Officially unveiled during the recent Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase and arriving this Autumn, the PowerWash Simulator Shrek Special Pack allows you to:

“Wash away your worries and live happily ever after to the soothing sounds of high-pressure water, carefully ridding nostalgic locations from villainous muck! In this hero’s journey, players will clean up the grime covering five iconic maps from the Shrek Universe, including Shrek's Swamp, Dragon's Lair and three other unrevealed locations.”

Though no price has been officially confirmed, all prior paid crossover DLCs for the game have cost £6.50 – so expect it to be in the same ballpark.

Despite the last mainline Shrek film releasing all the way back in 2010, the character and series remains as popular to this day thanks in part to Shrek himself achieving meme status – and so this collab could be PowerWash Simulator’s biggest yet.

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Officially unveiled during the recent Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase (though coming to all platforms), Tetris Forever is a compilation title developed by retro specialists Digital Eclipse featuring “more than 15 different classic Tetris games while exploring the history of the series through over an hour of all-new documentary footage.”

No release date for the game has been given, though it is stated to arrive sometime this year – so hopefully we will hear more from it soon.

Alongside this, Nintendo also revealed that the classic NES Tetris title (arguably one of the two most iconic versions of the game) is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online service later this Winter.

Over the past 40 years there have been countless versions and variants of Tetris, yet the fundamentals always stay the same. It is not surprising to see that almost half a century later, Tetris is still as celebrated as ever.

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Announced during the most recent Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, Yakuza Kiwami is a remake of the 2005 PS2 game in which you as Kazuma Kiryu:

“Take the fall for a murder and emerge from prison 10 years later to yakuza clans on the brink of a war that hurtles you on an intense journey of love, humanity, and betrayal, fueled by your fists and unyielding resolve, set against a bustling red-light district in modern day Japan.”

Yakuza Kiwami ran at 1080p 60fps on the original PS4, and so it will be interesting to see whether the team at RGG studio have been able to maintain such a resolution/performance on the much more modest Nintendo Switch.

The trailer itself seems to indicate as much, but we will have to wait and see. Yakuza Kiwami comes to the Nintendo Switch on the 24th of October.

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During the most recent episode of the Game Mess Mornings Podcast, known industry insider Jeff Grubb spoke on the current state of the PS5 Pro, saying:

“Last I heard, this thing [PS5 Pro] is still coming out this year. And more recently what I've heard is there is probably going to be a State of Play, a Sony PlayStation State of Play – not a Showcase – a State of Play, at the end; by the end of September.”

As mentioned, the discussion surrounding the PS5 Pro has been heating up recently, with further evidence of its imminence including a secret PS5 Pro mode which was recently added to No Man’s Sky.

If a State of Play is indeed coming sometime next month, then hopefully we will officially hear about the PS5 Pro then. We won’t have to wait too long to find out.

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Making the announcement on Twitter, the official Nintendo UK page shared the following: “Join us…August 27th at 15:00 (UK time), for an #IndieWorld Showcase followed by a #NintendoDirect: Partner Showcase! The livestream, featuring both presentations back-to-back, will be roughly 40 minutes in total.”

As expected, the company made sure to note that “there will be no mention of the #NintendoSwitch successor during either of these presentations.”

Despite not being a General Direct, having two smaller showcases back-to-back does seem to suggest that we could be getting a couple neat announcements. Hollow Knight: Silksong perhaps?

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As reported by known leaker Tom Henderson, “The PlayStation Portal was very successful and [Sony] are paying very close attention to the current handheld market.”

As mentioned by Henderson, the PlayStation Portal has been a surprise hit, with the remote play powered handheld exceeding PlayStation’s expectations – and is even the no.1 best selling gaming accessory of the year so far.

Beyond this, the overwhelming success of the Nintendo Switch as well as the positive energy surrounding PC handhelds such as the Steam Deck clearly shows that there is still a market for portable gaming. Hopefully Sony is indeed listening.

