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Le Carre, Bagley pegged as Kojima influences

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Want to create a massively popular spy game series? Here's what to read as a first off.

Publisher Hayakawa Shobu is running "Books That Made Hideo Kojima Fair" by putting a MGS: Peace Walker slip cover on six of its books. And they are:

Shadow 81 by Lucien Nahum, High Citadel by Desmond Bagley, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre, Duck Call by Inami Itsuva, The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein and Hothouse by Brian Aldiss.

Read them all. They're really good. Thanks, Kotaku and Andriasang.

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.

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