Hideo Kojima Won't Stop Fultoning Konami Staff

We thought everyone hated Konami, so consider our surprise when we spotted £50 Bomberman smirking at us among the UK sales charts top ten today. Whatever. It seems that Hideo Kojima is still busy poaching staff from his ex-employer, as Horizon: Zero Dawn's credits list a number of names from the new Kojima Productions.

Included in the 'Special Thanks' section of the Guerrilla Games developed exclusive are a bunch of ex-Konami staffers who have been fulton lifted to the new Kojima Productions. The folks over at Metal Gear Informer have put together a full list of every name included, as well as the titles that they're known for.

• Kenichiro Imaizumi (MGS4/PW/R/V producer)
• Ayako Terashima (Kojima's PA)
• Aiko Sakamoto (MGS:PW lead programmer)
• Daizoburo Nakamura (MGSV lead programmer)
• Yuta Hoshino (MGSV FX engineer)
• Nozomu Takeuchi (MGSV art / programmer)
• Hideki Sasaki (MGS series art director / character modeler)
• Yasuhiro Ikoma (MGS3-V / ZOE2 / PT effects artist)
• Ludvig Forssell (MGSV / PT music composition)
• Jorge Ken Hashimoto (Kojima's translator)
• Takaaki Ishikawa (MGSV graphics engineer)
• Fumito Miyauchi (MGSV Fox Engineer / UI programmer)
• Hiroyuki Nakayama (MGSV sound designer)
• Akira Inamura (MGSV character artist)
• Kohei Ishiyama (MGSV effects programmer)
• Makoto Abe (MGSV UI programmer)
• Kazuya Adachi (MGSV Fox Engine tech director)
• Satoshi Matsuno (MGS3-V level design / artist)
• Satoshi Matsuno (MGS3-V programming)
• Takayuki Uchida (MGS4-V environment design / artist)
• Hiroaki Arai (MGSV programmer / lead tech artist)

If you're wondering why Kojima Productions employees are listed in the credits of Horizon: Zero Dawn, then it's worth remembering that the Japanese start-up is collaborating with Guerrilla Games on the Decima Engine. So yeah, this all looks like pretty bloody positive news for Death Stranding, doesn't it?