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With a Metacritic and Opencritic score of 77, Star Wars Outlaws lands neatly in line with many of Ubisoft’s releases in recent years. Similarly, the game appears to fall into many of those same trappings, including “simple stealth, repetitive combat, and a few too many bugs at launch.”

While perhaps not the warmest of receptions, Star Wars Outlaws still has a long journey ahead of it, with a Season Pass already announced and unveiled – showing off its post-launch DLC including two story packs and a couple cosmetic bundles.

That said, launch day bugs aside, it is unlikely that Ubisoft will be able to fix many of the issues associated with the game via updates/patches – not without some serious reworking.

Still, what matters most is what fans and players think of the game, and so we will have to wait and see how Outlaws is received when it officially launches later this week.

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Making the announcement on Twitter, the team behind Black Myth: Wukong – Game Science – announced that the title has “sold 10 million copies across all platforms. (Data as of 21:00 Beijing time, August 23, 2024),” adding “Thanks to all players worldwide for your support and love.”

While it may seem as though Black Myth: Wukong blew up out of nowhere, the game has been in the back of many players’ minds ever since it was first revealed back in 2020.

Additionally, being developed by a Chinese studio, the game has proven to be a major hit in its country of origin, with reports stating that “Sony Group Corp. ran a sales promotion for its PlayStation 5 in China for the week around Wukong’s launch and saw stores sell out of the console.”

With Black Myth: Wukong becoming one of the fastest selling games of all time in a 3 day period (surpassing Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy), it’ll be interesting to see just how much more the game will grow over the course of the rest of the year.

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In an interview conducted by IGN, Amazon Games boss Christoph Hartmann sat down to discuss all manner of topics, ranging from the company’s upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO to their recent acquisition of the Tomb Raider IP.

Perhaps most interesting however was Hartmann’s opinions on the rise of generative AI as a replacement for various aspects of game development, saying in response to a question on the current SAG-AFTRA voice actors strike relating to AI:

“When we talk about AI, first of all, hopefully it will help us to have new gameplay ideas, which has nothing to do with taking work away from anyone. And especially for games, we don't really have acting… The majority of the team sits in programming and that's not going to go away because that's all about innovation. If it takes something, it will be really the boring parts.”

Hartmann continued, “I think what could be super helpful is localization. Right now, we're localizing our game into a certain set of languages. Basically, does it commercially make sense to have it in a language, yes or no? Having AI actually will help us.”

Beyond the baffling statement that games “don’t really have acting,” Hartmann’s claimed benefits for AI would still take away a whole sector of the game development industry – that being localisation – while likely doing a terrible job at it. The full, and lengthy, interview can be found HERE.

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In response to the success of the most recent multiplatform title to miss launching on Xbox due to the Series S – Black Myth: Wukong – Del Walker, a video game artist who has worked across the industry (including at Naughty Dog; Rocksteady and Respawn Entertainment) had this to say:

“I wish the Series S never existed, man. So annoying to optimize for that console – I expect we'll unfortunately see more game launches get skipped by Xbox in the future,” adding that “I just DO NOT like having to optimize current gen games for that console and I wish it never existed. Xbox Series X is an amazing piece of hardware though; fantastic console.”

Offering a bit more on the specifics, Walker added, “I wish people understood it's NOT about the game. It's just annoying to make a high end game with complex Ai, VFX, Advanced Physics, Multi-threading Optimization, Particle Systems, Dynamic Memory Demands, etc etc then chop all that out so it also plays the SAME on an Xbox S.”

As mentioned, quite a few games now have either skipped the Xbox or arrived later due to the Series S, with the most notable being Baldur’s Gate 3 and the aforementioned Black Myth: Wukong.

While the Xbox Series S may have seemed like a good idea at the time, it appears as though the system has run into quite a few unintended issues.

