Kojima Productions

Kojima Productions is a video game development studio headed by Hideo Kojima. Located in Roppongi Hills in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan, the studio had just under 100 employees when it was first formed in 2005. During the development of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the studio employed more than 200 people. The company's logo is the FOX unit badge from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

History
The developer was formed on April 1, 2005, after Konami merged several of its subsidiaries, including Kojima's team at Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (KCEJ).

The company was intended to relieve Kojima of the business management and administrative responsibilities he had previously as KCEJ's vice president. As the head of Kojima Productions, Kojima is able to focus solely on creating games.

While the company has largely focuses on games in the Metal Gear series, it has also developed games not in that series, such as Lunar Knights.

Fox Engine
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A game engine being developed by Kojima Productions for use in future titles.

Transfarring
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A gameplay that allows the player to transfer the game between systems.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
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An upcoming spin-off game which is set to be a sequel of Metal Gear Solid 4. KojiPro is only overseeing the game, as they have no actual role in the development of the game.

Project Ogre and "Metal Gear Solid 5"
In mid 2011, a Fox Engine demo was shown during lecture at the USC held by Kojima, in which a seemingly expert militiaman highly resembling the Big Boss (take note of the eyepatch) was waiting for an armed vehicle in a jungle. Interesting fact, Kojima stated at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show: "Solid Snake's storyline has ended with MGS4. But there's still a lot more when it comes to Naked Snake's storyline.", suggesting that the demo shown at USC could be related to sometime between Peace Walker Incident and Outer Heaven Uprising, possibly making Big Boss the protagonist of the upcoming game.

In November 2011, Kojima alluded to be working on a game codenamed "Project Ogre", and has recently shown a screenshot relating to the game in development. It is believed that this project is related to the next canon installment of the series, "Metal Gear Sold 5". The screenshot indicates that it involves a war either in an African or a Middle Eastern country.

"Rather than making something cinematic, [I plan to] make something very free," Hideo Kojima told CNN of his new game. He went on to describe the game as set in an open world, in which players are free to explore. Kojima expects players to be able to find content even after 100 hours. Also a screenshot of one of project's programmer "Lionel" and his avatar, made in about an hour of fiddling was released via Kojima's Twitter account. Kojima added, "For those of you desire for authentic stealth MGS, I want you to patiently wait for the sequel coming in future.", in a November 2011 interview with UK Official Playstation Magazine. At the time he would only say his new game running on the engine would support Transfarring, be multiplatform, and be designed with a global audience in mind. The game will be running on Fox Engine.

In December 2011 Hideo Kojima talked about his interest for developing another canon Metal Gear installment:

''"Metal Gear Solid 4 wrapped up in 2008, and the dev team took post-project time off right after that. But, of course, we were in a situation where we had to start planning for MGS5. So I started coming up with several ideas. I had several ideas for a game featuring The Boss and the Cobra Unit during the invasion of Normandy. I then handed these plans over to the team so they could take over and make the game. I presented my ideas to the team during the summer of 2008. However, simply dropping MGS5 on the younger staff members was a bit heavy and there was resistance to doing it without my involvement. At the time, I was working on a new project. It was during the planning phase of that project and I wanted the staff to take charge of the new title. There was resistance to that idea, though. It was then that someone proposed the idea for what would become Rising. It was a game based on Raiden's story, since MGS5 had too much weight to it. It would be a side story that the team felt more comfortable working with."''

In January 2012, Kojima dropped more hints about the project, stating: "It's a very subdued experience – it’s a little bit different to what I’ve done up until now. On the surface it will look similar, but once you get into it, it will be a different experience – and I’m hoping people look forward to that. But the Ogre project is going to take a lot of time, so I want to produce some other things on the side, like I’m doing with Metal Gear Rising. So while I’m working on Project Ogre there might be a couple of other projects going on at the same time."

In February 2012, a Japanese securities firm predicted that Metal Gear Solid 5 is going to be released between April 2013 and March 2014, Konami's next fiscal year. It's not clear that whether the game is going to be released for the next possible Playstation console. Kojima or Konami haven't responded to this rumors as of yet.

Games
Though Kojima has developed games at Konami since 1987, the Kojima Productions studio was not formed until 2005. However, Konami retroactively refers to Kojima's earlier productions as belonging to Kojima Productions. All Kojima Productions games were published by Konami. Games developed by Kojima Productions are in bold.

Metal Gear

 * Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (X360, PS3, PC, TBA)
 * Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (PSP, 2010)
 * Metal Gear Solid Touch (iPod Touch, iPhone, 2009)
 * Metal Gear Online (PS3, 2008)
 * Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3, 2008)
 * Metal Gear Solid 2: Bande Dessinée (DVD, 2008)
 * Metal Gear Solid Mobile (Mobile/Nokia, 2008)
 * Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus (PSP, 2007)
 * Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (PSP, 2006)
 * Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel (PSP, 2006)
 * Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2, 2005)
 * Metal Gear Acid 2 (PSP, 2005)
 * Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2, 2004)
 * Metal Gear Acid (PSP, 2004)
 * Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (GCN, 2004)
 * Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (XB, PS2, PC, 2002)
 * The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2, 2002)
 * Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2, 2001)
 * Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (GBC, 2000)
 * Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions (PS1, 1999)
 * Metal Gear Solid: Integral (PS1, PC, 1999)
 * Metal Gear Solid (PS1, 1998)
 * Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX2, 1990)
 * Metal Gear (MSX2, 1987)

Other

 * Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (X360, PS3, 2010)
 * Gaitame Baibai Trainer: Kabutore FX (DS, 2009)
 * Lunar Knights (DS, 2007)
 * Kabushiki Baibai Trainer Kabutore' (DS, 2007)
 * Shin Bokura no Taiyō Gyakushū no Sabata (GBA, 2005)
 * Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (GBA, 2004)
 * Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand (GBA, 2003)
 * Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (PS2, 2003)
 * Zone of the Enders (PS2, 2001)
 * Policenauts (PC-98, 3DO, PSX, Sega Saturn, 1994-1996)
 * Snatcher (PC-8801, MSX2, PCE, Sega CD/Mega CD, PSX, Sega Saturn, 1988-1996)