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Forspoken
''Forspoken'' is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by Luminous Productions and published by Square Enix. It is to be released on January 24, 2023, on PlayStation 5 and Windows. Gameplay According to director Takeshi Aramaki, the gameplay will be focused on terrain traversal speed and fluidity. Square Enix also described the game as a "narrative-driven adventure". The character will exist in an open world game format where players are able to travel anywhere at any time. The player character, Frey, has access to a variety of magical spells. Following each combat encounter, the player will earn experience points. Frey's cloak can be upgraded in order to improve her combat efficiency and stats, while applying nail polish unlocks special abilities. The player can also craft new items, or rest at a safe location in order to restore health. While the player is exploring the game world, they may encounter a "breakstorm", a scenario similar to a horde mode in which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forspoken Gameplay
''Forspoken'' is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by Luminous Productions and published by Square Enix. It is to be released on January 24, 2023, on PlayStation 5 and Windows. Gameplay According to director Takeshi Aramaki, the gameplay will be focused on terrain traversal speed and fluidity. Square Enix also described the game as a "narrative-driven adventure". The character will exist in an open world game format where players are able to travel anywhere at any time. The player character, Frey, has access to a variety of magical spells. Following each combat encounter, the player will earn experience points. Frey's cloak can be upgraded in order to improve her combat efficiency and stats, while applying nail polish unlocks special abilities. The player can also craft new items, or rest at a safe location in order to restore health. While the player is exploring the game world, they may encounter a "breakstorm", a scenario similar to a horde mode in which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luminous Productions
is a Japanese video game development studio and a subsidiary of Square Enix. It was originally known as Business Division 2, which was the development team responsible for ''Final Fantasy XV'' and was one of 12 Business Divisions (internal development and production divisions) that Square Enix had at the time before the company consolidated its development divisions in 2020. The current name and development structure of the studio was formed on 27 March 2018 as an external company. The aim of the company is to create new AAA video games for a global audience using Square Enix's proprietary Luminous Engine. History Formation Luminous Productions was originally assembled from employees working on ''Final Fantasy XV''. While forming a new internal studio from existing ones is common worldwide, it is uncommon in Japan. Since the studio pulled in so many who were working on ''Final Fantasy XV'', Luminous Productions helped with the game alongside their new project. So many were tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Hennig
Amy Hennig (born August 19, 1964) is an American video game director and script writer, formerly for the video game company Naughty Dog. She began her work in the industry on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with her design debut on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game '' Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City''. She later went to work for Crystal Dynamics, working primarily on the ''Legacy of Kain'' series (which she considers her greatest achievement). With Naughty Dog, she worked primarily on the ''Jak and Daxter'' and ''Uncharted'' series. Hennig believes that the creative direction of a script holds more importance than the graphics of the game. She has been called one of the most influential women in the video game industry by ''Edge'' magazine. Life Hennig graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English literature. She went on to the film school at San Francisco State University, when she was hired as an artist for an A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Balinska
Ella Balinska (born 4 October 1996) is an English actress. She is known for starring in the action-comedy film '' Charlie's Angels'' (2019) and the Netflix original series ''Resident Evil'' (2022). Early life and education Balinska was born on 4 October 1996 in London to entrepreneur Kaz Balinski-Jundzill and chef Lorraine Pascale. She has described her background as being a mix of "British, Polish and Caribbean". Her parents divorced in 2000. Her father is married to model Sophie Anderton. Balinska played county-level netball and competed in track and field at a national level, having been the javelin thrower for Team London. She went to James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich and left in 2015 to attend Arts Educational School (ArtsEd) in Chiswick for Sixth Form. She then went on to train at the Guildford School of Acting. She left during her final semester in 2018 for work and returned in 2020 to complete her degree, officially graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luminous Engine
, originally called , is a multi-platform game engine developed and used internally by Square Enix and later on by Luminous Productions. The engine was developed for and targeted at eighth-generation hardware and DirectX 11-compatible platforms, such as Xbox One, the PlayStation 4, and versions of Microsoft Windows. It was conceived during the development of ''Final Fantasy XIII-2'' to be compatible with next generation consoles that their existing platform, Crystal Tools, could not handle. The engine powered the tech demos ''Agni's Philosophy'' and ''Witch Chapter 0'' initially, and has since been used in two of company's titles—''Final Fantasy XV'', an entry in their ''Final Fantasy'' franchise, and an original IP titled ''Forspoken''. In early 2018, the development team of ''Final Fantasy XV'' was established by Square Enix as a new subsidiary studio dubbed Luminous Productions. The aim was to create new AAA video games for a global audience using the Luminous Engine. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Cake
