Death Stranding will ship out in June according to the eternal enigma that is Walmart Canada

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Walmart Canada strikes again, but is this Death Stranding window a joke, a leak, or something in between?

A new window for Death Stranding's long-awaited arrival may have finally been revealed in a reflexive fit of incompetence and/or internet comedy. It involves The Game Awards, a sharp-eyed fan, and who else but Walmart Canada - the same regional branch of the mega retailer that infamously leaked Rage 2 amongst several other announcements last year. It all started with a Tweet from host and producer Geoff Keighley.

Walmart Canada just... tweeted that out. It wasn't even tagged in Yinob's response! And now we're left with so many questions. Was Walmart Canada's Twitter account simply robotically repeating the details listed on its product page for Death Stranding? Was it poking fun at its own complicity in the leaks of last year by sticking with what it knows is only a placeholder?

Or was this all actually pre-arranged behind the scenes by Keighley, Hideo Kojima, and the Walmart Canada social team as a pre-announcement tease for Death Stranding (which is likely to get another reveal of some kind at The Game Awards)? I find myself saying this a lot lately, but that does totally sound like the kind of thing Hideo "I'm going to pretend to be a heavily bandaged man named Joakim Mogren" Kojima would pull.

We'll find out soon enough. The Game Awards are set to air one week from now on Thursday, December 6, and more Kojima weirdness is always worth looking forward to.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.