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According to Wccftech, many separate parties claimed during Gamescom that the PlayStation 5 Pro is indeed real and will likely be unveiled soon, with the Italian website ‘Multiplayer’ revealing claims from one dev that their team had delayed their game due to the upcoming launch of the PS5 Pro – a sentiment echoed by another separate dev team.

In total, it seems a bunch of different developers of different sizes all confirmed to different publications that they were either aware of or are currently working with the PS5 Pro – all-but-confirming its imminent announcement.

Of course, the existence of the PS5 Pro was evident, with the likes of Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky having already gotten a secret PS5 Pro graphics setting.

With so much talk surrounding the PS5 Pro, its announcement has to be mere months – if not weeks – away. We will have to wait and see.

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Back in March, Steam reached a new record of current users, with over 36.3 million players online all at once. As has been the case for a while now, the total number of concurrents has continued to steadily rise – reaching yet another record of 36.9 million back in June.

Once again, the service has now outdone itself, reaching a total of 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever (37,266,324 to be specific according to SteamDB).

Of course, peak concurrents is just one way to observe Steam’s success. That said, when looking at average monthly player counts, the service is no slouch either, with nearly 27 million players on average over the past 30 days.

Being able to publicly see just how much Steam is continuing to grow more than a decade on from its launch is interesting for multiple reasons – including pure curiosity. It likely won’t be long before the platform hits 40 million concurrents.

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The upcoming Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster represents first appearance of the IP since 2016’s Dead Rising 4, with Capcom claiming that this marks just the beginning of their revitalisation of older franchises, saying in an interview with IGN:

“Capcom would like to continue to bring back many of its IPs” adding that “In hopes of expanding upon the Dead Rising series in the future, we’d first like to put effort into promoting Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster and share its appeal with fans around the world.”

Just some of Capcom’s various properties which have not seen a proper new entry in a while include Onimusha; Dino Crisis; Marvel vs Capcom; Mega Man’s many spin-offs and Bionic Commando – to name a few.

It’ll be interesting to see which franchises Capcom decides are worth another go. We will have to wait and see. The full interview can be found HERE.

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Making the announcement on their blog, the team at Asobo Studios unveiled the latest World Update, saying:

“Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, collectively known as DACH (Deutschland, Austria, Confoederatio Helvetica), offer an incredibly diverse array of landscapes and architecture to explore. Highlights include the Swiss Alps, mountain lakes, expansive forests, historic castles and cathedrals, and modern architectural feats. The Microsoft Flight Simulator team partnered with Bing Maps, Vexcel Imaging, Maxar Technologies, Gaya Simulations, and Orbx Simulation Systems to bring these countries to the Microsoft Flight Simulator world in all-new ways.”

The update is a rather meaty one, bringing with it a revamp of 10 cities (Linz, Salzburg, and Vienna in Austria; Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Hanau, Karow, and Potsdam in Germany as well as Bern and Zurich in Switzerland) – with the remainder of region also getting a welcome albeit smaller boost in visuals.

Beyond this, the update includes 116 new points of interest (42 in Germany, 38 in Austria, and 36 in Switzerland) as well as 3 new handcrafted airports: Austria’s Salzburg Airport (LOWS), Germany’s Munich Airport (EDDM), and Bern Airport (LSZB) in Switzerland.

Last but not least, the update brings with it 9 additional activities in the form of three discovery flights, three landing challenges, and three bush trips. Microsoft Flight Simulator World Update XVII is available right now.

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In going to Steamdb, it can be seen that Tales of Kenzera: ZAU recently received a small update which “Removed 3rd-Party DRM – Denuvo Anti-tamper.”

Considering the fact that the game just released a few months ago back in April, EA removing DENUVO from Tales of Kenzera: ZAU relatively early is a welcome move.

For the uninitiated, major video game releases are typically front loaded sales-wise, with a large portion of the game’s revenue being amassed from pre-orders and day-one sales – leading publishers to feel as though they need to protect these early sales through DRM such as DENUVO.