Jonathan James Cake (born 31 August 1967) is an English actor who has worked on various TV programmes and films. His notable screen roles include Jack Favell in ''Rebecca'' (1997), Oswald Mosley in '' Mosley'' (1997), Japheth in the NBC television film ''Noah's Ark'' (1999), Tyrannus in the ABC miniseries ''Empire'' (2005) and Det. Chuck Vance on the ABC drama series ''Desperate Housewives'' (2011–2012). Early life Cake was born in Worthing, Sussex. His father was a glassware importer and his mother a school administrator. He is the youngest of three sons. When he was four years old, he was invited on stage during a traditional British pantomime for children. This exposure ignited his interest in the performing arts. By the age of eight, Jonathan had taken drama classes and took part in plays. As a teenager, he toured Britain with London's National Youth Theatre. After leaving school, Cake studied English at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a rugby player in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keala Settle
Keala Joan Settle (born November 5, 1975) is an American actress and singer. Settle originated the role of Norma Valverde in '' Hands on a Hardbody'', which ran on Broadway in 2013, and was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. In 2016 she was in the original Broadway cast of ''Waitress'' portraying Becky. In 2017, she portrayed Lettie Lutz, a bearded lady, in the musical film ''The Greatest Showman''. The song " This Is Me" from the film, principally sung by Settle, won the 2017 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. On January 27, 2019, Settle sang "Seasons of Love" in Fox's '' Rent: Live''. Personal life Settle was born in Hawaii, the oldest of five children of Susanne (née Riwai), who is of Māori (Rangitāne, Ngāti Kahungunu) descent from New Zealand, and British-born David Settle. She is a graduate of Kahuku High School (clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Barbaro
Monica Barbaro (born June 18, 1990) is an American actress. She is known for her film roles in '' The Cathedral'' (2021), '' Top Gun: Maverick'' (2022), and '' At Midnight'' (2023). She has also appeared in leading roles in the television series ''UnREAL'' (2016), ''Chicago Justice'' (2017), '' The Good Cop'' (2018), and ''FUBAR'' (2023). Early life Barbaro was born on June 18, 1990, in San Francisco. She grew up in Mill Valley, California, where she graduated from Tamalpais High School in 2007. Her parents divorced when she was a child. Barbaro started dancing at an early age and went on to study ballet. While taking electives in acting, she completed a degree in dance at New York University New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Tisch School of the Arts in New York City. After graduating in 2010, she decided to pursue acting and returned to San Francisco. There, she booked a commercial, a short film, connected with an agent, and attended the Beverly Hills Playhouse act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janina Gavankar
Janina Zione Gavankar (; born November 29, 1980) is an American actress and musician. She is trained as a pianist, vocalist, orchestral percussionist and majored in theatre at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her roles include Shiva on ''The League'', Leigh Turner on ''The Gates'', Luna Garza on HBO's ''True Blood'', McKenna Hall on The CW's '' Arrow'' and Diana Thomas on FOX's '' Sleepy Hollow''. In marketing, she also played "Ms. Dewey", a personified search engine and virtual assistant for Microsoft. Early life Gavankar was born in Joliet, Illinois to Ganesh "Peter" Gavankar, an engineer from Mumbai, who first travelled to the US to pursue a master's degree, and Shan Demohra "Mohra" Gavankar, of half-Indian and half-Dutch descent, from Pune, who also emigrated there from India. Career Gavankar has acted in theatre, film, television, and online. Her most notable roles include Iden Versio, a canon Star Wars character and the protagonist of '' Star Wars: Battlefront II'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Schyman
Garry Schyman is an American film, television, and video game music composer. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in music composition in 1978, and began work in the television industry, writing music for such television series as ''Magnum, P.I.'' and ''The A-Team''. By 1986, he was composing for movies such as ''Judgement'' and '' Hit List''. At the request of a friend in 1993, he composed the music for the video game ''Voyeur'', but after creating the music for two more games he left the industry, citing the low budgets and poor quality of video game music at the time. He continued to compose for film and television, only to return to video games for 2005's ''Destroy All Humans!''. Finding that in his absence the quality and perceived importance of video game music had risen substantially, he has since composed for several games, writing the scores to ''BioShock'' and ''Dante's Inferno'' among others. He still composes for film however, his lates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bear McCreary
Bear McCreary (born February 17, 1979) is an American musician and composer of film, television, and video game scores based in Los Angeles, California. His work includes the scores of the television series ''Battlestar Galactica'' (2004), ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', '' Outlander'', '' The Walking Dead'' and '' The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'', The Serpent Queen, the video games '' Call of Duty: Vanguard'', ''God of War'' and ''Ragnarök'', and the film '' Godzilla: King of the Monsters''. McCreary has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for his work on season one of ''Outlander'' and won one Emmy for the main title of ''Da Vinci's Demons''. He has also won a BAFTA for his work on ''God of War''. Early life and education McCreary spent most of his formative years in Bellingham, Washington. He is the son of author Laura Kalpakian and professor Jay McCreary of University of Hawaii at Manoa. His brother, Brendan McCreary, is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Whitta
Gary Leslie Whitta (born 21 July 1972) is an English screenwriter, author, game designer, and video game journalist. He was editor-in-chief of both the UK and US editions of ''PC Gamer'' magazine and contributor to gaming magazine ''ACE''. Whitta was the screenwriter of ''The Book of Eli'' (2010), co-wrote ''After Earth'' (2013) with M. Night Shyamalan, and co-developed the story for ''Rogue One'' (2016). Career Whitta began his career as a writer and games journalist for ''ACE'' magazine. When ''ACE'' closed down in 1992, he became deputy editor of '' The One for Amiga Games'' and was involved with founding the original ''PC Gamer'' magazine in the UK. He subsequently served as the editor of Total Football. A few years later, he moved to the United States to become editor-in-chief of the newer, US version, of ''PC Gamer''. Magazine publishing Besides his involvement setting up ''PC Gamer'', Whitta has a long history of involvement with print and online magazines of all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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