{"id":258,"date":"2007-01-15T16:44:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T08:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/15\/hideo-kojima-confirmed-for-go3\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T08:44:53","slug":"hideo-kojima-confirmed-for-go3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/15\/hideo-kojima-confirmed-for-go3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima confirmed for GO3!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David just called me with this incredible news: Konami has just confirmed that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hideo_Kojima\">Hideo Kojima<\/a> will be speaking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/go3.com.au\/\">GO3 conference<\/a>! No details are yet available on the GO3 website, but a picture and bio should appear shortly after they are received from Konami.<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>huge news<\/em> for the conference and Perth as Kojima is a prominent figure in the game industry. Many western gamers probably came to know of Kojima after playing Metal Gear Solid, which was a landmark title for the original Playstation. I&#8217;m ecstatic! This is a unique opportunity for game developers (or aspiring game developers) in Australia to see Kojima speak.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: In related news, a <a href=\"http:\/\/go3.com.au\/html\/conference.html\">preliminary schedule<\/a> for the GO3 conference is now online (not yet including Kojima), and the Early Bird registration period has been extended to February 15. There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/go3.com.au\/conference\/index.html\">new Student Budget Pass available<\/a> (made possible by making catering optional).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David just called me with this incredible news: Konami has just confirmed that Hideo Kojima will be speaking at the GO3 conference! No details are yet available on the GO3 website, but a picture and bio should appear shortly after they are received from Konami. This is huge news for the conference and Perth as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/15\/hideo-kojima-confirmed-for-go3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hideo Kojima confirmed for GO3!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-4a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}