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Kojima Productions announced that Hololive Vtuber Usada Pekora will appear as an NPC in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. She’ll be one of the Preppers that Sam Porter Bridges can visit and assist during the game. The developer also shared a brief teaser on social media, hinting at what she’ll look like in-game.

The Death Stranding 2 Usada Pekora clip is quite brief, and it does confirm the Hololive Vtuber character model of her original, default costume will appear as her hologram in-game. We first see Sam head to the bunker to make a delivery. As he leaves, we hear Pekora call out to him. He thanks her, and she replies in kind. The entire interaction uses the Japanese voice acting option for the game, so it is unknown if she'll speak in English or Japanese for the English version of the game.

Here’s the full teaser trailer of the interaction:

The follow-up tweet only confirms that she is a Prepper NPC we’ll meet and assist. The developer didn’t talk about any other elements tied to her and her appearance. 

It isn’t entirely unexpected that Usada Pekora will appear in Death Stranding 2, as Hideo Kojima talked about the Hololive Vtuber and interacted with her before. First, he shared a post on social media with several screen captures of one of her stream in August 2023. Then in August 2024, she visited the Kojima Productions offices. We often end up seeing people he references online showing up in his projects as guests.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will come to the PS5 on June 26, 2025.  

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Sony and Kojima Productions announced that there will be a PS5 Dualsense controller based on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, but the limited edition design will only be sold directly through the PlayStation online storefront. These will appear on June 26, 2025, though we can pre-order the peripheral at 10am ET in the US and 10am local time in Europe on May 22, 2025. 

As this is a limited edition controller, Sony noted that it won’t be able to share exact quantities for each region. The company did share a price for it, however. It will cost $84.99/€84.99/£74.99 /¥12,480. Standard Dualsenses tend to cost around $79.99. This comes after price increases on the PS5 and some peripherals were already announced for multiple places worldwide. The announcement on the PlayStation Blog didn’t note if tariffs will affect the price in the US, since the product will be shipping in June 2025. 

Here’s a closer look at the Death Stranding 2 Dualsense PS5 controller. It largely looks like a standard, black version of the peripheral. However, the touchpad features a logo and design based on Drawbridge, the new organization found in this installment. There are also accents on the left and right grips based on technologies and designs found in the game.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will come to the PS5 on June 26, 2025, and the themed DualSense controller will be able to pre-order starting on May 22, 2025 ahead of its June 26, 2025 debut.

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Kojima Productions revealed the release date for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach alongside a new 10-minute trailer during a special held at SXSW 2025. The game will come out on the PlayStation 5 on June 26, 2025.

The new Death Stranding 2 trailer showed various new characters, such as the mysterious soldier Neil, his lover Lucy, and the new president of the United Cities of America (or UCA,) as well as gameplay footage offering a look at new areas and environments. The story sections of the trailer revealed more details about what happened to characters such as Fragile and Lou after the events of the first game, so those going into the game trying to avoid too much information might want to be careful when watching.

You can check out the release date trailer for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach here:

Additionally, pre-orders for the game start on March 17, 2025. The video also showed the different editions available, including a physical collector's edition including a statue of the “Magellan Man,” a digital deluxe edition, and the pre-order bonuses of the regular edition.

The previous trailer for Death Stranding 2 appeared during the January 2024 State of Play and confirmed the subtitle for the game. Additionally, the game was featured during Tokyo Game Show 2024 and it confirmed the return of character Heartman and showed new footage of Tomorrow and Rainy.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will come out for the PlayStation 5 on June 26, 2025. The first game is available as Death Stranding Director’s Cut for the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.

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Director Hideo Kojima shared a small update on the development of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach via social media. While there is no firm release date for the title, he noted the game entered what he called "Crunch Time." He also stated mixing and recording started for the Japanese voiceovers.

In the update, Kojima discussed being tired due to development on Death Stranding 2. He cited that the team entered a strenuous period involving the aforementioned voice recording and mixing, along with other obligations such as attending interviews. While it's hard to judge anything concretely, these suggest that development is proceeding apace for the game's 2025 release window.

