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Death Stranding 2: On The Beach review - Hideo Kojima's second game is just as bonkers and beautiful as the first

Get ready for astral whales, creepy cults and a lot of slogging around empty desertscapes

Evening Standard · Jun 23, 2025

Star-packed, Covid-shaped 'Death Stranding 2' Drops This Week

Japanese video game legend Hideo Kojima releases "Death Stranding 2: On the Beach" this week, a star-studded PlayStation sequel inspired by the Covid pandemic.

International Business Times · Jun 23, 2025

'Death Stranding 2: On The Beach' Proves Why Gaming's Weirdest Blockbuster Needed A Sequel

'Death Stranding 2: On The Beach' doubles down on everything that made the original stand out while refining its gameplay to make for a more fun moment to moment experience.

Inverse · Jun 23, 2025

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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach review – a hypnotising arthouse game with an A-list cast

This is a mystifying and provocatively slow-paced game with more celebrities than you would find on a Cannes red carpet

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2025

I’ve spent 40 hours exploring Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and it’s an incredible sequel that builds upon its unique predecessor to become a masterpiece

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach takes Kojima Productions’ excellent debut title to the next level thanks to a character-driven story and improved traversal and action gameplay.

TechRadar · Jun 23, 2025

Death Stranding 2 cements Hideo Kojima's legacy as a PC game designer still living in the console world

Since 2015's Metal Gear Solid 5, Kojima's games have been inching closer to immersive sims—at least in between all the cutscenes.

PC Gamer · Jun 23, 2025

Death Stranding 2 release time – here's when early access for Hideo Kojima's next game begins

The Death Stranding sequel is almost here

GamesRadar · Jun 23, 2025

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Hideo Kojima's cult vampire RPG Boktai only exists because Konami made a UV teddy bear that completely flopped

Konami's loss was vampire hunters' gain

GamesRadar · Jun 21, 2025

Hideo Kojima throws a watch party for Death Stranding 2's launch trailer, which sounds increasingly like a short film as it features "180 shots"

Unless he means there's 180 shots at the watch party...

GamesRadar · Jun 20, 2025

Marvel star reacts to Hideo Kojima's glowing review of his underwater thriller, says "it's an incredible honor to be recognized" by the Death Stranding director

Simu Liu says he was "absolutely floored" by Hideo Kojima's review of Last Breath

Total Film · Jun 20, 2025

Hideo Kojima says he needs to "guide" the live-action Death Stranding movie adaptation, but he won't have "too much" input: "I have to trust these people"

Hideo Kojima isn't going to be too hands on with the Death Stranding movie

Total Film · Jun 20, 2025

Afternoon Update: ADF deployed for Middle East evacuations; vandals cut Sydney train cable; and how Australia influenced a video game

Penny Wong confirms defence force troops have been deployed to the Middle East to assist in evacuating Australians

The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2025

Even Death Stranding 2's Solid Snake doppelganger thought he was playing a Metal Gear Solid character, but Hideo Kojima had to tell him "you're not snake"

"You just have a bandana on your head"

GamesRadar · Jun 19, 2025

Believe it or not Death Stranding is getting another movie, screenwriter puffs on the Kojima pipe and says he can't wait to 'birth new stories into this fertile, mind-bending universe'

From animation studio Line Mileage.

PC Gamer · Jun 19, 2025

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2025

‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in LA from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to space

PC Gamer · Jun 18, 2025

Hideo Kojima says the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 development team is his 'ideal' size: 'They only have like 33 team members and a dog'

Many more people worked on the popular RPG, as established after a recent dust up over who's counted in the word 'team,' but in terms of studio employees, Kojima prefers a quieter building.

GamesRadar · Jun 18, 2025

Nier creator Yoko Taro reckons "there’s less 'weird people'" making games nowadays although he's not sure if it's "something that's happening to the world as a whole"

Yoko Taro has previously called esoteric titles like Ico "epoch-making"

GamesRadar · Jun 18, 2025

"I almost gave up": Hideo Kojima on looking into the abyss, Death Stranding 2's Australian setting, working with his idols, and connecting with koalas

Interview | After the pandemic kept him away, Hideo Kojima finally returns Down Under to visit the place he's spent years recreating for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

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Total Film · Jun 18, 2025

Death Stranding anime movie confirms writer, who is excited to bring "new stories" to Hideo Kojima's "fertile, mind-bending universe"

The Death Stranding anime movie gets a writer

GamesRadar · Jun 17, 2025

PlayStation explains Death Stranding in 6 minutes to remind hopeful Death Stranding 2 players where they came from, but now I'm so confused I forgot where I was born

So, where do the fetuses come in?

GamesRadar · Jun 17, 2025

Hideo Kojima says size does matter, but smaller is better as he praises Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's team size: "That's my ideal"

You can do a lot with a little

Total Film · Jun 16, 2025

Hideo Kojima shares the summer blockbuster he's most excited to see

It looks like summer 2025 is all about horror for Hideo Kojima

T3 · Jun 13, 2025

3 games we can’t wait to play on PS5, Xbox and Switch this summer

There are some spectacular games coming out this summer – here are three we can't wait to delve into...

GamesRadar · Jun 10, 2025

Hideo Kojima says "I always think of other, more weird stuff to make" but he can't just do that when it also has to sell or "my studio will go bankrupt"

I dunno, Death Stranding 2 looks pretty weird

GamesRadar · Jun 10, 2025

Fans briefly panicked after Hideo Kojima's account shared "The life and death of Hideo Kojima" piece, but he's fine – he's just thinking about death and the things he still wants to make

"I still have a lot of things I want to do – that I need to do"

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