Overview
- RGG Studio and SEGA revealed at Summer Game Fest that Tupac Shakur will appear in Stranger Than Heaven as a character named Amaru with permission and ongoing supervision from Amaru Entertainment.
- The companies said the character model was created without generative AI and was built from archival photos and footage, a claim they announced on Friday during the game's trailer reveal.
- Stranger Than Heaven is scheduled to launch January 15, 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC and will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass.
- Snoop Dogg and his son Cordell Broadus are both in the cast and Snoop joined the stage to explain the estate collaboration while the trailer shows Tupac’s likeness but not any spoken performance, leaving voice work and the size of the role unclear.
- The announcement has drawn mixed public reaction and renewed debate about the ethics of posthumous likenesses in media, recalled past recreations such as the 2012 Tupac hologram, and is likely to sharpen scrutiny of how games use estates and AI claims going forward.