Achievement Unlocked: Hideo Kojima’s Career

The Game Developers Choice Awards will honor Metal Gear creator Hideo  Kojima with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s ceremony at next month’s Game Developer’s Conference.

Kojima, who is corporate officer, executive producer and director of Kojima Productions will also be on hand at GDC to deliver a keynote address. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the career and achievements of developers who have “made an indelible impact on the craft of game development, as Kojima has with over twenty years of work on Metal Gear and other notable franchises,” according to GDC organizer Think Services Game Group.

"For years, Hideo Kojima's contributions to game development have broken new ground and inspired the community to think about creating games in never-before-imagined ways," said Meggan Scavio, event director of the Game Developers Conference. "From giving birth to the stealth action game genre to showing game makers how to interact with their players by breaking the 'fourth wall,' Kojima'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."

The ceremony will be hosted on March 25 in the Esplanade Room in the South Hall of San Francisco’s Moscone Center.