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Stellar Blade studio says it is "closely discussing the region lock issue" with PlayStation


Developer Shift Up said it was "closely discussing the region lock issue" with Sony after it became apparent yesterday,…

In a brief statement posted to social media, the developer stressed it was doing its "BEST" to resolve "most of" the issue as soon as possible and would come back to players "as soon as [it] has more to share". Watch on YouTube After players also discovered that Denuvo has been incorporated in the PC version of Stellar Blade, much to the annoyance of some, the studio also took the opportunity to provide a chart to demonstrate DRM had been "hard-tuned to maintain the same average frame rate, with even higher minimum frames in some cases". We will make sure that early buyers are never at a disadvantage through future updates," the studio stressed.

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