Hello everyone,
As many of you just saw in today’s State of Play, pre-orders for Phantom Blade Zero will open this summer!
At the same time, I want to share another update: Phantom Blade Zero will now launch on October 29, 2026, moved from its previous date of September 9, 2026.
First of all, I want to offer my sincere apologies to all the players who have been following and supporting us. This was not an easy decision. More than anyone, we understand the expectations our players have placed on us. And precisely because of those expectations, we do not want to release Phantom Blade Zero knowing there is still an opportunity to take it one step further.
Looking back over the past few years, the development of Phantom Blade Zero has been a thrilling journey of evolution. As we built the game, we continued learning, refining our technology, and expanding the scale and resources behind the project. From its first reveal in 2023, to its first offline hands-on demo in 2024, to the Seven-Star Sword Formation, Lion Dance, and Drunken Sword showcased in 2025, Phantom Blade Zero has continued to evolve year after year, with each new showing representing a clear leap forward from the last. And we have shared that evolution with players around the world every step of the way.
Over the past few months, we have been streamlining content and focusing our efforts on polishing the areas that matter most. During this process, I saw one final opportunity for Phantom Blade Zero to make another meaningful leap forward.
We have upgraded a number of character models and reworked many environments across the game, pushing them toward the highest standard we can currently achieve. We have also spent additional effort preserving as much of this visual impact as possible even without relying on ray tracing. Of course, ray tracing will further enhance the visuals, but our priority is to make sure the core look, atmosphere, and intensity of Phantom Blade Zero come through at full force for as many players as possible.
A 50-day delay cannot solve everything. But it does give us enough time to complete a number of clearly defined and genuinely important improvements. These refinements will directly affect how the game feels when players first step into the world of Phantom Blade Zero. We could have delivered some of them through post-launch updates, but for the players who choose to join us on day one, we believe they deserve the best version of Phantom Blade Zero we can deliver from the very beginning.
I am truly sorry for the delay, and I want to thank everyone who has continued to follow and support Phantom Blade Zero. This summer, we will have much more to show you. I believe every extra day of waiting will be worth it.
I'd also like to share what you can expect next:
1. A new trailer that will release alongside pre-orders, featuring entirely new in-game footage.
2. After pre-order opens, we will also have a dedicated State of Play focused entirely on Phantom Blade Zero: a 15-to-20-minute deep dive into the game’s world, combat, exploration, and character progression systems. The vast majority of what we show there will be brand-new.
We will share the exact dates in upcoming announcements!
Once again, thank you all for your continued support!
Soulframe
S-GAME CEO / Creator of Phantom Blade Zero
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Larry Page wanted to build a digital god.
"He really seemed to want some sort of digital superintelligence. Basically a digital god, if you will. As soon as possible."
Elon Musk asked: "What about making sure humanity's okay here?"
Page called him a speciesist.
"I said yes, I'm a speciesist. You got me. What are you? I'm fully a speciesist. Busted."
Musk spent 10 minutes with Tucker Carlson explaining why he created OpenAI:
Tucker asked the basic question.
"All of a sudden AI is everywhere. People are playing with it on their phones. Is that good or bad?"
Musk starts with first principles.
"The smartest creatures as far as we know on this Earth are humans. That's our defining characteristic."
"We're obviously weaker than chimpanzees. Less agile. But we are smarter."
"Now. What happens when something vastly smarter than the smartest person comes along in silicon form?"
"It's very difficult to predict what will happen in that circumstance."
He explains the singularity.
"It's called the singularity. Like a black hole. Because you don't know what happens after that."
"It's hard to predict."
He argues for regulation.
"I think there should be some government oversight. Because it affects the public. It's a danger to the public."
"That's why we have the Food and Drug Administration. The Federal Aviation Administration. The FCC."
"We have these agencies to oversee things that affect the public. Where there could be public harm."
"You don't want companies cutting corners on safety. And then having people suffer as a result."
He addresses the perception that he fights regulators.
"People think I'm some sort of regulatory maverick that defies regulators on a regular basis. But this is actually not the case."
"Once in a blue moon, rarely, I will disagree with regulators. But the vast majority of the time my companies agree with the regulations and comply."
Tucker asks the obvious question.
"All regulations start with a perceived danger. Planes fall out of the sky. I don't think an average person playing with AI on his iPhone perceives any danger."
"Can you explain what you think the dangers might be?"
Musk's answer.
"AI is perhaps more dangerous than mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production."
"In the sense that it has the potential. It is a small probability, but it is not trivial."
"It has the potential of civilization destruction."
He explains the timing problem.
"Regulations are really only put into effect after something terrible has happened."
"If that's the case for AI, and we only put in regulations after something terrible has happened, it may be too late to put the regulations in place."
"They may be out of control at that point."
Tucker asks directly.
"It's conceivable that AI could take control and reach a point where you couldn't turn it off and it would be making the decisions for people?"
Musk's answer.
"Yeah. Absolutely."
"That's definitely the way things are headed."
He explains why OpenAI exists.
"Larry Page and I used to be close friends. I would stay at his house in Palo Alto. I would talk to him late in the night about AI safety."
"At least my perception was that Larry was not taking AI safety seriously enough."
Tucker asked what Page said.
"He really seemed to want some sort of digital superintelligence. Basically a digital god, if you will. As soon as possible."
Musk pushed back.
"I agree there's great potential for good. But there's also potential for bad."
"If you have some radical new technology, you want to take actions to maximize the probability it will do good. Minimize the probability it will do bad things."
"It can't just be barreling forward and hope for the best."
Then the speciesist moment.
"At one point I said: what about making sure humanity's okay here?"
"And then he called me a speciesist."
Tucker: "Did he use that term?"
"Yes."
"I said yes, I'm a speciesist. You got me. What are you? I'm fully a speciesist. Busted."
That was the last straw.
"At the time, Google had DeepMind. Google and DeepMind had three-quarters of all the AI talent in the world."
"They obviously had a lot of money and more computers than anyone else."
"We're in a unipolar world here. One company that has close to a monopoly on AI talent and computers. And the person who's in charge doesn't seem to care about safety."
"This is not good."
So he created the opposite.
"I thought: what's the furthest thing from Google?"
"A nonprofit that is fully open. Because Google was closed and for-profit."
"Open AI. Open source. Transparent. So people know what's going on."
"We don't want this to be a for-profit maximizing demon from hell that just never stops."
Tucker asks about the specific danger.
"The cool parts of AI are obvious. Write your college paper for you. Write a limerick about yourself. There's a lot that's fun and useful."
"But can you be more precise about what's potentially dangerous? What specifically are you worried about?"
Musk's answer.
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
"If you have a superintelligent AI that is capable of writing incredibly well. In a way that is very influential, convincing."
"And is constantly figuring out what is more convincing to people over time."
"And then enters social media. Twitter. Facebook. Others."
"And potentially manipulates public opinion in a way that is very bad."
"How would we even know?"
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