Stellar Blade (PS5) News Articles
Friday21st Nov 2025
News Stellar Blade Fans Rejoice: Developer Shift Up Now Recruiting for 'Next Work' in the Series
Stellar Blade 2 incoming
South Korean studio Shift Up has begun recruiting for what seems to be a new game in the Stellar Blade series. Stellar Blade is a PS5 console exclusive action game that released last year, quickly becoming a fan favourite. Now, it looks as though the developer is openly hiring for people to work specifically on Stellar...
Tuesday11th Nov 2025
News Stellar Blade Success Helps Korean Games Thrive, Ex PlayStation Boss Believes
Shu Yoshida praises Shift Up title
The success of PS5, PC action title Stellar Blade is the sort of catalyst that could propel the Korean games industry into the mainstream, former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida believes. In an interview with Minimap at the G-Star games exhibition in Busan, Korea, the former PlayStation lead discussed the...
Tuesday30th Sep 2025
News Stellar Blade Ending Extended in New Epilogue Scenes
90 seconds of fresh Xion footage
Seemingly never quite done working on the game, developer Shift Up has pushed yet another free Stellar Blade update live to PS5 and PC today. This time, it has extended one of the three endings with a selection of short epilogue scenes. The clips don't amount to much; they're more comical than anything else and...
Wednesday24th Sep 2025
News More Free Updates for PS5 Fan Favourite Stellar Blade Planned
New quests available later today
As previously teased, Stellar Blade is adding new quests on the PS5 today – and there’ll be a “small gift” available for those who complete them all. The new missions will be found on the Bulletin Board in Xion, but there’s no word at the time of writing about what they’ll actually entail. We’re...
Friday19th Sep 2025
News Stellar Blade Tease Appears to Hint at New Horror DLC
Silent Hill content, perhaps?
Shift Up may not be done with making new Stellar Blade content just yet, as the Korean developer has put out a teasing post this evening that seems to hint at upcoming horror-themed DLC. With the caption "In one week...", the studio posted the following: Next Thursday marks the release of Silent Hill F, which could...
Monday4th Aug 2025
News Stellar Blade PS5, PC Support Still Ongoing as New Patch Goes Live
Patch 1.013 on PS5, patch 1.3.0 on PC
Shift Up has today pushed a new Stellar Blade patch live for the PS5 and PC versions of the game, updating them both with some minor bug fixes. Over a year after its release, Shift Up continues to provide Stellar Blade with technical improvements. With a sequel now confirmed to be in the works, it's probably...
Tuesday22nd Jul 2025
News Stellar Blade Dev Will Take 'Every Measure' to Ensure Social Media Hack Never Happens Again
After ne'er-do-wells launched cryptocurrency scam
Stellar Blade maker Shift Up is having to fight off hackers, as its X (or Twitter) account has been compromised and is promoting a cryptocurrency scam. The game’s director Hyung-Tae Kim has been communicating with fans on social media, urging them not to interact with anything the page posts. He...
Wednesday2nd Jul 2025
News Stellar Blade Has Free Gifts for PS5, PC Players in New Update
As a "token of appreciation" from Shift Up
Stellar Blade developer Shift Up wishes to thank its PS5, PC playerbase in the game's latest update by handing out free gifts and rewards. Available to download now as patch 1.012 on PS5 and patch 1.2.0 on PC, the update is a "token of appreciation for all the love and support from our players". By...
Saturday28th Jun 2025
Random Stellar Blade Dev Gives Insane Anatomically Accurate Explanation of Why Butts Are Beautiful
Talking ass
Stellar Blade is well regarded for the proportions of its boisterous protagonist Eve, but it turns out director Hyung-tae Kim is a bit of connoisseur when it comes to human anatomy. In an interview with a Korean channel, the game’s director – who also did a lot of the early character designs and concept art for the title – gave an...
Wednesday18th Jun 2025
News Stellar Blade Dev Says 'Nothing Confirmed' Regarding Switch 2 Port Rumours
As all employees receive Nintendo's new machine
Korean developer Shift Up says “nothing has been confirmed” regarding rumours of a Switch 2 port of its PS5 and PC smash hit, Stellar Blade. The studio celebrated its continued expansion earlier today by gifting all employees Nintendo’s new console. You may recall, it previously rewarded all of...