DENUVO in particular has historically been the cause of many issues, both performance and graphics related and so its removal only serves to benefit the gaming experience overall.

That said, despite being published by EA, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU is a small project from a small team, and so the inclusion of DENUVO at all was a curious one. Still, its removal is more than welcome.

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Making the announcement via an official reveal trailer, the team at Striking Distance Studios officially unveiled project Birdseye as [REDACTED]: “A fast-action isometric roguelike [in which] a shadowy agent watches Black Iron Prison spiral into chaos. As one of the last guards, fight through monsters, rivals, and reanimated corpses of your fellow guards to escape the penitentiary alive.”

For the uninitiated, Black Iron is described as “a state-of-the-art penitentiary located on Jupiter’s icy moon Callisto” which has been overrun by infected inmates. Of course, fans of the studio’s prior work will be familiar with the setting, as [REDACTED] appears to be set in the same world as The Callisto Protocol.

There is still much to learn about the game, but luckily, those waiting won’t have to do so for long, as the game is set to launch on the 31st of October – just in time for Halloween.

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Making the announcement on Twitter, the official Steam Deck page shared the following:

“Good morning! We’ve just shipped a new feature on Steam that shows when a customer review was written by someone who played primarily on Steam Deck. Keep an eye out for the Deck icon to see how these players reviewed the game, and let us know what you think!”

With the increase in adoption of the Steam Deck it makes a great deal of sense for Deck users to be highlighted as such in reviews – especially as it allows for a more informed purchase. Hopefully Valve continues to cook at this current pace.

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Available for the next 3 weeks, the Resident Evil Decades of Horror Humble Bundle is available in 4 tiers. Paying just £2.35 will net you:

• Resident Evil (HD Remaster/Remake)
• Resident Evil Revelations
• Resident Evil Revelations 2 – Episode 1: Penal Colony

Upping your contribution to £7.85 will get you the above, plus:

• Resident Evil Revelations 2 Deluxe Edition 
• Resident Evil 0 
• Resident Evil 4 (2005) 
• Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition 
• Resident Evil 6 Complete

The 3rd tier costs quite a bit more at £15.70, but adds most of the modern RE entries:

• Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 
• Resident Evil 2 (Remake)
• Resident Evil 3 (Remake)

Finally, the full 11 item bundle costs £23.55 and adds everything above plus:

• Resident Evil Village Gold Edition

As always, a small portion of the money will be going towards charity, with this bundle supporting the ‘Children's Miracle Network Hospitals’ as well as ‘Breakthrough T1D [Type 1 Diabetes]’.

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Sea of Thieves arrived on PS5 in late April 2024, seeing a strong reception from Sony players – with the title reaching the top spot on the PSN Store in May.

While no official sales figures have been shared, according to Windows Central, trusted sources have indicated to the publication that “Sea of Thieves has crossed a million sales on PlayStation since its launch over there, and is most likely higher still since this information came to me.”

With Microsoft focusing on Game Pass for many years now, we don’t actually have official sales figures for Sea of Thieves on other platforms (though it was revealed to have been played by over 40 million people). That said, 1 million copies for a game which is now over 6 years old is certainly an achievement – and is likely why Microsoft is choosing to bring more Xbox games over.

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Launching the 27th of August, Risk of Rain 2 is getting a bespoke PS5 / Xbox Series X release, bringing a ton of welcome and exciting upgrades. Alongside the expected additions – such as 4K60fps – Risk of Rain 2 on current-gen systems will also add local split-screen co-op for the friendly vibes.

The update also brings a few system specific enhancements, with progressive achievements/Trophies on Xbox and PlayStation respectively.

PS5 also gets a few more bonus additions, including the use of the system’s Activities feature as well as lightbar/speaker functionality for the DualSense. It is currently unknown whether the PS5 version will use the controller’s advanced haptics or adaptive triggers – though it seems unlikely.