You can read Kojima's tweet in full below:

The director also took to social media to share some thoughts on the longevity of his own career, prompted by his purchase of a book on Film Director Ridley Scott. Kojima, a known cinephile, remarked that "Every day feels like I’m racing against the clock", and yet Scott is still active as a filmmaker at 87.

The game was originally announced at The Game Awards back in December, 2022, though actor Norman Reedus had hinted at its production earlier. Another trailer came in January, 2024, at a Sony State of Play presentation, revealing the game's full title would be Death Stranding 2: On The Beach.

Death Stranding 2 is in development and is expected to release in 2025 for the Playstation 5.

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The PlayStation booth will make its grand return at Tokyo Game Show 2024 after a five-year absence. Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced via the Japanese PlayStation.Blog that it will set up a new booth at TGS 2024 after having its last direct appearance in 2019. The company will place numerous PS5 demo units while hosting a Death Stranding 2 talk show.

While Sony has mentioned that the booth will contain multiple PS5 game demos, there will be specific spotlights for two titles: Team Asobi's Astro Bot and Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds. The latter third-party company added that the PlayStation booth will host 40 demo units of Monster Hunter Wilds on the PS5. People who have played either demo will be able to get a bonus merchandise item themed after each game.

In addition, the TGS 2024 Sony PlayStation booth will host a special Death Stranding 2 talk show stage on Sunday, September 29, 2024, at 10:30 AM JST. Hideo Kojima will appear in the show with the Japanese voice actors Kenjiro Tsuda, Nana Mizuki, Tomokazu Sugita, and Shion Wakayama. The singer-songwriter Daichi Miura and the Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn will complete the stage's roster. With its latest trailer published at the January 2024 State of Play, Death Stranding 2 is set for a worldwide release on the PS5 in 2025.

Tokyo Game Show 2024 will be held at Makuhari Messe on September 26-29, 2024.

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At the January 2024 State of Play, a Death Stranding 2 trailer appeared and featured tons of crazy stuff! Higgs is back with an electric guitar that he also uses to attack with electricity and slashes! There’s a metal ninja that makes BB sounds! Fragile’s got a second pair of hands around her neck! But there are other possibly neat or maybe important things you might have missed too. 

Fragile smokes cigarettes that give off BTs (Beached Things) 6v425n

I’m leading with this one, because it is the part that freaked me out the most. At the 8:13 mark of the Death Stranding 2 trailer, we get this scene of Fragile having a cigarette. After her extra pair of hands around her neck (which are also a thing I want to know more about) light it, she starts crying. This is something that happens when people like her and Sam ended up exposed to the Chiralium, and a response that comes when they’re near BTs. When I first watched the trailer, I thought it meant that there was a BT suddenly showing up at a peaceful moment and that was our hint something was wrong.

Instead, upon watching it a second time and looking closer, I noticed when she exhaled the smoke from the cigarette that she actually blew out BTs. Which also makes it seem like maybe something is wrong?!

The winged cat looks like it’s part BT? 4ww5x

At the 4:33 mark, we see one of Fragile’s new allies with a cat that has BT elements to it. The cat has wings, the same inky color, golden eyes, and is just weird! Like you may have caught the moment when the trailer aired, but not realized how inky and unusual it is. It seems like it is some sort of mix of both beings, and it gets me wondering what is going on with it and if we could see this with other characters.

The puppet’s framerate is weird! 4l5245

Part of the Death Stranding 2 reveals involved a person who appears to be a puppet. The character is introduced at the 2:53 mark, and Fragile gives him to Sam. The thing is, the puppet moves at a halting frame rate. Everyone else moves at a normal one. Perhaps whoever this is happens to be a person at another location (or even on the Beach), and the delay is caused by that distance? Something’s definitely going on with this lil’ friend, and I’m betting it’s tied to the Beach. 

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This one comes up at the very end of the State of Play Death Stranding 2 trailer! Sam is lying on his bed, just as he would in the original game. In that first entry, when he’d lie down his cuff links computer would connect to the bed. This was a computer and vitals system that could provide information for Sam, and it seemed that would be a way to update. Well, the Bridges cuff links are gone, but there’s now a ring on his right thumb we can see at the 9:09 mark that may serve a similar purpose.

