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Saturday24th Feb 2018
News Art Pop Musician Grimes Appears at Death Stranding Studio, Sparks Speculation
This is realiti
Well whaddya know, Grimes has been hanging out with Hideo Kojima and the Death Stranding crew. For those out of the loop, Grimes is a Canadian musician who mainly dabbles in art pop. She's also a regular feature on the Push Square office stereo, so you can see why we're eager to pen this article. Anyway, Grimes has...
Thursday22nd Feb 2018
News Troy Baker and Emily O'Brien to Star in Death Stranding
Familiar faces
A post on Instagram has confirmed that Emily O'Brien and Troy Baker, one of the most prolific video game performers around, are set to appear in Death Stranding. The post comes from O'Brien herself as she, Baker, and Norman Reedus pose for a shot. If you're not familiar with her work, you'll have heard her voice characters such as...
Friday26th Jan 2018
News Death Stranding Is Mind Blowing, Says Star Norman Reedus
Exclusive is ahead of its time
Looks like legendary director Hideo Kojima is about to rip up the rule book yet again, as Norman Reedus has been eulogising Death Stranding on a recent B&H Photography podcast. As reported by Metal Gear Informer, the actor described the PlayStation 4 exclusive as “mind blowing”, and hinted that t
Tuesday26th Dec 2017
News Sony Shocked by Death Stranding's Progress, Further Announcements Planned
"We've never seen a game being created at such a fast pace"
Hideo Kojima and protracted development cycles go together like cheese and pickle sandwiches, but it sounds like the Decima Engine is bringing Death Stranding to life quicker than anyone expected. Speaking in the latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation (as translated by Gematsu), director Hideo...
Monday11th Dec 2017
News Hideo Kojima Explains Death Stranding, Blows Minds
A few key questions answered
What the heck was that Death Stranding trailer about, then? IGN sat down with Hideo Kojima in order to ask that very question, and while the auteur shied away from some details, he was surprisingly candid in his responses about the game. So, where to start? How about the
Saturday9th Dec 2017
PSX 2017 Death Stranding's Nuts New Trailer Had Gameplay in It
Game makes sense after "four or five hours"
Death Stranding’s new trailer is not a CG concept – it’s running in real-time on the PlayStation 4 Pro, courtesy of Guerrilla Games’ stunning Decima Engine. In fact, according to creator Hideo Kojima there’s actually bits and pieces of gameplay in it – although it’s not immediately obvious...
Friday8th Dec 2017
News Death Stranding Delivers the Best Trailer You'll See All Year
WTF?!
The critics will be quick to point out that we still don't actually know what Death Stranding is, but don't let small details get in the way of genius. As expected, Hideo Kojima delivered an eight minute long cinematic masterpiece during The Game Awards 2017, and it's... Well, just watch it for yourself. It's absolutely mind-bogglingly...
Monday4th Dec 2017
News Death Stranding Expectations Increase as Kojima, Del Toro Storm The Game Awards
Confirmed guest presenters
We’re a little bit torn on Death Stranding right now. It’s been a year since we last got an update on Hideo Kojima’s madcap PlayStation 4 exclusive, and part of us is gagging to see more. But we can’t help but feel it would be really cool if Sony and Kojima Productions resisted the urge to reveal more, and just...
Monday19th Jun 2017
News Death Stranding Is Already Playable on PS4
And is as revolutionary as promised
Death Stranding, the next game from Metal Gear maker Hideo Kojima, is already playable on the PlayStation 4, according to PlayStation America boss Shawn Layden. Touching upon the title’s absence from E3 2017, the amiable executive admitted that he has played the game, and that it’s everything the auteur has...
Tuesday4th Apr 2017
News Stefanie Joosten Quiet on Death Stranding Involvement
She can't say anything about that, apparently
Stefanie Joosten – the actress who lent her likeness to Quiet in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – has said that she "can't say anything about" potentially working with Hideo Kojima again. Much like Emma Stone, there have been persistent rumours that the star is set to appear in Death Stranding,...
