Shift Up, the South Korean studio behind the successful game Stellar Blade, has announced that it will massively implement artificial intelligence (AI) tools in its development process. This decision responds to the need to compete with international giants, especially in a market increasingly dominated by Chinese companies. Hyung-tae Kim, CEO of the studio, emphasizes that the integration of AI will not only improve productivity but also allow a single employee to effectively manage the work that previously required 100 people. Stellar Slope The growing influence of titles like Black Myth: Wukong and Where Winds […]
The growing influence of titles like Black Myth: Wukong and Where Winds Meet has prompted South Korea to rethink its approach to video game development. Kim emphasizes that the adoption of AI is essential for Korean studios, such as Shift Up, to remain competitive against these industry giants. The studio’s strategy includes a shift in its development philosophy and work model, thus seeking to maximize productivity and adapt to market demands.
With the success of Stellar Blade at its launch for PS5 and the upcoming development of a sequel, Shift Up is strategically positioning itself in the international arena. However, before tackling a new triple-A game, the studio will release Project Spirits, a mobile project inherited from Goddess of Victory: Nikke. This move reflects a transition towards a more digital and agile approach in its production.
As the video game industry debates the impact of generative AI, the Shift Up initiative could represent a significant evolution in the way video games are created and developed in South Korea and beyond. However, it remains to be seen whether this transformation will yield the expected results and establish Shift Up in the competitive global landscape.
In the recent MMO Where Winds Meet, players face an unexpected and powerful enemy: the goose. This seemingly harmless bird can end a player’s life in a single blow, leading to confusion and frustration in the gaming community. After failing a healing mission, the goose transforms into a demon known as Maniacal Goose, significantly increasing its danger. A deadly goose Players have found a striking tactic to deal with this formidable opponent: throwing it into the water, where the goose sinks and eventually dies. However, […]
In the recent MMO Where Winds Meet, players face an unexpected and powerful enemy: the goose. This seemingly harmless bird can end a player’s life in a single hit, which has led to confusion and frustration in the gaming community. After failing a healing mission, the goose transforms into a demon known as Maniacal Goose, significantly increasing its danger.
A Deadly Goose
Players have found a striking tactic to deal with this formidable opponent: throwing it into the water, where the goose sinks and eventually dies. However, this strategy is still not entirely known among all new users. On various platforms like Reddit and Steam, there are plenty of threads from confused players wondering how to handle the threat of the demonic goose, with titles like “Goose?” and “Watch out for the geese!”
Since its launch, Where Winds Meet has accumulated over 10 million pre-registrations and maintains around 160,000 daily concurrent players on Steam. This success and the goose phenomenon have generated considerable interest, while players share their experiences and seek effective strategies to survive encounters with the goose.
Players have also recalled the previous game, Untitled Goose Game, which had already warned about the dangers of geese, suggesting that they are much stronger than they appear. In the community, there is a sense of urgency regarding sharing knowledge, as many feel powerless against the goose challenge. “I don’t want letters, I want a video. It’s impossible to kill it,” says a player on Steam, reflecting the desperation of many when facing this threat.
With its iconic appearance, the goose is becoming a symbol of the game, highlighting the lesson that the most unusual threats often require the most creative strategies to be overcome.
China is gradually gaining the interest of the Western public. Although they have been producing excellent audiovisual productions for some time, especially in film and television, it has only been in the last few years that their cinema has begun to be considered commercially viable outside their borders. A similar situation has occurred with their video games, which have only recently started to take off among audiences outside of Asia. The latest case of a game that has taken off and is beginning to dominate the Western market is a game that could not be more […]
China is gradually gaining the interest of the Western public. Although they have been producing excellent audiovisual productions for some time, especially in film and television, it has only been in the last few years that their cinema has started to be considered commercially viable outside their borders. A similar trend has occurred with their video games, which have only recently begun to take off among audiences outside of Asia.
The latest case of a game that has taken the world by storm and is starting to dominate the Western market is a game that couldn’t be more Chinese in everything it does. And its name is Where Winds Meet.
A game with a Chinese flavor, but a Western style
This open-world action RPG offers us something very different from what we are used to in this type of games: to live our own wuxia story. What is wuxia? They are the chivalric tales of wandering heroes who roam throughout China, resolving troubles wherever they find them, using martial arts and spectacular moves that defy the logic and physics of reality. Something that the game has captured perfectly.
Positioning ourselves in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, which lasted from 907 to 960 and was a time of tremendous political and social instability for China, our duty will be to act as a gentleman throughout its vast world. Righting wrongs and ensuring we build a reputation as a martial artist across the country.
And it won’t be because we don’t have space to cover and things to do. With 20 squares of map and the ability to specialize in multiple martial arts, weapon uses, as well as numerous mystical arts, the game offers us many ways to create our own legend. And many people are already doing it.
Although the game was officially released on November 14 in Europe and the US, the game has been available on PC since December 27 in China. With three million downloads in the first four days of its release, Where Winds Meet became one of the most important games of this year from the very beginning.
Something that has only grown since its launch in the West. Appearing on PlayStation, Steam, and Epic, within 40 minutes of its release there were 500,000 players just counting Europe and the US, with more than two million during its first 24 hours. Reaching a peak of 190,000 simultaneous players on Steam, it has become the seventh best-selling game in Steam history, the fifth most played, and the second most viewed on its launch day.
The reasons are that the game, besides being visually stunning and offering us radical freedom and a style different from the typical action RPG, is that it is free-to-play. We don’t have to pay for anything to play, making its monetization extremely friendly for the standards of this type of game.
That’s why, if you love games like The Witcher 3 and are even a little intrigued by the wuxia aesthetic, you shouldn’t miss Where Winds Meet. Because few games are going to take the world by storm the way this one is, and besides, it won’t even cost you any money to see if the hype was justified or not.
In the last year, Chinese and South Korean RPGs have begun to thrive in international markets, capturing the attention of major publishers like Sony and Xbox. One of the titles that has stood out in this new wave is Where Winds Meet, a free open-world game that reached the impressive figure of 15 million players in China since its launch in December of last year. Its arrival in Europe, specifically in Spain, is scheduled for November 14. A game, apparently, infinite The phenomenon has been such that one player has dedicated more than 900 hours […]
In the last year, Chinese and South Korean RPGs have begun to thrive in international markets, capturing the attention of major publishers like Sony and Xbox. One of the titles that has stood out in this new wave is Where Winds Meet, a free open-world game that reached the impressive figure of 15 million players in China since its launch in December of last year. Its arrival in Europe, specifically in Spain, is scheduled for November 14.
An apparently infinite game
The phenomenon has been such that a player has dedicated over 900 hours to Where Winds Meet without having completed all its content, meticulously exploring the four regions of the game and participating in various PvE activities. This user, known as Rexlent, has shared his experience on social media, where he details that he has managed to complete the vast majority of the available activities, although he still has PvP content and other missions to discover. This high level of commitment highlights the depth and variety of content that the title offers, which combines a campaign mode, cooperative play, and an optional online mode.
Despite being a free game, Where Winds Meet stands out for its ambition and the variety of activities it offers. From main missions to board games and dungeons, players have many options to make the most of their playtime. This wide range of modes has become a significant attraction that explains the high time investment users are making.
With its imminent global launch, Where Winds Meet will be available for PC, PS5, and mobile devices. However, at the moment, there is no release date for Xbox Series consoles, as it will arrive as a timed exclusive within the PlayStation ecosystem. This development could open new opportunities in the video game market, further expanding the diversity in the offering of international RPGs.
