Last weekend, the annual Nordic Game Conference took place at Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden. The first event was held 2004 and has since established the Nordic Game Program and a grant to fund gaming projects.The conference’s speakers included Kojima Productions founder Hideo Kojima.
Kojima participated in a 30 minute question and answer session which is now streaming with English subtitles for anyone who couldn’t make it out to Sweden.
Kojima has been busy visiting other gaming studios like Level-5 and Platinum Games, he gave a keynote address at the DICE Summit in February at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, and making videos with Kenji Yano for their Hideo Tube channel.
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