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Hideo Kojima to Receive Hall of Fame Award Presented By Guillermo del Toro
In six weeks, some of the most influential figures in gaming will gather in the Delano Hotel in Las Vegas to enact a scene that I like to imagine plays out like a grander version of the business card showdown from American Psycho.
In reality, the D.I.C.E. Summit is three days of conferences, panels and speeches, all focused on the business of making video games, culminating in an evening dedicated to the industry’s leaders. The Interactive Achievement Awards named the 25th recipient of their Hall of Fame award earlier today, and it will soon belong to famed auteur Hideo Kojima. I think we can all agree that the timing couldn’t be better.
This is a well-deserved victory for the Metal Gear creator, especially after his former employer wouldn’t let him attend the 2015 Game Awards where Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain — which he directed — won big.
Don’t go anywhere. It’s about to get even better.
Presenting the 2015 Hall of Fame award to Kojima is none other than director Guillermo del Toro — his would-be collaborator on Silent Hills until the project was scrapped by Konami.
Congratulations, Kojima.
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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