Regardless, with how hectic Risk of Rain 2 can get in later biomes, having a bespoke 4K60fps version of the game alone is a big upgrade – and so the rest is a pure bonus, especially for free.

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Making the announcement on Twitter, the official Game Awards page announced this year’s showcase, saying:

“Save the Date. THE GAME AWARDS 10th Anniversary Gala Celebration. Thursday, December 12. Streaming Live Everywhere from Peacock Theater in L.A. Public tickets on sale November 1.”

As mentioned above, 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of The Game Awards and so it will be interesting to see what Keighley and the team have planned for the special occasion; hopefully more of a focus on the actual awards.

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As part of the company’s latest investor meeting (and translated by Twitter user Genki_JPN), studio SHIFT UP confirmed that a PC version of Stellar Blade is in the works with the team stating that they are “preparing to release Stellar Blade on PC in the near future.”

While already a certified success on PlayStation (selling over 1 million copies in a couple months), the team expects Stellar Blade to perform even better when it arrives on PC – and given the talk surrounding the game, this wouldn’t be too surprising.

Regardless, it is welcome to see Stellar Blade coming to additional platforms. Hopefully we get a more concrete release window soon enough.

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For many, 40fps represents the perfect compromise between typical graphics and performance modes – offering a Goldilocks-like balanced experience. According to those who have gotten early hands on with the game, Star Wars Outlaws offers 3 different performance options:

• Quality (30fps)
• Favour Quality (40fps)
• Performance (60fps)

While we don’t yet have any detailed comparisons between the versions, based on previous titles expect the 40fps mode to appear visually similar to the 30fps quality mode – but with twice the smoothness.

Of course, we will have to wait and see whether this 40fps mode is able to maintain a steady framerate, but regardless, it is encouraging to see more and more devs supporting 40fps in their console games.

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In going to the PlayStation Plus section on your PS5, you’ll find a list of 12 titles under the ‘Last Chance to Play’ section. Leaving the service at some point next month (likely the 17th) are the following:

• Alien Isolation
• Cloudpunk
• Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Marvel's Midnight Suns
• NieR Replicant
• Spiritfarer
• Star Ocean: First Departure R
• Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness
• Star Ocean: The Divine Force
• Star Ocean: The Last Hope
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

Of course, easily the biggest and most surprising title set to leave is Horizon Forbidden West – not only because of this critical and commercial success, but also due to the fact that it is a first-party PlayStation title.

Oddly enough, one of the few other first-party titles to leave the service was Horizon Zero Dawn a couple months ago – though at the time we speculated it may be due to the long-rumoured remake.

Regardless, PlayStation removing first-party titles from its own service is a major blow to PS Plus as a whole, and sets a troubling precedent for the future of the service.

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Making the announcement on the Xbox Wire blog, Megan Spurr – the Senior Community Lead for Xbox Game Pass revealed the next line-up of games joining the service, saying: “Welcome back, friends! We have more games for you, new Perks, and a limited time beta to talk about!”

With that, the list of titles set to join Game Pass over the next few weeks is as follows:

• Atlas Fallen (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – August 22
• Core Keeper (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – August 27
• Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Early Access Beta – August 30
• Star Trucker (Cloud, Console, and PC) – September 3 [Day One Addition]

As mentioned, the relatively-limited Xbox Game Pass Core library has also gotten a small boost, with the 2nd of its tri-annual updates bringing 3 additional titles later today:

• Cities: Skylines
• Control: Ultimate Edition
• SnowRunner

Unfortunately, as always, Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away – with 3 titles also set to leave the regular Game Pass service on the 31st of August:

• Atomic Heart (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Guilty Gear -Strive- (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• NBA 2K24 (Cloud and Console)

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Releasing a development update via a YouTube video and blogpost, Alex Skidmore – the Creative Director for Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 – and Deputy CEO for Paradox Interactive ‘Mattias Lilja’ shared the following statement:

“We have decided to extend development. This decision gives The Chinese Room extra time to spend on the game to deliver the best Bloodlines 2 they can. The game is in a good place right now, and Paradox and The Chinese Room have decided to prioritize polish over release date.”

