Stranger Than Heaven to include Tupac as a character
RGG Studio confirmed at Summer Game Fest 2026 that Stranger Than Heaven, published by Sega, will include Tupac Shakur as an in-game character with permission from the Tupac estate. The studio set a release date of 15 January 2027 and released a trailer naming cast members such as Kuroda Takaya; the specific voice actor for Tupac has not been revealed. Including Tupac, a high-profile deceased artist, guarantees mainstream attention and raises questions about the use of posthumous likenesses in story-driven games.
Tu Pac announced Stranger Than Heaven, game out Jan 15th, 2027
Wario64104Snoop Dogg on stage for Stranger Than Heaven. "I'm a big fan of SEGA" - Snoop Snoop Dogg says he works very closely with the Tu Pac estate Death Row Games - "bringing to life in a couple months"
porkfriedrice.bsky.social70this is how I find out Tupac is alive???
Queso36God I hope they don't use AI for his voice or something
yeaitsme1015.bsky.social32That honestly is a bit disturbing to me. Also Lap Dogg in the game is also disappointing.
sean24Confirmation Tupac went to Heaven
90daysensei.bsky.social14Hate to be the friend that’s too woke but i don’t love that choice
wawahoagiefest.bsky.social13Um... Don't know how I feel about this
👾LockeWick👾10The moment any interest I had for the game completely faded away.
RealBoomerghost6we got Tupac back before gta6
Cold stone Steve ice cream6I really don't think he did
Now watch Nagoshi add Biggie Smalls to Gang of Dragon.
Dom Rocco6I was really psyched for this game and if this is some AI bastard Tupac I'm out
Zac!5Snoop helping a bunch of dorks make money off a dead artist makes perfect sense.
Goblin In A Jacket3tu pac didn't announce shit, he's been dead for decades.
🍉wooooooooods3Either he is completely mute or Snoop’s joining Drake at Oakland
Watcher at the Gate2So dumb and so shady
Chiropi_NocturnaVT2I honestly feel so disturbed by this. Like idc if Snoop is "working closely" with Tupac's estate or whatever; this seems just straight-up disrespectful to me. They're puppeting a dead man as entertainment. How is that okay?
Blaster13602Well, I guess that's one way to piss on someone's grave.
Everyone relax, I will be voicing Tupac in Stranger Than Heaven
look, okay: Bunta Sugawara is in Stranger than Heaven, and he's been dead for a while Toshiro Mifune is in Onimusha: Way of the Sword, so same but I'm not sure how I feel about Tupacuza Origins here
Lucifer Hunklehead2Feels tacky, but not anymore tacky than the, like, 5 or 6 posthumous albums "by" Tupac that have come out. Whatever ick factor this has is kind of flattened by those existing already
George J. Horvath2Yeah, & Onimusha 2 used Yusaku Masuda, who was dead by then too My first reaction to the complaints was "Wait, did we learn something horrific about Tupac that I didn't know about?", because using a dead guy in a video game has been done before. Hell, SRW still re-uses voice work from dead people.
The inclusion of Tupac in Stranger Than Heaven alone was already gross enough to make me think it was gonna be a pass but this just confirms that. RGG is so fucking cooked.
DunnieBITES!3I already knew RGG was falling off pretty bad given everything else they’ve been doing, but like This is such a genuine deeply unpleasant surprise and *nobody* seems pleased about it. Like they went “how do we piss off the most amount of people at one time?”
CDJohnny2This just confirms to me that the ONLY true prequel will always be Yakuza 0. Fuck RGG and their new bullshit.