Moby Dick is on Sam’s shelf 5c3n3l

This could be nothing, but it could also be something? The book Moby Dick is on the shelf above Sam’s bed at the 9:09 mark. We know in Death Stranding 2 that he’s working for Fragile’s group Drawbridge to again reconnect people. However, we also know that something seems to have happened to Lou, and Sam is searching for truth and information about her. Ahab had his white whale he fixated on and pursued, leading to his ruin. Maybe Sam’s on a similar sort of quest that could become his downfall. 

And in case you missed that Death Stranding 2 trailer, here it is again:

Death Stranding 2 will come to the PS5 in 2025.

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Kojima Productions revealed a new trailer for Death Stranding 2 On The Beach and its full name during the January 2024 State of Play. The sequel will bring Sam Bridges to Mexico and new parts of Earth after reconnecting America and is set for a 2025 release.

The new Death Stranding 2 On The Beach trailer is 9 minutes and 40 seconds long. The footage shows new environments like a desert area, the DHV Magellan ship that Fragile commands to back up Sam, as well as brand new characters and the return of familiar faces.

Note: The trailer includes spoilers for the first Death Stranding. 532s4z

You can check out the new State of Play trailer for Death Stranding 2 here:

Death Stranding 2 is a sequel to the 2019 original game. The game was initially announced during The Game Awards 2022 alongside its first trailer. No new information has appeared ever since its initial reveal. Back in May 2022, Norman Reedus confirmed his involvement in DS2 prior to its official reveal.

Death Stranding 2 is currently in development for PS5, and it will release in 2025. The original Death Stranding was released for the PlayStation 4, and the Death Stranding Director’s Cut version is available on PS5 and PC, and it added new side content.

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Hideo Kojima shared his Death Stranding 2 guest list for his Hideo Kojima Presents Brain Structure podcast, which will involve people playing characters in the game. The tweet refers to them as his “DS Family.” All of these episodes are available in both Japanese and English, and he has given the numbers of the episodes to make finding them easier.

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Hideo Kojima Presents Brain Structure is an ongoing podcast from Kojima that is exclusively on Spotify. It started from late September 2022 and is a “deep-dive” into Kojima’s brain. They are in both Japanese and English, and he plays music on the podcast as well. As of February 2, 2023, he ed his episode with Elle Fanning. Though we do not yet know her role, we do know that Fanning will appear as a character in Death Stranding 2.

The tweet also includes the numbers for the episodes with Shioli Kutsuna, N.W. Refn, and Norman Reedus. Episode 23 will be the next one, but we do not yet know who he will invite. All we know is that it will be someone who worked on or is working on the game. Shioli Kutsuna, like Fanning, will play a Death Stranding 2 character. Meanwhile, Refn and Reedus were in the first game.

Hideo Kojima Presents Brain Structure is available on Spotify. Episode 23 will air on February 9, 2023. Death Stranding 2 is in development.

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While Kojima Productions didn't really explain what the BT (Beached Thing) in the Bridge Baby (BB) Pod means, people can pick up a wallpaper and see art of the Death Stranding 2 character. The company shared items as part of its seventh anniversary. It also confirmed that, while not available yet, a Death Stranding 2 PlayStation Network avatar set will appear.

First, here's the Death Stranding 2 poster. It features the BT BB in the hands of an unknown character. It also confirmed a number of the actors returning for the game, as well as new additions to the cast. Norman Reedus and Lea Seydoux will return as Sam Porter Bridges and Fragile. There is also Troy Baker, who played Higgs. Newcomers Elle Fanning and Shioli Kutsuna are the two named newcomers.

The Death Stranding 2 wallpaper for mobile devices is essentially identical to that poster. It just only features the game’s logo and a note about it being a Kojima game set against the BT BB image.

Finally, here is the Death Stranding 2 BT BB Pod animated gift.

【KJP 7th Anniversary & DS2 Reveal Commemoration】
DS2 BB Pod: Gif animation

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— KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS (Eng) (@KojiPro2015_EN) December 16, 2022

Death Stranding 2 is in development.

