Summary
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach premieres June 8, 2025, featuring gameplay, special guests, and Hideo Kojima commentary.
- Kojima Productions plans a Death Stranding 2 World Tour post-premiere to promote the game into November 2025.
Fans eager for news about Death Stranding 2: On the Beach may want to mark June 8, 2025 on their calendars, as creator Hideo Kojima has teased a major reveal event for the game. Death Stranding 2 is set to launch on June 26, 2025 for PlayStation 5.
With Death Stranding 2 less than a month away from its full release, Kojima Productions' promotional machine is getting ready to drum up excitement for the highly anticipated sequel. That said, it may not need much help to get fans and onlookers interested. In the years since its original release in 2019, more and more players have realized the many unique qualities of Death Stranding that set it apart from other open world titles. This reevaluation has given the game an opportunity to increase its reputation away from its initial mixed reception, where players and reviewers were off-put by its unusual pace and structure.
Death Stranding 2 Adds VTuber to Its Cast of Characters
Kojima Productions reveals that Death Stranding 2: On The Beach will feature a popular Vtuber as an NPC that players will encounter.
Now Kojima Productions is planning to introduce even more people to Death Stranding 2 ahead of release, through an official Death Stranding 2 Game Premiere event scheduled for June 8, 2025 at 7pm PT. The event itself will be hosted in person by Geoff Keighley at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, California, as well as broadcast via YouTube. According to the event description, the premiere event will feature live gameplay from Death Stranding 2, a panel with special guests, and commentary from series creator Hideo Kojima himself. Though it's not officially part of the Summer Game Fest 2025 program, the premiere event's timing builds on earlier announcements that Kojima would be attending SGF 2025 and appear onstage.
When is the Death Stranding 2 Game Premiere Event?
Announcing the 🎮 DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH – Game Premiere event! Step inside the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, where Hideo Kojima will join host Geoff Keighley to celebrate the game’s upcoming launch with special guests and an exclusive live demonstration of DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH. [Image or embed] — KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS en (@en.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp) May 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
- Sunday, June 8 at 7pm PT
The Death Stranding 2 premiere event will also serve as the opening salvo in Kojima Productions' planned Death Stranding 2 World Tour, a globe-trotting promotional sprint for the game. Running from June 8 and past the game's release date into November, the world tour will feature special guests and events fans can look forward to. Like the tour events, the premiere will allow fans to attend in person, though the premiere requires the purchase of a ticket.
Between the world tour and the premiere, it looks like Kojima Productions is quite confident about Death Stranding 2's chances for success. It has reason to be, given how excited many fans are to learn more about the game. Death Stranding has done so well for the studio that Kojima himself had to decline requests from celebrities wanting to cameo in Death Stranding 2. With luck the game itself will live up to the huge amount of hype anticipating it.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 90 /100 Critics Rec: 95%
- Released
- June 26, 2025
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ // Violence, Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Strong Language
- Developer(s)
- Kojima Productions
- Publisher(s)
- Sony Interactive Entertainment
