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Death Stranding: Director’s Cut gets rid of some of the grind

Hideo Kojima is hard at work on Death Stranding: Director’s Cut, and it looks like he’s getting rid of some of the grind.

In a demo shown at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, the new version of the game from Kojima Productions showed how you can now make your deliveries across difficult terrain without going through the grind of carrying huge loads of suitcases through mountainous regions.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.