By the time the first issue of Famous Monsters was released, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game available exclusively at an open house at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A basic tennis-like game that was very similar to Pong. Here we are nearly 65 years later and the way that storytelling in games and film have progressed, even polymerized, is truly amazing. Much in the way that there are luminary filmmakers, game designers such as Hideo Kojima are celebrated by fans and peers alike for his ground breaking work.

Having come off the heels of an abusive relationship with Konami, Hideo Kojima started up his own production company reasonably named Kojima Productions. Since the inception of this company in 2015, Kojima Productions has released it's first game Death Stranding (starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Tommie Earl Jenkins, & Guillermo del Toro among others), launched a film centric production studio in Los Angeles, and very recently started a podcast in partnership with Spotify called Brain Structure.

There are 9 episodes of this podcast so far and while the theme of it is to shed light on the many things that inspire Hideo, it seems to serve as a means of launching potential collaborations with those whom he admires. The podcast's cohost pointed out that the list of potential projects with the guests he talks to continues to grow at the end of the latest episode (with RRR director S. S. Rajamouli).

"Well, I think I'll meet up with Jordan Peele soon and we might talk about doing something together, but I'll never have enough bodies to get it all done..."