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Lucasfilm, Microsoft, Kojima Games Execs Top Variety’s Entertainment Gaming Leaders List
The Variety 10: Entertainment Gaming Leaders honors executives from Lucasfilm, Microsoft, Kojima Games, Blizzard and more.
Gaming has precipitously increased in sophistication, created bigger and broader connections between its participants and, most of all, generated real and profound emotional investment in its outcomes — and not just the fury of watching one’s avatar fail to make it to the next level, or the exhilaration of beating a final boss. From there, Hofstetter has been featured in Vogue, appeared in music videos and starred in film and television projects such as “The Family Plan” and “Sonic Prime.” She also recently delved into the podcast space in addition to brokering a partnership between her company, Hihi Studios, and Global Comics. In addition to developing multimedia action-espionage franchise “Physint” with Sony, Kojima is so immersed in the film world that his studio’s other project, Xbox’s “OD,” is a collaboration with horror maestro Jordan Peele.
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