When it released this past November, a lot of things stuck out about Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited new title Death Stranding. While the game itself was met with a bit of a mixed reception, the game’s world and characters were often praised alongside its unusual and heartfelt story, including the game’s protagonist Sam Porter Bridges. Revolving around
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While the game itself received some mixed reception for its storytelling and gameplay, Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited Death Stranding arguably delivered on creating an intriguing new world to explore for players. That especially is tied to the game’s memorable creatures and enemies like the BTs, the supernatural beings with ties to the realm of the living and
Since its release this past November, Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited Death Stranding has continued not only to garner attention for its story and world, but also its visuals and music. The music of Death Stranding especially gained acclaim for its haunting songs from artists such as Low Roar and CHVRCHES, with a new soundtrack album for the game now available
The February 6, 2020 issue of Famitsu magazine (released on January 23) included a 30 pages feature on Kojima Productions for the 4th anniversary of the studio. The feature also included a 5 pages interview with Hideo Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa, who chatted about their history together and looked back on Death Stranding’s development. The
While most fans are waiting for Sony to release more concrete PS5 details, the company continues to put an emphasis on PS4 marketing. And with new ads like the one Sony released today, you can see why. Their latest 30-second spot shows off some of the great games coming in 2020 while highlighting one of
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) have announced their nominees for the 23rd Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. A total of 65 games were nominated with Control and Death Stranding tied for the most with eight nominations each. The ceremony will take place on February 13, 2020 in Las Vegas with Greg Miller and Jessica Chobot
The 20th edition of the Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) are coming up quickly and as of today, we now know which games from the past year are in line to earn top honors at the event. GDC released the full list of nominees for the awards show today and most of the games that
Death Stranding by Kojima Productions featured a large number of cameos, music, and even copious amounts of metallic cans of Monster Energy. However, in an interview with VG247, Death Stranding helped save a band who was “in the gutter.” The lead singer, Ryan Karazija was the frontman of an Icelandic indie-rock band named Audrye Sessions. The band consisted
Hideo Kojima is using the start of 2020 to help reminisce about his most recent project. Across his social media pages, Kojima-san shared an early concept art from Death Stranding from before the script was written. Even more interesting, Kojima-san shared the original title for the game which is similar-yet-different: “Dead Stranding.” First shared via Hideo Kojima’s
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just 2019
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
With the decade quickly coming to a wrap, it is time for DualShockers’ annual Game of the Year awards selection. In all my time with this publication, this game of the year has been the most contentious — a fact that speaks to the many fantastic titles that came out this year. But whether you stan Fire
505 Games has quite a varied catalog of games. While the publisher is behind some heavy hitters like Control and the upcoming PC version of Death Stranding, 505 Games also supports some smaller indie titles like Laser League and Last Day of June. Today, 505 Games added another title to that latter category: Total Tank
On November 8, 2019, one of the most anticipated games of the generation released. Shrouded in mystery, Hideo Kojima’s newest experience was finally put in the hands of gamers everywhere with mixed reactions. Now a month after release, the Death Stranding December update has now been unearthed, making some welcome changes that will surely improve
This week’s usual leaks, most likely from this week’s Famitsu magazine, included comments from Masahiro Sakurai on Death Stranding. Masahiro Sakurai praised Hideo Kojima’s latest game, mentioning how there are very few games who manage to be this original and yet this interesting. Sakura added that Death Stranding definitely isn’t for everyone, but that he
In early November, it was revealed that Death Stranding would be getting a two-part novelization based on the game’s plot. Just yesterday the novels finally hit Japanese book shelves and Twitter user JonTaitan posted a picture of the books in question: ノベライズ版「デス・ストランディング」を三宮のジュンク堂で買ってきました！ついでに2冊ほど本を衝動買いしてしまった…#DeathStranding pic.twitter.com/rKZ45UT1W6 — JonTaitan (@taitan_jon) November 28, 2019 Along with the standard versions available
Death Stranding is a very divisive game. While many people just outright hate the gameplay or story, smaller annoyances could sometimes anger players like myself who otherwise liked Kojima’s latest outing. Fortunately, Kojima Productions revealed on Twitter today that an update to fix a couple of issues that players have with the game will arrive
In just a few weeks, the eyes of the games industry worldwide will be on The Game Awards, which is returning for its fifth annual ceremony in mid December to honor the biggest achievements in games in the past year. While this year’s awards ceremony is already recognizing some of the most acclaimed titles of
The latest and first original IP from Metal Gear Solid director, Death Stranding, naturally has plenty of gamers who discuss and show off their relatable gameplay experiences. One such fan, S-Kinnaly, took to her Twitter and drew out a couple fun scenarios based on in-game mechanics. (And yes, peeing on the ghost BTs actually works
I can’t think of any other game I have played in recent years that has left me more divisive in my final verdict than Death Stranding. Hideo Kojima’s first game in his post-Metal Gear Solid life has been in the public consciousness since 2016 and it’s been a game that I’ve been enraptured with since
Yesterday, the list of nominees for this year’s edition of The Game Awards came out and, perhaps unsurprisingly, Death Stranding ended up being one of the year’s most-nominated titles. In total, Death Stranding was nominated for eight different categories including the highly-coveted Game of the Year award, which is essentially the highest achievement that The Game Awards
The Game Awards 2019 is set to take place in just a few mere weeks and today, the nominees for this year’s show were finally divulged. In a year where many thought there wasn’t one major standout release that stood above the rest, the nominees for Game of the Year in 2019 proved to be
In the days since Death Stranding has released, we’ve started to get a better picture of how the game has been selling in various regions around the world. Not only did the Kojima Productions-developed title get off to a strong start in the UK, but it seems as though it has performed quite well in Japan,
While it’s only been out for just a few days, there is already a lot that I’ve had to unpack from my time with Death Stranding. Like anyone else that’s played it, I’ve noticed that there is a lot to wrap your head around at the beginning of the game, from the 10 hours or