Overview
- South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism honored Kim at the 2025 Korea Content Awards for strengthening the nation’s games industry.
- Kim credited Shift Up’s developers and fans in brief remarks and pledged to keep advancing the global competitiveness of Korean games.
- Stellar Blade’s June PC release became a Steam hit, setting a new concurrent-player record for PlayStation single‑player titles on PC.
- Shift Up has confirmed a Stellar Blade sequel, with timing signals diverging between a reported 2026 target and a window listed as by the end of 2027.
- The studio’s pipeline includes Project Spirits under a publishing deal with Tencent’s Level Infinite, while a Switch 2 port of Stellar Blade is reported and Nikke has topped $1 billion in revenue this year.