Monday27th Mar 2017
News Emma Stone May Be in Death Stranding, But This Isn't Proof
Fake image emerges
Emma Stone is rumoured to be one of the characters in Hideo Kojima's upcoming Death Stranding – you can read the original report here if you want to know more. This weekend, however, an image has been doing the rounds purporting to show the award-winning actress' in-game character model. This is what it looks: The picture...
Friday24th Mar 2017
News Hideo Kojima's Been Meeting with PlayStation's Big Wigs
Talking time
E3 2017 preparations or just a progress report? According to his Twitter account, Hideo Kojima spent the day in meetings with some of Sony's big wigs, including PlayStation 4 architect Mark Cerny and the ridiculously likeable marketing chief Asad Qizilbash. We bet you could almost smell the talent filtering out of the meeting room...
Thursday16th Mar 2017
News Is Emma Stone Going to Star in Death Stranding?
"That's a lovely rumour"
At this point, we can probably safely say that Hideo Kojima has been given a blank cheque by Sony to make Death Stranding. The auteur not only has one of the most stylish indie game offices in the universe, but he's also busy snapping up hot Hollywood talent like Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen to star in the game. And one...
Monday6th Mar 2017
News Hideo Kojima Won't Stop Fultoning Konami Staff
Poached
We thought everyone hated Konami, so consider our surprise when we spotted £50 Bomberman smirking at us among the UK sales charts top ten today. Whatever. It seems that Hideo Kojima is still busy poaching staff from his ex-employer, as Horizon: Zero Dawn's credits list a number of names from the new Kojima Productions. Included in the...
Thursday23rd Feb 2017
News Kojima: Guerrilla Games' Technology Is a League Ahead
Decima delights
Hideo Kojima has been chatting about Death Stranding and Guerrilla Games' Decima Engine, as he tends to do every couple of months or so. In an interview with the PlayStation Blog, the auteur has revealed that he believes the aforementioned Dutch developer's Decima Engine technology to be a "league ahead" of everyone else, and that's...
News Of Course There's a Death Stranding Easter Egg in Horizon: Zero Dawn
Ludens lives
We didn't see this one coming, did you? That's a… Y'know, spot of sarcasm there in case you didn't detect it. As you should already know, Guerrilla Games and Kojima Productions have partnered on the Decima Engine which powers Horizon: Zero Dawn, so unsurprisingly there's an Easter egg for Hideo Kojima's next game buried among the open...
Saturday4th Feb 2017
News Death Stranding Is 'Not a Horror Game', Hideo Kojima Reiterates
We need intel
Let's face it: we don't know much about Death Stranding or how it plays. Kojima's gone off on a few tangents in the past, alluding to stealth and hitting people with sticks - if we remember right - but it's difficult to picture gameplay until we've actually seen it. Still, at least we know that it's not going to join the ranks of...
Thursday26th Jan 2017
News Death Stranding Will Avoid Sexualised Women Without Deep Backgrounds
Oh so Quiet
Hideo Kojima has said that he wants to take a "different approach" to the way that female characters are represented in PlayStation 4 exclusive Death Stranding. The auteur was chatting with the BBC's Newsbeat following a recent studio tour, and he said that he wants to avoid heroines who have "big breasts and no back story". He expl
News Kojima: I Will Push the Creative Envelope Until the Day I Die
Hideo's back, folks
Hideo Kojima admitted following his break-up with Konami that he considered quitting games for good, but he was convinced to start again. Now it seems like the auteur is very much over the past, and is looking to the future. Today an embargo has lifted showing off the inside of his new studio, and it looks frankly astonishing...
News Take a Look Inside Kojima Productions' Sci-Fi Studio
Seeing is believing
Hideo Kojima has opened the doors to the new Kojima Productions for the first time, revealing the futuristic studio space where Death Stranding will be made. The company, which the auteur founded in late 2015 following his departure from Konami, is almost ready to begin full production on its PlayStation 4 exclusive project –...
