Stellar Blade might not be everyone's cup of tea, but when the entire staff gets a PS5 Pro and $3.4k as a year-end bonus after a year full of layoffs, you can't help but cut back on it.

yes, Stellar Blade it's not to everyone's taste, but all the staff got a cash bonus with a PS5 Pro, which is really nice.

Depending on who you ask, Stellar Blade is either a game not even worth recognizing, the most important game ever made, or just finehonestly. The conversation around it has been mostly boring, especially in what has been such a rough year for the games industry, so how about some good news from the developer Shift Up! As observed by VGCa representative of Shift Up recently spoke to a South Korean outlet Navarrewhere it was shared that all around 300 employees at the studio were given a PS5 Pro – that bloody expensive consul people have stopped talking about it – and that they will also get a bonus of 5 million won (which is about $3400).

According to the representative, the intention behind the bonuses was to encourage the existing talent at the company. Considering how many layoffs happened last year (estimated to be over 14,000), it's encouraging to hear that a company really wants to keep their employees and even reward them. for them – let's hope the workers' salaries are healthy enough without the bonuses too.

Stellar Blade's initial sales were modest compared to Sony's other big titles, estimated at around a million, but for a new IP it's a healthy start, and with its PC release coming this year and expect Shift Up to sell even better there, I'm sure the developer isn't that worried. His only concern is a lawsuit filed against him and Sony last September over the game's client, Stellar Blade, because a film company, Stellarblade, has to say that the use of the name harms the business and infringes on it. the trademark.