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Konami people
- Hideo KojimaHideo Kojima was born on the 24th of August 1963 in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo, and his father named him Hideo because it was the most common name among the…
- Motoi OkamotoMotoi Okamoto joined Nintendo in 1999 as a programmer. His first task involved providing library support for Luigi's Mansion, which released in 2001.
- Masahiro ItoMasahiro Ito is the Japanese artist responsible for some of the most unsettling creature designs in video game history. His monsters do not simply look…
- Keiichiro ToyamaKeiichiro Toyama is the creator of three distinct video game franchises: Silent Hill, Siren, and Gravity Rush. Each one occupies its own corner of gaming…
- Takayoshi SatoTakayoshi Sato has built a career as a character designer, writer, and CGI creator. From 1996 to 2003, he was part of a Japanese development unit called Team…
- Akira YamaokaAkira Yamaoka was born in Niigata on the 6th of February 1968. He initially sought to become a designer rather than a musician.
- Yoshitaka MurayamaYoshitaka Murayama died on the 6th of February 2024, just weeks before the game he had spent years building finally reached players. He was 55 years old.
- Yoji ShinkawaYoji Shinkawa was born in Hiroshima on the 25th of December 1971. He grew up in a city that had witnessed immense destruction decades earlier, yet he found…
- Rika MuranakaRika Muranaka spent almost two decades composing music for Hideo Kojima without ever being allowed to write English lyrics for him.
- David HayterDavid Hayter began acting at the age of nine. His father, Stephen, worked in the pharmaceutical industry. He spent most of his childhood living around the…