Shift Up made an appearance during today's Summer Game Fest 2026 show, with its follow-up game to Stellar Blade revealed to be Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. While the first game followed Eve, Blood Rain focuses on a new protagonist, Evie, which certainly won't confuse anyone. Shift Up calls Blood Rain "the next chapter" in the Stellar Blade franchise, one that goes "beyond" the events of the first game. We've known that Shift Up was working on a sequel for a while now, so today's announcement was always just a case of when it would reveal rather than if it would […]

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While the studio has existed for quite some time, SHIFT UP got its big break back in 2024 when they released the PS5 console exclusive Stellar Blade – a PlayStation published action-adventure title which feels like a mix of NieR: Automata and Devil May Cry. In the wake of its success, the team announced that a sequel to Stellar Blade was in the works. Though we have yet to see anything from the project, SHIFT UP have now confirmed a number of details pertaining to this much-anticipated follow-up.

Making the announcement as part of the company’s latest fiscal earnings report, studio SHIFT UP offered updates on a number of their in-development projects.

Of course, Stellar Blade is perhaps the most well-known, with the team revealing that the sequel is “progressing smoothly, on track to meet our targeted quality standard.”

While the first game was published by PlayStation, Stellar Blade’s sequel will instead be self-published, with SHIFT UP claiming that this “will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP.”

In terms of when to expect this upcoming title, the team did not offer any concrete dates. That said, they did confirm that “details” surrounding the much-anticipated sequel will “be revealed within the year” and so hopefully we will learn more sooner rather than later.

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