Did Konami bar Kojima from Game Awards?

As crazy as it seems, Konami might have barred former Metal Gear director Hideo Kojima from attending the Game Awards last night.

If you watched the Video Game Awards last night, then you saw the new voice of Solid Snake, Kiefer Sutherland, accept the award for Best Action/Adventure Game. And you might have been wondering why Hideo Kojima wasn’t there himself, if not on stage, then maybe just in the audience to cheer on what’s really his game.

The short answer is that he was at home, watching it on TV. And we know this because the event’s host Geoff Keighly told the audience in attendance that Kojima wanted to be at the show, and had intended to be, till Konami’s lawyers stepped in and told hime that that wasn’t going to happen.

Keighly went on to say that he thought the whole thing was “disappointing”, and I couldn’t agree more. It’s particularly sad to see that someone like Kojima, who’s been around forever and has made some of the most beloved games of all time, could be kept from attending a show where his latest title (and some say greatest) was to receive an award.

More in the continuing soap opera that is Kojima/Konami, and it just sucks all around.

Source: MCV