Tuesday17th Jun 2025
News 'The Story Is Weak': Stellar Blade Dev Acknowledges PS5, PC Fave's Biggest Flaw
Played out
As we wrote in our original Stellar Blade PS5 review, the story is a bit rubbish. Don’t get us wrong, we enjoyed the vibes and some of the beats, but it all felt a bit trite and lost its way over the course of the release’s running time. Fortunately, games with lousy stories can still be fun, as it’s the moment-to-moment action...
Monday16th Jun 2025
News Stellar Blade Thrives on PC, 1 Million Copies Sold in 3 Days
Three million units across PS5, PC
Stellar Blade has now sold over three million copies across both its PS5 and PC versions, developer Shift Up confirmed. The PC version gave the action title a considerable boost, as the team reports it sold one million units in just three days. After making a splash on PS5 last year, Sony acted as publisher for...
Thursday12th Jun 2025
News Stellar Blade Goes Nuclear on PC, Obliterates All Sony Single Player Records on Steam
Eve-y peasy
Stellar Blade has released on PC, and it's instantly set a new record for Sony. The hit action title racked up an impressive 99,980 concurrent players on Steam at launch, which is more than any previous Sony-published, single player game has managed. Of course, the single player caveat is necessary here since Helldivers 2 was such a...
Saturday7th Jun 2025
News Stellar Blade's Story Continues in Monstrous NIKKE: Goddess of Victory Crossover
Can collecting! Minigames! Costumes! More!
Shift Up boss Hyung-tae Kim has described both character action game Stellar Blade and smartphone smash hit NIKKE: Goddess of Victory as “akin to his children”, and so his company is going above and beyond with this upcoming collaboration.
Friday6th Jun 2025
News Stellar Blade's New Body Double Teases Outfit from Upcoming DLC
Yoon Seol-hwa models upcoming looks
While the body of Stellar Blade’s Eve was originally based on Shin Jae-eun, the character appears to have a new double these days. We reported previously that cosplayer Yoon Seol-hwa had stepped into the high heels of the heroine, and it looks like the same is true for the game’s upcoming
Monday2nd Jun 2025
News Stellar Blade Split-Screen Mode Goes Viral, But Isn't Strictly Real
Double trouble
It's been reported that at one point in Stellar Blade’s lifecycle, Shift Up was planning to double down on the fun. A so-called secret unused co-op mode was alleged to have been uncovered by modders, but is actually just a function of Unreal Engine 5. The footage found by a
Sunday1st Jun 2025
News Stellar Blade Dev Massively Upgrades 3D Scanning Tech Ahead of Sequel
Eye sore
The Korean developer behind Stellar Blade has massively upgraded its 3D scanning rig, ahead of the release of the title’s hotly anticipated sequel. The follow-up, which the studio already said would release by 2027, will almost certainly launch on the PS5 as Sony served as the publisher on the original game across both PC and console...
Friday30th May 2025
News Stellar Blade's Inclusion in Saucy Smartphone Shooter NIKKE to Get Livestream Next Week
In the NIKKE of time
Stellar Blade’s collaboration with saucy smartphone shooter NIKKE: Goddess of Victory will be officially unveiled next week on 7th June, as part of a livestream for the popular game. A new screenshot shows artwork of one of Eve’s camps, complete with vending machine and record player. This is likely going to entail a
Friday23rd May 2025
News Stellar Blade PS5, PC Fans Are Already Simping Over New Boss Character Scarlet
You better beli-Eve it
In the smartphone game NIKKE: Goddess of Victory from Shift Up, Scarlet is a high-tier Pilgrim unit who wields a Yedo sword. The game being a shooter, said blade functions more like an assault rifle, but it obviously makes the character a perfect fit for Stellar Blade. And now the Kore
Thursday22nd May 2025
News Stellar Blade PS5, PC's NIKKE Minigame Looks Like Tremendous Fun
Gun game
For those who don’t play NIKKE: Goddess of Victory, it’s an arcade-style cover-based shooter, where pretty girls wield humongous firearms from behind convenient knee-high walls. And that exact same gameplay has been converted to Stellar Blade, as part of a new minigame which will feature as part of the release’s upcoming crossover...
