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Additional “Death Stranding” Casting Revealed Out of E3
The new Death Stranding trailer released during Sony’s E3 2018 briefing confirmed two new high-profile actresses have joined Hideo Kojima‘s mysterious PlayStation 4 game, says Gamespot. The site reports that Lea Seydoux and Lindsay Wagner will have roles in Death Stranding, and their in-game character models are based on their real-life appearance.
Seydoux (pictured above in Spectre) and Wagner (The Bionic Woman) join other big names featured in the game including The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus, who plays Death Stranding’s main character, as well as Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen and Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water).
“Sony’s press conference offered an extended look at the game while still not revealing much about what you do in it. We again see the invisible enemies who are apparently blind. Reedus’s character can be seen moving through a variety of environments before meeting up with a woman who helps him to avoid detection from the invisible monsters. He later is seen with a piece of equipment that is strapped to his back which can seemingly reveal their positions temporarily, but we remain very much in the dark about any specifics–we’re really just grasping at straws to piece things together.”
Death Stranding is currently in development for PlayStation 4 and PC. No release date has been announced.
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.
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