Konami

Konami Holdings Corporation (Japanese: コナミホールディングス株式会社, Hepburn: Konami Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha, commonly referred to as Konami; TYO: 9766 OTC Pink: KNMCY) is a Japanese producer of numerous toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines and arcade cabinets, and a developer and publisher of video games. It also operates health and physical fitness clubs in Japan.

Konami is famous for popular video game series such as Castlevania, Contra, Dance Dance Revolution, Gradius, Frogger, Suikoden, Ganbare Goemon, Metal Gear, Mirmo, Beatmania, Pro Evolution Soccer, Silent Hill and Yu-Gi-Oh!. The 2012 purchase and absorption of Hudson Soft resulted in the addition of several other popular franchises, including Adventure Island, Bonk, Bloody Roar, Bomberman, Far East of Eden and Star Soldier. Konami is the twentieth-largest game company in the world by revenue.

The company was founded in 1969 as a jukebox rental and repair business in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan, by Kagemasa Kōzuki, who remains the company's chairman. The name "Konami" (/koʊˈnɑːmi/; Japanese pronunciation: [kó.nà.mì]) is a conjunction of the names Kagemasa Kozuki, Yoshinobu Nakama, and Tatsuo Miyasako.

Jim Sterling

Jim Sterling, born James Stanton, is a freelance video game journalist, critic, and pundit. Prior to becoming completely independent in September 2014 through crowdfunding, Sterling was the review editor for Destructoid and a content creator for The Escapist.

Career

The Jimquisition is a weekly YouTube video series in which Jim Sterling discusses current issues surrounding video games. Such topics include pre-order culture, gender issues and early access games. The series originally started on Destructoid’s YouTube channel and was later moved to The Escapist's channel. Currently his other series include Best of Steam Greenlight where he watches and comments on poorly made or games that have been sold only using unaltered pre-purchased assets (known as "asset flipping"), gameplays of different games released on Steam, often games of poor quality, and itch.io tasty series where he plays various videogames available on itch.io under various topics.

In November 2014, Sterling announced that he was leaving The Escapist and intended to seek funding for his work independently through the Patreon website. He has also stated the desire to go back to writing articles and doing podcasts, which he wasn't able to do since he left Destructoid., but has since done on his own website (thejimquisition.com), creating "The Podquisition", a podcast that he shares with Gavin Dunne and Laura K Buzz.