The South Korean studio working on Stellar Blade 2 recently announced a measure which risks causing controversy on a particularly hot topic in the news.
After the huge hit that was Stellar Blade when it is released in 2024 on PS5, then the following year on PChis studio Shift Up quickly announced that it was working on a suitewhich could also arrive during 2026/2027. Such a supposedly short development, however, turns out to be quite surprising, but a recent statement from its director may have provided some clues… for better or for worse? Let’s take a closer look at all this.
A Stellar Blade 2 even less human than the first?
On the occasion of a recent national committee entitled “ Economic Growth Strategy 2026 – The First Year of Korea’s Great Leap Forward “, Kim Hyung-tae, CEO of Shift Up, the studio currently developing Stellar Blade 2, among other titlesgave a speech focused on the importance of artificial intelligence in the video game industry. Its angle of attack mainly focuses on… competition with Chinese studios.
« 80% of our income comes from abroad. However, abroad, the first thing we encounter is Chinese games. While we place 150 people on the creation of a game, China does it with between 1,000 and 2,000 people. We lack the manpower to compete with them “, said the CEO of the studio behind Stellar Blade 2. “ I don’t think AI will replace human workers, but we need employees who can use this technology so that one person can do the work of 100 others. Only in this way can we compete with industries like those of China and the United States ».
The Korean Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, also present at this committee, shared the sentiments of the CEO of the studio currently working on Stellar Blade 2. “ Supporting AI in the video game industry is a crucial task. Large companies in the sector already have their own AI technology and are developing programs to grow together with small or medium-sized studios “, he declared, and the CEO of Shift Up precisely “ this year to invest and allocate budget to support smaller studios so that they can use AI “. Will the continuation of EVE’s adventures have the same flavor as the very popular Stellar Blade with such emphasis on AI? The future will tell us.
Source : GameMeca
