Shift Up updated its official site and, in so doing, shared additional information about its new game. While previously known as Project Witches, including in its 2025 IR presentation, it is now called Project Spirits. Artwork shared alongside the latest reveal also highlighted two of the possible characters we’ll see in the title.

On the Shift Up games section of the site, the Project Spirits description again confirms this is a new IP. It also describes the theme as “Eastern Fantasy.” Like Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, which is available on PCs and mobile devices, it will appear on multiple platforms. However, its genre is still unknown. 

Here’s the full official art for the new game. It depicts two characters standing back-to-back. The one with long, black hair  has two swords on scabbards on a belt around her waist. The other has long, pink hair in pigtails and glasses, and she’s got a kunai around the pointer finger of her right hand. 

The Korean version of the Shift Up site also features a new jobs section for Project Spirits. Eight positions are open for developers. 

Project Spirits is in development. There is no release date and are no platforms for it yet.

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A Goddess of Victory: NIKKE Padres Night is coming up on June 10, 2025, and now Shift Up shared the baseball costumes appearing alongside the new version update that includes K and the Lord, for Justice story event. Both Blanc and Noir get new outfits. Everything kicks off on May 29, 2025. There’s also a new NIKKE Baseball Season PV featuring the characters playing the game.

The two new NIKKE costumes are No 77 Batter for Blanc and Baseball Cheerleader for Noir. The Noir outfit is being given away to everyone for free. To get it, you need to to the game for seven days in a row after the update on May 29, 2025. That opportunity ends on June 20, 2025. You need to buy the Baseball and finish its missions to get No 77 Batter outfit.

Only one of the costumes has been shown off ahead of the in-game debut. Shift Up released a YouTube Short of Blanc in her uniform. 

Here’s the full Goddess of Victory: NIKKE Baseball Season PV trailer showing Blanc and Noir in their new uniform costumes ahead of the Padres game. 

As for the other additions, trailers and details for K appeared ahead of Lord, for Justice, beginning in NIKKE. She’s an Elysion unit who is part of Perilous Siege and functions as an Attacker. She uses the Double Hazard SMG and deals Electric damage, and her Means of Righteousness Burst Skill is a III type. Both of her ives increase damage, with Scale of Righteousness increasing critical rate and Execution of Righteousness reducing allies’ maximum ammunition capacity in exchange for increasing damage. She’ll appear in Ordinary Recruit and Social Point Recruit after her debut banner ends on June 11, 2025.

Here’s the trailer showing K in motion:

And another video showed off her voice acting.

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE is available for the PC and mobile devices, the baseball and event appear alongside the May 29, 2025 update, and the Padres Night tied to the game is at 6:40pm PT on June 10, 2025. 

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Shift Up showed exactly how some of the Stellar Blade Goddess of Victory: NIKKE costumes and the minigame based on the mobile game will look in a trailer for the crossover DLC. This also featured a peek at the Scarlet boss fight as well. There's also a Doro Dorothy cameo at the very end.

This video began with a look at the Stellar Blade minigame gameplay, as that involves shooting down foes in the same way someone would when playing NIKKE. As it starts, Shift Up quickly cycles through a few of the character costumes for Eve in the add-on. First, she’s dressed as Rapi. Then, she looks like Modernia. A quick peek at Anis’ attire comes after. Her Alice outfit appeared after that. She’s briefly dressed like Dorothy after that, before returning to her normal appearance.

From there, we see the cover-based shooting familiar from NIKKE. What honestly look like Rapture robots, in addition to Stellar Blade foes, descend on her location. We hide behind cover and emerge to shoot at them, and the UI suggests the Burst system from NIKKE may be present. 

After that we see some familiar faces. Volt the dog shows up and interacts with Eve. We then get a better look at her in the different NIKKE costumes in Stellar Blade. Eve meets Scarlet after that, and that leads into a peek at the boss fight between the two characters. Things close out with Eve encountering Doro Dorothy at about the 1:27 point.

Here’s the full trailer:

Stellar Blade is available for the PS5 and comes to the PC via Steam on June 11, 2025, and the Goddess of Victory: NIKKE DLC debuts the same day and is a part of the complete edition of the game. NIKKE is available on PCs and mobile devices now.

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Shift Up shared the May 16, 2025 IR Presentation pdf on its official site in English, and it mentioned a Stellar Blade sequel is on the way. In the Strategy section of the presentation deck, it appears in the IP expansion area. [Thanks, Shinobi602!]