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The 2022 Game Awards showed the official unveiling of unveiled Death Stranding 2, a follow-up to 2019's Death Stranding. Though not officially confirmed, actor and Death Stranding star Norman Reedus let slip that it was in production. The new trailer heavily features Fragile, played by actor Léa Seydoux.

Check out the trailer below, which stresses that Death Stranding 2 is a working title. This could mean it'll have a different title closer to release.

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In the trailer, Fragile is shown playing with a baby, while the lullaby song sung by Cliff to Lou from Death Stranding plays in the background. Some emergency strikes, and Fragile escapes from her bunker with the baby. Mads Mikkelsen's voice as Cliff follows them. Later, Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges emerges into the light onboard Fragile's ship. Sam's hair has turned completely white, possibly from exposure to the "Timefall" rain that ages a person. Fragile invites Sam to her crew, as a large carrier-like vessel emerges from the sea in front of a series of white cliffs. The trailer closes out with a sinister-looking group of masked people with Oradek scanners plays a rock remix of the lullaby theme. Other imagery from the trailer include a BB container containing what looks to be a BT, and a tentacled creature appearing in the place of Lou's BB container.

Additionally, Kojima teased images and other hints about the game over the last several months. The most recent tease came less than 24 hours before the show proper, a tweet showing the silhouettes of three actors behind the text "How Come?" Actor Elle Fanning was previously confirmed to be involved with the project.

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Death Stranding 2 is in development. The trailer did not specify the game's target platforms or release window. The original Death Stranding released exclusively for the PS4, and was then ported to PC later on. The Death Stranding Director's Cut upgrade was also released for the PS5 and PC, adding new side content.

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Hideo Kojima dropped a new teaser for his new Kojima Productions game. The latest reveal, which comes via Kojima's official Twitter , invites viewers to "Start a new journey." Accompanied by three mysterious symbols, the teases are widely rumored to be connected to an in-development Death Stranding 2.

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Kojima's tweet features three mysterious symbols, at least one of which appeared on earlier teases confirming the involvement of actress Elle Fanning. One symbol is a logo for something called the "Automated Public Assistance Company." The second symbol was present on the Fanning teaser, and depicts a mysterious structure under an umbrella-like shape. The third symbol shows a tentacled creature pierced by harpoons. Exactly what the symbols mean is unknown, but they appear to be corporate or organizational logos of some kind.

The latest teases appear to be leading up to a reveal set for the 2022 Game Awards show. The Game Awards official Twitter , as well as the of creator and host Geoff Keighley, responded to Kojima's tease with hints that more will be revealed at the show on December 8, 20222, when the show goes live.

As for the connection to Death Stranding 2, that is also unconfirmed, though actor and Death Stranding star Norman Reedus did confirm that production is under way on the game. Kojima Productions is working on at least two projects. One is likely Death Stranding 2, while another, codenamed or titled "Overdose" appears to be connected to actress Margaret Qualley (who played Mama in Death Stranding). Some footage and screenshots of project Overdose leaked in early November.

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According to a Leo Edit interview with Norman Reedus, a Death Stranding sequel is in production. When asked about his body of work and involvement in Death Stranding, Reedus candidly responded that he started working on the sequel. However, no further information was revealed. It is uncertain how far along the sequel may be or when production began. Reedus played lead character Sam Porter Bridges. [Thanks, Leo Edit!]

That said, Kojima Productions started recruiting for a new project. This included the hiring of more than a handful of positions which range from concept artists to VFX artists. The job listings did not mention any specific details about the project. They only noted that Kojima Productions is looking for people who are enthusiastic about working within the industry.

In December 2021, Hideo Kojima revealed that the studio is working on two different projects. One of these projects was described as being "big," while the other is "new" and "challenging." More information about both projects will more than likely appear in the future.

Death Stranding was Kojima Production's first title independent from Konami. It released for the PlayStation 4 in November 2019, with a PC release following in July 2022. The title was also made available for PlayStation 5 in September 2021. This was the Director's Cut version, which saw the addition of several quality of life features and some new content.

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