{"id":682889,"date":"2026-04-06T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/death-strandings-launch-on-pc-game-pass-did-not-involve-sony"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:00:53","slug":"death-strandings-launch-on-pc-game-pass-did-not-involve-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/death-strandings-launch-on-pc-game-pass-did-not-involve-sony\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Stranding&#8217;s launch on PC Game Pass did not involve Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/death-strandings-launch-on-pc-game-pass-did-not-involve-sony.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Just last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/death-stranding-coming-to-pc-game-pass\">rumours were confirmed<\/a> to be true when it was officially revealed that Death Stranding will be soon arriving on PC Game Pass. So soon, in fact, that subscribers will be able to install and play the game tomorrow, August 23.<\/p>\n<p>Sony has since gone on to share a statement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2022\/08\/sony-had-no-involvement-in-death-stranding-deal-with-pc-game-pass\">PushSquare<\/a>, stating that &#8220;Matters relating to the PC release of Death Stranding are managed by Kojima Productions and 505 Games,&#8221; and that &ldquo;[Sony Interactive Entertainment] has no involvement in this promotion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t already know, Sony owns and funded Death Stranding. This certainly is far from the first and last time that a Sony title has made its way onto Game Pass, but this is one of the rare occasions in which many of us are left asking exactly how Kojima Productions and 505 brought Death Stranding to the rival subscription service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/death-strandings-launch-on-pc-game-pass-did-not-involve-sony\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/death-strandings-launch-on-pc-game-pass-did-not-involve-sony\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just last week, rumours were confirmed to be true when it was officially revealed that Death Stranding will be soon arriving on PC Game Pass. So soon, in fact, that subscribers will be able to install and play the game tomorrow, August 23. Sony has since gone on to share a statement with PushSquare, stating that &#8220;Matters relating to the PC release of Death Stranding are managed by Kojima Productions and 505 Games,&#8221; and that &ldquo;[Sony Interactive Entertainment] has no involvement in this promotion.&rdquo; In case you didn&#8217;t already know, Sony owns and funded Death Stranding. This certainly is far from the first and last time that a Sony title has made its way onto Game Pass, but this is one of the rare occasions&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/death-strandings-launch-on-pc-game-pass-did-not-involve-sony\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":682890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1596,259,625,1367,134,424,59,6553,46],"class_list":["post-682889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-505-games","tag-action-adventure","tag-death-stranding","tag-kojima-productions","tag-microsoft","tag-open-world","tag-pc","tag-pc-game-pass","tag-sony"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Death Stranding&#039;s launch on PC Game Pass did not involve Sony | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just last week, rumours were confirmed to be true when it was officially revealed that Death Stranding will be soon arriving on PC Game Pass. 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