The IP expansion section features all three of Shift Up’s current and games. In the Stellar Blade section, there are two sections noted. One mentions “platform expansion.” This refers to the PC port, which debuts on June 11, 2025. There is also a sequel mentioned in the same section. No date is shown, but the timeline at the bottom started in 2024 with Stellar Blade PS5 and Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, then ended in 2027 with the Project Witches title mentioned at the end of the timeline. 

Here’s the image from the May 16, 2025 Shift Up IR Presentation:

In the deck, the company also pointed out a timeline of Stellar Blade updates. This didn’t hint at any future additions for the title, however. The last items mentioned there are the PC port and NIKKE DLC debut both happening in June 2025.

While Shift Up hasn’t discussed a Stellar Blade sequel yet, we have seen more details about the PC port and NIKKE DLC. A trailer highlighted PC version features. As for the add-on, the company confirmed Scarlet will be in it as a boss and Volt, Liter’s dog, will be a shopkeeper.

Stellar Blade is available on the PS5, the PC version debuts on June 11, 2025, and a sequel is apparently in development. 

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Sony updated the page for the Stellar Blade DLC on the PlayStation website, and it goes over some of the Goddess of Victory: NIKKE character costumes and a Scarlet fight. It also noted there will be a specific shop, fishing for NIKKE items, and a shooting range minigame.

In the case of Scarlet, the NIKKE character will be a boss. It noted on the site that you get a costume, hairstyle, and song for beating her. While it didn’t specify what these might be, in a past trailer we did see a tease that suggested Eve can dress as Scarlet, so perhaps someone would need to defeat the boss to earn that attire.

As for the shop, it will sell costumes and cosmetics in-game. A NIKKE character will run it. Those familiar with Liter will recognize her dog Volt, which will appear as the vendor there.

The March 2025 Stellar Blade Goddess of Victory: NIKKE DLC didn’t show the Scarlet boss fight, but it did tease outfits based on characters from Shift Up’s other game for Eve. For example, at the start of the video there’s a Rapi outfit. (Not her Red Hood variant.) Alice, Anis, Dorothy, and Modernia outfits seem to be in the crossover add-on too.

Here’s that trailer, as a reminder:

Stellar Blade is available for the PS5 and comes to the PC via Steam on June 11, 2025, and the Goddess of Victory: NIKKE DLC debuts in June 2025 too and is a part of the complete edition of the game alongside the NieR: Automata add-on. NIKKE is available on PCs and mobile devices now.

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Shift Up announced on the PlayStation Blog that the release date for the PC version of Stellar Blade and confirmed a PS5 free update that adds new PC additions will launch alongside it. Both will debut on June 11, 2025, and the exact launch time in the US is 3pm PT/6pm ET. The Steam page also updated to reflect this, as well as note Denuvo will be present and the DualSense controller can be used.

As for the new additions that will be present in both games, there will be a new Boss Challenge and more outfits for Eve. The fight is against Mann. One of the new Nano Suits is tied to beating him, which is the Royal Guard Suit. There will be 25 new costumes total. 

A few teaser screenshots showed off the new looks for Eve and the Mann fight.

Here’s the trailer going over the PC version of the game, as well as showing the exclusive features to it and the new content that will be in the PS5 and PC port.

Shift Up also shared the exact specs needed to run Stellar Blade on PC on minimum through very high settings. Here’s a replica of the table from the PlayStation Blog.

You do need to go into settings to see high-resolution, 4K texture backgrounds. 5:4 through 32:9 resolutions will also be available. You can unlock the frame rate as well. 

Stellar Blade is available for the PS5, and the PC release date and next PS5 free update arrives on June 11, 2025. 

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The next new Goddess of Victory: NIKKE character is the SSR unit Arcana, and she’s a fortune teller associated with tarot cards and Ouija boards. She’s debuting on May 15, 2025, alongside the Arcane Archive event introducing her and update. The patch will also add the CLAY, MORE event to the Archives and a Revealed Secrets event with rewards when it launches, a Full Burst Day between May 24-26, 2025, and Champion Arena Season 4 starts on May 22, 2025. 

Arcana is a er class unit who is made by Elysion. While she doesn’t actually fight with tarot cards, her rocket launcher is called Fortune Teller. She deals Electric-type damage. We don’t know what her skills and burst look like yet, but Shift Up might share an infographic with those details ahead of her debut later this week. We do know that, while the odds of getting her will be better on her banner where she's the focus unit, she will the general pool after that.

Here’s the video highlighting Arcana, and it also lets us hear her English voice acting in NIKKE.

