Hideo Kojima pulls out of GDC at the last minute

Hideo Kojima knows a thing or two about making videogames—he's made a few you may have heard of, like the Metal Gear series and the Death Stranding games. That's probably why he was set to headline this year's Game Developers Conference as its keynote speaker. But with GDC now just a month away, there's bad news for the conference and everyone hoping to hear what he had to say, because he's not going to be there.

Word of the last-minute withdrawal came from the Kojima Productions X account:

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