Sunday15th Jan 2017
News Kojima Productions Is Quietly Poaching the Top Talent from Konami
Brain drain
Hideo Kojima has departed Konami – and he's bringing all of the top talent with him. The new Kojima Productions, which will launch Death Stranding exclusively on the PlayStation 4 as its first project, has quietly been fultoning high-ranked employees and adding them to its office. We already know that art director Yoji Shinkawa,...
Saturday3rd Dec 2016
PSX 2016 Death Stranding Will Run on Guerrilla Games' PS4 Engine
And it's now called Decima
The mystery surrounding Death Stranding's engine has finally been revealed: it'll run on Guerrilla Games' proprietary software. The tech, which is also being used for Horizon: Zero Dawn, has now been given an official name: Decima. It's the latest version of the engine that previously powered the Killzone games. This...
News Death Stranding's Trailers Are Connected in the Weirdest Way
Baby blues
Death Stranding's two trailers are connected – though you'll need a YouTube Doubler to understand exactly how. You may remember the first clip showing Norman Reedus clutching a baby before it disappears. Well, it turns out that – when played aligned with the new trailer – it's actually Guillermo del Toro's character who's pulling...
Friday2nd Dec 2016
News Death Stranding Delights with Barmy PS4 Trailer
Mads Mikkelsen joins the cast
What the hell? Hideo Kojima accepted his industry icon award during The Game Awards 2016 this evening, and then decided to bring the house down with a feature-length trailer for his brand new PlayStation 4 exclusive, Death Stranding. In the clip, we see Guillermo Del Toro and Mads Mikkelsen. It looks more pretentious...
Monday19th Sep 2016
TGS 2016 PS4 Exclusive Death Stranding Chained to 2018 Release Date
Strand together
Death Stranding, the first PlayStation 4 exclusive project from Hideo Kojima, will release in 2018, the auteur has hinted. Speaking as part of a panel at the Tokyo Game Show, the veteran said: "It will be out before the Olympics. To go a little further, there is a movie called Akira, and it will be out before the year in which Akira...
Tuesday13th Sep 2016
TGS 2016 Death Stranding Will Bring Online, Open World Action to PS4
Hideo Kojima explains exclusive game
Hideo Kojima really taxed the translators at Sony's Tokyo Game Show press conference today, talking cryptically about his upcoming game Death Stranding – which will launch exclusively for the PlayStation 4. Given that development on the title only started a few months ago, the acclaimed auteur didn't have...
Thursday14th Jul 2016
News PS4 Exclusive Death Stranding Will Be Hideo Kojima's Best Work
Bold ambitions
Hideo Kojima – the creator of bonafide classics like Metal Gear Solid and, er, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty – believes that Death Stranding, his brand new PlayStation 4 exclusive game, will be his greatest work to date. The veteran was speaking in Brighton at the Develop conference alongside fellow legend Mark Cerny, who...
Tuesday14th Jun 2016
E3 2016 What Was That Death Stranding Trailer About?
Honestly? No idea
Death Stranding, the new game from Hideo Kojima, looked freakin' rad, didn't it? But, er, what the f**k was going on? That's exactly what the Internet's been trying to decipher for the past 24 hours – and it hasn't come up with any solutions yet. There are theories out there, though, which are fun to chat about, we suppose...
E3 2016 PS4 Architect Mark Cerny Is Working on Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding
In the tub
Mark Cerny, the PlayStation 4's architect, appeared in the credits for Hideo Kojima's mysterious Death Stranding trailer this week, suggesting that the industry legend will have some role in the development of the exclusive game. The outrageously talented veteran was listed as Technical Producer, which makes a lot of sense considering the...
E3 2016 Hideo Kojima's New PS4 Exclusive Is Called Death Stranding
And it is very very weird
Hideo Kojima unveiled his new project at Sony's E3 press conference today, and it was delightfully bizarre. There is very little we actually know about the game - which is called Death Stranding - but here's our basic rundown of the trailer: Naked Norman Reedus is attached to a naked baby. The baby dissapears, but leaves a...
