Famend game designer and Kojima Productions founder Hideo Kojima has acquired the best honorary award from the Japanese Company of Cultural Affairs. Upon receiving the award of the 72nd Minister of Schooling Award for Positive Arts, the Steel Gear Stable creator took to Twitter to tell his followers of this achievement.

Members of the choice committee had been extremely impressed by Kojima’s work on his newest launch Dying Stranding. Kojima is the second persona from the video games business to obtain this honor, with the primary being Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto.

WIdely credited for inventing the tactical espionage motion style with the unique Steel Gear Stable, Koijma is taken into account by many as an auteur of the video games business – because of the sheer quantity of creativity, his signature type of expository-heavy storytelling, and a normal sense of eccentricity inside his video games.

Having labored with Konami on each mainline Steel Gear Stable game, Kojima now runs his personal impartial studio within the type of Kojima Productions.

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I acquired the 72nd Minister of Schooling Award for Positive Arts from the Company of Cultural Affairs, Authorities of Japan. Thanks very a lot. I’ve been creating video games for 36 years. pic.twitter.com/Gj9aUpbFkR

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) March 15, 2022

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I’m very glad that the immature medium of video games has been extremely evaluated as a cultural artwork type of “expression”. I’ll proceed to dedicate myself to the creation of digital leisure. Thanks very a lot to your continued help.

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) March 15, 2022