There’s no trailer showing her in battle yet.

Shift-Up also shared two images highlighting her from different angles. One shows her in the Arcane Archive event art. The other looks at her in the midst of a fight.

The latest Goddess of Victory: NIKKE update also included a video with Scenario Team Leader Jung Jae-sung discussing the characters and story. You can catch that below:

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE is available for the PC and mobile devices, and the new character Arcana will debut on May 15, 2025. Once her introductory banner ends on May 29, 2025, she’ll the general pool of characters available in Ordinary Recruit and Social Point Recruit.

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During the 2.5 Goddess of Victory: NIKKE anniversary stream, Shift Up confirmed that in June 2025 there will be a Padres Night and a crossover collaboration event with Stellar Blade. In the case of the baseball game, there will be in-game activities starting on May 29, 2025, followed by the June 10, 2025 Padres vs Dodgers game. There’s no date for the Stellar Blade event yet.

Only a few details about the NIKKE Padres Night and in-game baseball event came up. On May 29, 2025, there will apparently be uniforms for some characters to wear as new costumes. “Special content” was also mentioned, which could mean a campaign or actually story event. The actual game is at Petco Park at 6:40pm PT on June 10, 2025. Tickets are still available. Those start at $64.40 for standing room only and $74.75 for a standard ticket. Both themed activities and merchandise from the game will be sold. 

As for the Stellar Blade event coming to NIKKE, it only got a June 2025 launch window and new piece of teaser art. The image showed a silhouette of Eve standing alongside the standard version of Rapi. That is the same month the NIKKE DLC add-on will be released for the console and PC game.

You can see the full 2.5 anniversary stream below. 

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE is available on PCs and mobile devices, the Dodgers game collab will happen on June 10, 2025, and the Stellar Blade crossover comes up sometime in June 2025. 

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At the beginning of April 2025, Shift Up announced the Goddess of Victory: NIKKE Global Popularity Poll 3 to vote for us to vote for our favorite character, and Rapi: Red Hood won it. The results came up during the 2.5 anniversary stream at about the 33 minute mark of the video. While the official site doesn’t show results yet, there is an image going over the top 20 from run.

Rapi: Red Hood is a relatively new character in Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, as the alt for the heroine that’s been available as a unit since the game launched debuted in “Cheers to the Past, Here’s to the New.” That launched at the end of December 2024.

Here’s the full list of the top 20 characters in the Goddess of Victory: NIKKE Global Popularity Poll 3. 

1. Rapi: Red Hood
2. Cinderella
3. Crown
4. Dorothy
5. Scarlet
6. Helm
7. Scarlet: Black Shadow
8. Alice
9. Anis
10. Blanc
11. D: Killer Wife
12. Bready
13. Privaty: Unkind Maid
14. Noir
15. Grave
16. Elegg
17. Viper
18. Ade
19. Naga
20. Mast: Romantic Maid

Here's the image showing everyone, which also included the number of votes they all got. The NIKKE alt
Rapi: Red Hood got 1,398,772 votes.

A few other character results also came up during this portion of the stream. Here’s the full list of other awards Shift Up revealed.

• “Favorite Costume” was the Longing Flower outfit for Scarlet: Black Shadow. 
• “Favorite NPC” title went to Cecil. 
• “Most Impressive Rapture” went to Ultra.
• “Most Memorable Grand Story Events” went to “Old Tales” with Cinderella. 
• “Most Memorable Normal Story Events” went to the 2024 “New Year, New Sword” one starring Scarlet and Rose.  
• “Most Popular Attacker” went to Rapi: Red Hood.
• “Most Popular Defender” went to Cinderella. 
• “Most Popular Manufacturer” went to Pilgrim.
• “Most Popular R NIKKE” went to Soldier EG. 
• “Most Popular SR NIKKE” went to Anis.
• “Most Popular Squad on Average” included Cinderella and Grave. 
• “Most Popular er” went to Dorothy.

You can see the full 2.5 anniversary stream below. Anis really gets things started at the 34:45 mark.

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE is available on PCs and mobile devices. 

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Ahead of the launch of Stellar Blade Eve and Tachy figures, JND Studios shared four photos of the prototypes of the heroines on social media. Pre-orders will go live in Korea on April 18, 2025. No release window was mentioned yet, so it is unclear when we’ll see the characters from the game launch in Korea and worldwide. At time of writing, the official site only included teaser images of the two.

