The Game Awards‘ Geoff Keighley announced today that Opening Night Live, a pre-show for Gamescom, will be held on August 19 and will feature Hideo Kojima premiering an exclusive new look at the upcoming Death Stranding.
Exited to announce @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN will be live in Cologne during @gamescom Opening Night Live on Monday, August 19 to premiere a exclusive new look at DEATH STRANDING. ONL will stream around the world across all major platforms! pic.twitter.com/HYD9UZXS1J
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) August 6, 2019
Although there are no details on what ‘an exclusive new look’ at Kojima’s next game entails, it is plausibly new footage of Death Stranding, maybe even more gameplay. The most recent content Kojima shared was the Heartman cutscene, in which we met the titular BRIDGES scientist that dies every 21 minutes, living in the world of the dead before being revived. Speculating from this, Kojima might show off the mechanic where Sam must navigate this other realm after death, and how the ‘Strands’ between players are formed.
I strongly doubt, however, that whatever is revealed in two weeks time will help us understand what Death Stranding is, or was. Or will be. But the fact that Kojima is happy to appear on stage and show more of the game means that perhaps his ‘crunch time of dev’ comment was lost in translation, and everything’s comfortably on track for launch later this year.
Death Stranding will release exclusively for PlayStation 4 on November 8.
