Japanese sources are claiming that the creator of Metal Gear has now officially left Konami and is taking other staff with him.
The long, strange saga of Hideo Kojima’s disintegrating relationship with publisher Konami seems to have reached a new milestone, with respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei reporting that he has now left the company.
There’s no official translation of the story, with some Western sources claiming it talks about Kojima being in talks to work at Sony. But as we understand it this is not true.
The most reliable translation seems to be on forum NeoGAF and reads as follows:
Hideo Kojima, a famous video game creator known for the Metal Gear series has left Konami Digital Entertainment as of… Read the full story