Jay Boor comes in as global head of comms/marketing, but known Kojima translator still with dev.

Jay Boor comes in as global head of comms/marketing, but known Kojima translator still with dev.

Long-time Kojima Productions veteran Aki Saito is still an active member of the Death Stranding developer, it has told Play Diaries.

Saito has been part of KP in its two iterations. The first time as part of translation production during the development of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, as well as act as translator for Hideo Kojima, when the studio was under the ownership of Konami.

It’s understood Saito went into the banking sector after leaving Kojima Productions 1.0 and Konami, but rejoined Kojima Productions 2.0 in its independent incarnation at the end of 2018 as its head of communications and marketing plus translation duties for Kojima.

The developer announced earlier this week that it has hired ex-Konami and Riot Games veteran Jay Boor as its global head of comms and marketing.

Boor has told Play Diaries that Saito “is still at KJP” and remains its head of comms.

BAFTA announced earlier today that studio founder Kojima would receive the BAFTA Fellowship at this year’s BAFTA Game Awards on April 2 in London.