When sharing the images, JND Studios seemed to suggest there will be two buying options for the Stellar Blade Eve and Tachy figures. One will be a “single version” that might only include Eve. The other option mentioned is a Dual Version that includes Eve, Tachy, and a bonus Drone accessory. 

Both Eve and Tachy are wearing their default outfits for these items. So Eve is in the Planet Diving Suit (7th). Meanwhile, Tachy is wearing her 7th Airborne Squad attire. Both have their weapons on hand, but the poses don’t make it look like they’re in the midst of a fight. So Tachy is holding the Tachyon Blade and looks like she’s about to pull it from its holster, while Eve has her Blood Edge sword unleashed and in her right hand. 

Here are seven photos shared so far. Only two actually show the characters. The other two focus on showing the smaller Drone from different angles.

Stellar Blade is available for the PS5, and a PC version will arrive in June 2025. A crossover with Shift Up’s Goddess of Victory: NIKKE is also planned.

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Shift Up will kick off the next Goddess of Victory: NIKKE character Global Popularity Poll 3 on April 8, 2025, which will help reveal the most popular units in-game. This will be a brief event that will culminate in the reveal of winners during the 2.5th Anniversary Livestream on April 19, 2025. After that poll goes live, we’ll also see an update that adds a new character named Crust and event tied to her on April 10, 2025. 

As in the past, this won’t just be a poll to determine which NIKKE characters are most popular, but the Global Popularity Poll 3 will be used to determine extra features and prizes. Only the characters in the top five will be honored. 

Here’s the schedule for the new character ranking event. Special messages from certain units will appear each day on April 9-12, 2025:

• April 8, 2025: We can head to the official site to vote.
• April 9, 2025: We can take part in Special Voting 1.
• April 10, 2025: We can take part in Special Voting 2.
• April 11, 2025: We can take part in Special Voting 3.
• April 12, 2025: We can take part in Special Voting 4.
• April 13, 2025: We can take part in Special Voting 5.
• April 14, 2025: Shift Up closes the polls.
• April 19, 2025: We can watch the 2.5th Anniversary Livestream and find out who won.

Since this is the third NIKKE Global Popularity Poll, we have an idea of which characters might be most popular in the game right now. In the first poll in 2023, Modernia took first place, and she was followed by Scarlet, Alice, Rapunzel, and Anis. In 2024, Red Hood ended up in first place, and she was followed by Dorothy, Scarlet, Blanc, and Scarlet: Black Shadow. So both years, we saw Scarlet show up in some form. This means we might see her in the top five again.

There’s another big update coming for Goddess of Victory: NIKKE this week, as after maintenance a new character will appear and some additional events. Crust is an SSR unit tied to the new True Flavor event, and she’s also connected to the last new addition Bready. She’s a er who uses a Whip, Pop, Ding rocket launcher, deals Water damage, and is part of the Tetra Line company. While she’s the focus unit on her Special Recruit between April 10-23, 2025, you don’t need to worry about missing out on her. She’ll be added to Ordinary Recruit, Mold Items, and Social Point Recruit after April 23, 2025. 

Here’s the teaser trailer showing off Crust, if you haven’t seen how she looks yet. She wears a chef hat and has a rabbit mascot.

As for the True Flavor event featuring Bready and Crust, that will run between April 10-23, 2025 too. You can go through special stages to earn 

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE is available on PCs and mobile devices, the Global Popularity Poll 3 begins on April 8, 2025, and the True Flavor event and Crust character banner start on April 10, 2025.

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Shift Up announced the new Goddess of Victory: NIKKE character Trina and confirmed that there will be a spring event called For Rest that features her. Unlike some additions, she’s permanent part of the cast going forward. While she won’t be in New Commander Special Recruit or the tutorial Ordinary Recruit, she will be available via the Ordinary Recruit and Social Point Recruit banners and Mold items. She launches on March 13, 2025, following the update, and the event starts the same day, and her focus banner will remain until March 27, 2025.

Trina will be a er in NIKKE, and the new character is designed to both heal and buff allies. Her Nature’s Grace ive restores HP. Her Peaceful Time ive affects fellow Electric code units on her team and provides buffs like temporary invulnerability, increased attack damage, and increased loading speed. Her Mother Forest Burst II skill buffs affects all enemies skills Burst Skill damage, increases damage, and offers additional buffs for Electric types. She also wields the Rocket Launcher called Mother Nature, and she’s a part of the Missilis Manufacturer group.

Here’s a video of the new NIKKE character Trina. Shift Up shared a trailer that shows her character model when she’s standing up, firing her weapon, and using her Burst in battle.

