A Hideo Kojima Game

A Hideo Kojima Game

Part of a series on Hideo Kojima. [View Related Entries]

PROTIP: Press 'i' to view the image gallery, 'v' to view the video gallery, or 'r' to view a random entry.

A Hideo Kojima Entry


About

A Hideo Kojima Game is a brand name on the box cover and titles of video games that were directed by famed game designer Hideo Kojima. The brand gained notability online after video game publisher Konami removed Kojima's name from his studio, the box cover and all promotional ads for Metal Gear Soild V: The Phantom Pain as part of the rumored fracture between the two.

Origin

On March 19th, 2015, several gaming news sites including Kotaku,[1] PC Gamer,[4] Polygon,[5] and Eurogamer[6] reported about the rumor that Hideo Kojima might be leaving Konami, among the evidence include the renaming of Kojima Productions Los Angeles into Konami Los Angeles Studio and the removal of Hideo Kojima's name from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's title on the official Konami website (shown below, top was before the change).

Metal Gear Solid V title on the Konami website showing Hideo Kojima's name and a later title where his name is removed

On July 14th, 2015, a NeoGAF thread was submitted by user Love Deterrence that shows the final version of the official box art for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain which reveals Kojima's brand being completely removed.[7]

META GEAR SOLID V METAL GEAR SOLIDV THE PHANTO M OPAPNTHE PHANTOM PAPN MATURE 17 RP KONAMI KONAMI

Spread

The brand name has become the subject of discussion on a number of websites including Tumblr[8] and 4chan.[9] Over on Twitter[10] and Tumblr,[11] the hashtag #AHideoKojimaGame was launched by fans in response to the removal of the brand by Konami and to show their support towards Hideo Kojima.



On August 4th, 2015, Konami announced the release date for Metal Gear Solid V for the PC on the game's Steam community page.[12] On the same day, users began spamming the comment section of the announcement with the brand name as part of their protest towards the removal of Kojima's name.

freezing_rain 4 Aug@6:41pm We're buying it because of Kojima, but FCK Konami! AkibaBoy 4 Aug 6:39pm Knightyblock Seriosusly, Konami, this is disgusting. Censor the guy's name who worked his ass off to make half the game. I'm ashamed. 4 Aug @6:36pm Knightyblock 4 Aug 6:34pm Silent Law 4 Aug @6:33pm Moshunz 4 Aug6:31pm Kowalski Fmg 4 Aug @6:28pm Travisdeste 4 Aug @6:18pm MrHonsel 4 Aug 6:15pm BroDriko 4 Aug 6:10pm >A Hideo Kojima Gamesss<<ssssss

On August 19th, 2015, JB Hi-Fi, an electronic retail store in Australia, began placing their stock of Metal Gear Solid V on display. Among the promotional campaigns include adding Kojima's brand name on game display shelves across all stores in Australia. On the same day, Twitter user and JB employee Jasmin Lee tweeted a photo of one of the stores. in the coming days, the tweet gained over 400 favorites and was retweeted more than 350 times, among them by Hideo Kojima himself.[12] In the coming days, news of the promotional campaign was covered by a number of gaming news sites including Kotaku,[13] Polygon,[14] Metro,[15] and IGN.[16]


On august 31st, 2015, an image was submitted to the image sharing site Imgur which shows the PSN cover for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain that still has Kojima's brand name on the title.[17] The image gathered over 62.300 views and was shared on r/MetalGearSolid where it gathered over 1.260 points (98% upvoted) and over 150 comments.[18]

| METAL GEAR, $9닝 PlY 1 d 00:03:06 Overview Recent Activities Related Items

On September 1st, 2015, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was released. On the game's Steam page, users began spamming the Steam reviews with Kojima's brand name. On the same day, news of the Steam reviews was covered by Kotaku.[19]

39 1,025 of 1,387 people (74%) found this review helpful 183 people found this review funny Insomniac Doze 360 products in account 26 reviews Recommended 0.1 hrs on record Posted: 31 August A Hideo Kojima Game Was this review helpful? Yes No C Funny 239 of 318 people (75%) found this review helpful 45 people found this review funny 417 help Recommended 1.2 hrs on record 285 products in account 2 reviews Posted: 31 August A Hideo Kojima Game Was this review helpful? Yes No C Funny 792 of 1157 people (68%) found this review helpful 129 people found this review funny Naroiden 292 products in account 12 reviews Recommended 0.4 hrs on record Posted: 31 August A Hideo Kojima Game Was this review helpful? Yes No C Funny 727 of 1,071 people (68%) found this review helpful 117 people found this review funny JohnnyMaxBeast 784 products in account 4 reviews Recommended 0.1 hrs on record Posted: 31 August A Hideo Kojima Game Was this review helpful? Yes No C Funny 477 of 709 people (67%) found this review helpful 70 people found this review funny Rick 79 products in account Recommended 4.0 hrs on record review Posted: 31 August A Hideo Kojima Game Was this review helpful? Yes No C Funny

Search Interest

External References

Recent Videos

There are no videos currently available.

Recent Images 17 total


Top Comments


+ Add a Comment

Comments (43)


Display Comments

Add a Comment


Hey! You must login or signup first!