Death Stranding 2

Hideo Kojima clears up "misunderstanding" around Death Stranding 2, says cutscenes "are not pre-rendered, they're basically all in real-time" and that's been the case since Metal Gear Solid

Hideo Kojima initially had other ideas for Death Stranding 2's peculiar mannequin Charlie, including making them an invisible man, glowing silhouette, or "a 2D anime-style figure"

Hideo Kojima is currently "checking the data" on your favorite Death Stranding 2 routes and weapons, and I hope he's personally counting every road I've restored without help from the ceramics-hording jerks I've been paired with

Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima says "DLC is not a trendy space because if you start doing that, you'll never finish the project"

Death Stranding 2 might've featured Twin Peaks mastermind David Lynch, as Hideo Kojima "always hoped to cast" the "director I've admired for so long"

Hideo Kojima corrects himself with a flex, says actually 79.5% of Death Stranding 2 players "are continuing to play" past its ending instead of the 79% he first reported: "Please keep enjoying the game"

Death Stranding 2 and risky game connoisseur Hideo Kojima says too many AAA games play it safe: "If there is no risk, there won't be any good things that would be born"

It's no wonder Death Stranding 2's hyper-realistic visuals are so good as Hideo Kojima shares behind-the-scenes footage from a "live-action lighting workshop" from over 2 years ago

A month on, Hideo Kojima says 79% of Death Stranding 2 players continued after credits rolled with an appropriately cryptic message: "It might be hard to hold on hope for tomorrow"

UK's controversial online safety law requires Discord users to scan their face to prove they're adults, and somehow Hideo Kojima's own Death Stranding 2 has given privacy-conscious players a workaround

Tragedy strikes as Death Stranding 2 porter discovers other players can dismantle zip lines, even if you're in the middle of using them: "Should we have connected?"

Not even Dollman's constant "guilt-tripping" and the pressure of social media was enough to stop this Death Stranding 2 player from spending an hour hauling a worryingly large pile of dead bodies "for science"

After Metal Gear Solid 5 made sparing or killing enemies so important, I'm disappointed Death Stranding 2 wasted its most interesting mechanic

I'm entering my mailman era with these 5 delivery games, and Death Stranding 2 is entirely to blame

I'm going back to the five best post-apocalyptic games I ever played, thanks to Death Stranding 2 giving me a taste for the terrible

Death Stranding 2 players beg for a "filter" to stop player structures killing the vibe, but others theorize it's all part of Hideo Kojima's master plan: "Should we have connected?"

I thought Kojima filmed Death Stranding 2's opening sequence in my Arizona backyard, and now that people are confusing pictures of a real-life desert for screenshots, I know I haven't lost my marbles