Hideo Kojima, Executive Corporate Officer, delivered the keynote speech at the "Game Developers Conference 2009" ^(*), (hereafter referred to as GDC 2009) which began on March 23rd.

The GDC 2009 is a conference for game development professionals, where they can communicate/interact to stimulate the development of the digital game industry.

The keynote speech was themed "Solid Game Design: Making the 'Impossible' Possible" and introduced examples of achieving what was said to be impossible in game design during the production of the Metal Gear series, as well as its game design philosophy that was put into practice.

(*) March 23rd through 27th (Local time), San Francisco, CA U.S.A.