’s non-compete clause expires, in December, he will find a new studio and continue making lavishly produced games. But these future projects will be anomalies in a mobile-dominated Japanese market. Although Western fans may mourn the loss, McCarthy doesn’t share their despondency. “Honestly, I am not so sure that any threat to yet another shouting, shooting game full of American grunts saving democracy from the wiles of dark-skinned terrorists is any great loss to the art,” he said.
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