Despite yet another delay, the team promised that this latest pushback will allow for additional content to be developed, including “more endings to the game, allowing it to be a more personal story,” while also giving the team space and time “to address feedback from our playtests in our user research lab and also to address the feedback we've been getting from all of you in response to our Dev Diaries and videos.”

Initially intended to release by the end of this year, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will now arrive some time in the first half of 2025. Of course, we will have to wait and see whether this’ll remain the case.

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With the official release date for the PC version of Final Fantasy XVI finally set for the 17th of September, the team at Square Enix have started discussing the wider future of Final Fantasy on PC.

As part of this FFXVI’s director Hiroshi Takai responded to a question asked by GamesRadar+ about the potential for future day-one PC releases, claiming that “I think it's possible – probably even likely. That said, the team in charge of each project gets to decide its own policy, so this is just my personal opinion.”

Despite just being Hiroshi Takai’s opinion, the sentiment seems to be shared by a majority of those at Square Enix – with the publisher already previously announcing plans to move away from timed-exclusivity. It’ll be interesting to see how FFXVI performs on PC and how it will affect Square’s future strategies.

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The latest ShadPS4 bb-hacks branch has brought with it optimisations and more to allow for much further progress into making Bloodborne actually fully playable on PC.

While the last milestone saw the emulator able to boot up Bloodborne all the way to the character creator menu (already a massive improvement over the prior attempts), the game can now be booted into the actual game – technically letting you play through it.

That said, as can be seen from the video, the visuals remain quite messy and so it is clear a lot more work is still necessary to get the game in a playable state. Still, after almost a decade of trying and hoping to get Bloodborne to run on PC, it seems we are closer than ever.

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Making the announcement on Twitter, the official Fortnite account unveiled this latest feature, saying “Hey there, Web Shop. Fortnite Web Shop is live now!! A brand new way to view and purchase items currently in rotation. This Web Shop functions as an extension to the in-game Shop. Including the ability to apply Support-A-Creator codes to purchases!”

While the addition of a web shop is of course purely to incentivise players to purchase more skins and cosmetics (and possibly to avoid platform fees), the added convenience of having a web store is nice for those who are looking for a specific skin.

Furthermore, the web store itself seems pretty comprehensive so far, with you able to view full 3D models of the skins and items.

Given how often the Fortnite shop rotates its available cosmetics, being able to access the shop without needing to download/update Fortnite is a welcome quality of life improvement if nothing else.

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Taking to Twitter, Kojima posted a cryptic image of a silhouetted character alongside the caption “WHO AM I?” – with a logo clearly indicating that this relates to Death Stranding 2.

As mentioned, with Opening Night Live set to begin later today at 7PM UK time, it is highly probable that we will be getting a new DS2 trailer featuring this mysterious character.

So far, just some of the new faces being introduced in the sequel include Elle Fanning; Shioli Kutsuna; Director Fatih Akin and the legendary George Miller of Mad Max fame. Of course, the sequel will also see the likes of Norman Reedus, Léa Seydoux and Troy Baker return to reprise their roles.

Eagle-eyed fans have seemed to figure out who this mysterious new character is, with the consensus being that it is Kenjiro Tsuda – a Japanese actor, voice actor, and film director with an incredibly lengthy list of roles and achievements.

As a voice actor, Tsuda has played the likes of Seto Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh; Hannes in Attack on Titan; Overhaul in My Hero Academia – and dozens if not hundreds of other roles. Perhaps most interestingly, Kenjiro Tsuda already featured in the first Death Stranding, voicing the Japanese dub for protagonist Sam Porter Bridges.

Clearly, based on the teaser, his role in the sequel will include his likeness, and so it is unknown whether he will also return to voice Sam. Regardless, hopefully this teaser is indicating that we’ll be getting a brand new trailer very soon.

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