Stellar Blade studio Shift Up has recently provided lots of gifts including an Apple Watch, Airpods Max along with a hefty $3400 cash bonus to it’s entire team and this isn’t the first time the company has gifted all of it’s 300 plus staff either, according to the South Economic Daily. The studio of Stellar Blade has previously stated that the reason it provides the gifts to it’s staff and employees is to help retain and encourage the talent in the company.
Back in 2025, the studio behind the highly popular Stellar Blade also gifted all of it’s developers and employees massive bonuses in the form of a Playstation 5 Pro as well as huge bonus in cash. Moreover, when Stellar Blade had hit the sales milestone of a total 3 million sold units worldwide back in June last year, the staff in the studio was gifted a Nintendo Switch 2. In fact, developer Shift Up also has a pretty rare record of gifting it’s employees in both 2024 and 2023 with pre-paid credit cards along with the latest iPhones, among other bonuses as well.
In an era when huge megacorporations don’t even hesitate to replace living humans with AI and are swift to permanently cut down large number of jobs, it’s quite rare and certainly refreshing to see a company like Shift Up actually cherishing their human workforce. These generous acts also serve as a fitting reminder that it’s ultimately not the technologies that make a videogame special but the living human developers and workers who are absolutely irreplaceable in every possible way.
The PC version of Stellar Blade had also earned the title of being the best-selling PlayStation exclusive on PC in 2025, surpassing other AAA heavyweights such as Marvel’s Spider-Man, God of War, Ghost of Tshushima and more.
In other news of Stellar Blade, the game’s sequel or Stellar Blade 2 is expected to go multiplatform which also indicates the possibility of Stellar Blade releasing for the Xbox systems as well as the Switch 2 at some point. Plus, a Stellar Blade x Silent Hill crossover is also teased, indicating even more exciting contents in the pipeline for the 2024 action title.