There’s also an infographic highlighting each of her attacks:

As for the For Rest NIKKE event, it is the spring event this year. People can go through it and its challenge stages for rewards. Trina will be the featured character for that storyline. Like the banner tied to her, it only appears until March 27, 2025. 

The last new NIKKE units to appear ended up being crossover ones. When the Evangelion event came back, Asuka: WILLE version and Rei Ayanami (Tentative Name) debuted as new SSR fighters on the banner. We could also earn a free SR Sakura Suzuhara by playing.

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE is available on PCs and mobile devices, and the new For Rest event and playable character Trina will debut on March 13, 2025. 

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Back in December 2024, Shift Up announced a second Evangelion event would appear in Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, and now we know it will return on February 20, 2025. As usual, this crossover is based on the Rebuild of Evangelion series of movies. 

There’s a new trailer to go along with this second NIKKE Evangelion crossover event, of course. This time, it starts with characters like Rapi, Anis, and Neon on a ship as a number of Angels appear. We then see the Evas return ist the sea turning red. A silhouette of the Asuka: WILLE version of Asuka Shikinami Langley shows up, as she’ll be one of the new SSR units. As other NIKKEs head into the fray, the Rei Ayanami (Tentative Name) SSR shows up alongside the SR Sakura Suzuhara. 

There are more details about when exactly certain characters will appear too. The Asuka: WILLE banner runs February 20, 2025 through March 13, 2025. Since she’s limited, that is the only way to get her. We need to wait a bit for Rei Ayanami (Tentative Name) to show up, as her banner starts on February 27, 2025. Once it does appear, it will also only be available until March 13, 2025. As for Sakura, she’ll be a unit we can earn by playing through the crossover event.

Here are the teaser images for all three of them: 

This is the second run of the NIKKE Evangelion crossover event. The first one in 2024 featured banners for SSR Asuka, Mari Illustrious Makinami, and Rei Ayanami, with people able to earn an SR Misato Katsuragi. Like these new banners, the characters were only available via the limited Pick Up Recruitment gacha. So you can only get them in-game when an event like this is live.

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE is available on PCs and mobile devices. The Rebuild of Evangelion movies are on Amazon. 

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In a rather obvious move, during the February 2025 State of Play Shift Up announced there will be Goddess of Victory: NIKKE DLC for Stellar Blade. It will cost actual money and won’t be free. The Stellar Blade PC version was also confirmed. Both the add-on and new port will debut in June 2025.

The teaser trailer for the crossover offered some hints as to what we can expect. The video begins with a Rapi appearance and outfit. Aside from her, we also see outfits inspired by other characters. So it seems like Eve can dress up as Alice and Scarlet, for example.

Here’s the Stellar Blade trailer that went over the Goddess of Victory: NIKKE DLC that’s on the way. The description for it confirmed that you will need to play through the game for a bit before you can unlock the new items for Eve.

This isn’t the only crossover involving the two games. Goddess of NIKKE is getting one too. Shift Up confirmed that in December 2024. Initial imagery suggested that Eve will be added as a playable character to the PC and mobile game.

Stellar Blade is on the PS5 now, and the PC version and Goddess of Victory: NIKKE DLC will arrive in June 2025. NIKKE is playable on the PC and mobile devices.

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Shift Up teased the next two Goddess of Victory: NIKKE characters who will appear after the January 23, 2025 update, and they are swimsuit maid alts of existing units Anchor and Mast. Both of them will be SSR units. While they will be the focus of their new banners, they won’t be limited, as we’ll see them in the Ordinary and Social Point Recruits later.

Mast: Romantic Maid is the first of the two NIKKE character alts to appear. Her banner launches on January 30, 2025. She’s going to be a er who wields a machine gun called Romantic Heart. She’ll work well with other Elysion units and deal water-type damage to enemies. When on a team, she’ll increase all of the other ’ attack power with her abilities. That banner dedicated to her ends on February 19, 2025.

As for Anchor: Innocent Maid, her banner runs February 6-27, 2025. She’s also a er who deals water-based damage. However, she has a rocket launcher called Innocent Question. While she also helps buff ally attacks with her abilities, she’ll also help them stay alive. Like Mast, she’s also an Elysion unit.

Here are the first images of the Anchor: Innocent Maid and Mast: Romantic Maid swimsuit alts ahead of the characters’ NIKKE debut:

Prior to these alts, another completely new character appeared. That was Missilis Military Research (MMR) General Manager Mana.

Goddess of Victory: NIKKE are available for the PC and mobile devices.

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