Death Stranding 2 game premiere: Los Angeles event and full stream

The Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Game Premiere took place on 8 June 2025 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The studio scheduled the program for 7 p.m. Pacific time. Geoff Keighley hosted the evening with Hideo Kojima. The program combined a stage discussion, guests from the game and the first live gameplay presentation. The event also opened Kojima Productions’ 12-stop World Strand Tour 2.

Kojima Productions announced Elle Fanning, Troy Baker, Shioli Kutsuna and Woodkid as special guests. The studio’s later tour recap confirms a panel with Kojima, Woodkid, Kutsuna and Baker, followed by the first live gameplay footage shown to an audience. The full PlayStation recording remains available below.

Los Angeles was followed by events in Sydney, Tokyo, Paris, London, Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Riyadh, São Paulo and Lucca. The formats changed from city to city, with panels, exhibitions, performances and fan sessions. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach released for PlayStation 5 on 26 June 2025, eighteen days after the Los Angeles event.

Sources: the Kojima Productions event announcement, the studio’s World Strand Tour 2 recap, PlayStation’s release-date post and the Game Informer report.