Stellar Blade
Stellar Blade is finally emerging from its PlayStation prison, the former exclusive at last heading to PC where it can reach a much wider audience. Stellar Blade is out on PC tonight or tomorrow, depending on your region, and SHIFTUP has released the list of launch times, which you can check out below:
June 11, 2025
- LA – 3 PM PDT
- Mexico City – 4 PM CST
- New York – 6 PM EDT
- Sao Paolo – 7 PM BRT
- London – 11 PM BST
June 12, 2025
- Paris – 12 AM CEST
- Stockholm – 12 AM CEST
- Johannesburg – 12 AM SAST
- Dubai – 2 AM GST
- Beijing – 6 AM CST
- Seoul – 7 AM KST
- Tokyo – 7 AM JST
- Sydney – 9 AM AEDT
So, if you’re in the US, by the time you read this it may just be a few hours away, or already launched and you can play for half the day. Everyone else has a late night or early morning ahead of them.
The PC release of Stellar Blade comes just over a year after the PS5 release, which was on April 26, 2024. The debut AAA offering from SHIFTUP, previously known for mobile games like Goddess of Victory: Nikke, was a big success. It was one of the best action games of the year and sold a million units just over a month after release. For that team, for a new IP, that’s stellar, pun intended. Now, a sequel is on the way.
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Stellar Blade
The game has been updated over the time with some new gameplay elements, though most of the updates focused on adding dozens of new costumes for Eve, its hero. The game and Eve were the center of a strange sort of culture war skirmish where there was a constant refrain of “this is what female video game characters should look like” and she’s still referenced in that capacity to this day.
None of that really matters in the end. Stellar Blade is a great action game on its own merits whether you clothe Eve in a sweatshirt or a bikini. It’s in the vein of Devil May Cry mixed with Bayonetta and I put fifty hours into the single player offering with a NG+ playthrough. It was one of my top games of last year, and I highly recommend it for PC players who haven’t given it a shot yet. If you like action games, I don’t think you’ll regret it.
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