The developer of "Sword Star" sends PS5 Pro to all employees! There is an additional 5 million won!
SHIFT UP, a game developer led by well-known artist Kim Hyung-tae, was successfully listed on the Korean stock market in 2024 with the popularity of the PS5 exclusive masterpiece "Sword Star" and the stable performance of "Victory Goddess: Nikki". With the arrival of 2025, "Sword Star" officially announced the New Year event of SHIFT UP, generously giving each employee a PS5 Pro, so that everyone can play "Sword Star" in 4K high quality, which aroused enthusiastic attention!
Activity Photos of the scene were also released, showing an astonishing "hill" made of stacked PS5 Pros. It turns out that these are all New Year's gifts from the company to its employees! In addition, according to reports from Korean media Naver, in addition to PS5 Pro, each employee will also receive an additional bonus of 5 million won to reward all employees for their hard work, making netizens envious.
"Sword Star" official also specially launched a humorous short film generated by AI, saying: "Although there were some episodes during the event, it ended successfully." The video showed that the PS5 Pro hill suddenly exploded, transformed and assembled into a PS5 Pro version of "Transformers".
Facts Before the official launch of "Sword Star" in 2024, SHIFT UP had given out PS5 as a reward to thank the company's 260 employees for their efforts, and also celebrated the game's debut at the PlayStation Showcase, which also triggered a wave of enthusiasm among netizens. The company was praised as a conscientious enterprise.
Looking forward to 2025, SHIFT UP has confirmed that it will launch the PC version of "Sword Star" within this year. It is expected that the performance of the game on the PC platform will surpass that of the console version. In addition, the linkage event between "Sword Star" and "Victory Goddess: Nikki" was officially announced previously, which makes all players who love "Sword Star" full of expectations for the new year. This year will undoubtedly be a happy year for fans of "Sword Star"!