Monday19th May 2025
News Stellar Blade PS5, PC Will Add a Boss Battle with One of NIKKE's Most Popular Characters
Here comes a new challenger
When the Stellar Blade Complete Edition was officially announced, developer Shift Up mentioned there’d be a new boss battle against Mann, the beefy personal bodyguard of Orcal from the main campaign. But now new language on PlayStation.com confirms we’ll also be facing off against one of
Thursday15th May 2025
News Sony Makes Stellar Blade Complete Edition for PS5, PC Official, Some Outfits Revealed
Out on 11th June
Shift Up has revealed it's releasing a Complete Edition of its excellent PS5 game Stellar Blade on 11th June 2025, which also marks the title's debut on PC. The release will bundle together the base game, all of the original pre-order bonuses, the two expansions themed around NieR Automata and NIKKE: Goddess of Victory, an
Monday12th May 2025
And it's only May
The levels of praise for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 have been off the charts since it launched a few weeks back, and now that more people are rolling credits on the RPG, it's getting some additional Game of the Year talk. Case in point: Kim Hyung-tae, director of Stellar Blade and founder of its developer, Shift Up, has taken to...
Sunday11th May 2025
News Stellar Blade Dev Shows Off Silky Smooth Steam Deck Gameplay
Decked out
Ahead of the game’s hotly anticipated PC port next month, Korean dev Shift Up has shown off Stellar Blade running cleanly on the Steam Deck. The short X (or Twitter) clip features a few seconds of off-screen footage, as well-endowed swordstress Eve wrestles with some Naytibas in the game’s
Friday25th Apr 2025
News Stellar Blade's Eve Will Seemingly Be Playable in Spicy Smartphone Game
Well, would you beli-Eve it?
We know that the next major Stellar Blade update, due out alongside the PS5 favourite’s PC port in June, will feature outfits inspired by Korean dev Shift Up’s NIKKE: Goddess of Victory. But now we also know heroine Eve is almost certainly coming to the spicy smartphone shooter as well. While it’s not been...
Friday18th Apr 2025
News Stellar Blade's Hyper-Realistic $3,600 Statues Sold Out in Minutes
That didn't take long
Hyper-realistic model manufacturer JND Studios, a company based in Korea, is working on a statue of Stellar Blade’s Eve. You can see some of the firm’s previous work on its website, and its extraordinarily high-quality. It’s also unlikely to be for those without bulging bank balances – you’re looking at prices of up...
Thursday17th Apr 2025
News Stellar Blade Director Is Now One of the Richest People in Korea
Korea paths
Kim Hyung-tae's rise to billionaire-level riches is pretty damn impressive. Having started out as a video game artist, Kim would go on to establish Shift Up, the development studio behind PS5 hit Stellar Blade — and now he's worth a not-so-small fortune. According to Forbes, Kim is now counted amongst the 50 richest people in Korea,...
Monday31st Mar 2025
Random This Stellar Blade Super Fan Sleeps with Eve Every Night
Sweet dreams
A Stellar Blade super fan, who claims to have played the PS5 console exclusive for over 1,100 hours, has shown off their shrine to heroine Eve. The impressive collection includes framed pictures, mugs, steel books, and acrylic stands. But the pièce de resistance is the bed set, which includes a massive image of the heroine’s face...
Friday14th Mar 2025
News Stellar Blade Reveals Massive PC Frame Rate Improvements with Cutting-Edge Nvidia Tech
Up to 350fps in 4K on GeForce RTX 5090
Stellar Blade is coming to PC in June, with Sony acting as publisher on the smash Shift Up character action game. It’ll also be taking full advantage of Nvidia’s latest line of graphics cards, as this impressive gameplay demonstration showcases. In it, we see how DLSS 4 technology and frame generation can...
Wednesday12th Feb 2025
News PS5 Favourite Stellar Blade Plays Dress Up with NIKKE DLC, Coming to PC in June
Big updates for Shift Up hit
Yes, Stellar Blade is adding crossover content inspired by smartphone gacha game, NIKKE: Goddess of Victory. It looks like you’ll be able to dress heroine Eve in a variety of outfits from the mobile title, including Rapi, Alice, Dorothy, and more. There’ll also be
