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Bloodborne
is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. ''Bloodborne'' follows the player's character, a Hunter, through the decrepit Gothic, Victorian-era–inspired city of Yharnam, whose inhabitants are afflicted with a blood-borne disease which transforms the residents, called Yharnamites, into horrific beasts. Attempting to find the source of the plague, the player's character unravels the city's mysteries while fighting beasts and cosmic beings. The game is played from a third-person perspective. Players control a customizable protagonist, and the gameplay is focused on strategic weapons-based combat and exploration. Players battle varied enemies while using items such as trick weapons and firearms, exploring different locations, interacting with non-player characters, and unravelling the city's mysteries. ''Bloodborne'' began development in 2012 under the working title of ''Project Beast''. Bearing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloodborne Alpha PlayStation 4 Gameplay Screenshot
is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. ''Bloodborne'' follows the Player character, player's character, a Hunter, through the decrepit Gothic architecture, Gothic, Victorian-era–inspired city of Yharnam, whose inhabitants are afflicted with a blood-borne disease which transforms the residents, called Yharnamites, into horrific beasts. Attempting to find the source of the plague, the player's character unravels the city's mysteries while fighting beasts and cosmic beings. The game is played from a Virtual camera system#Third-person view, third-person perspective. Players control a customizable protagonist, and the gameplay is focused on strategic weapons-based combat and exploration. Players battle varied enemies while using Item (gaming), items such as trick weapons and firearms, exploring different locations, interacting with non-player characters, and unravelling the city's mysteries. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidetaka Miyazaki
is a Japanese creative director, designer, scriptwriter, and executive for the video game company FromSoftware. He joined them in 2004 and was a designer for the ''Armored Core'' series before receiving wider recognition for directing the '' Dark Souls'' series. Miyazaki was promoted to company president in 2014 and also serves as its representative director. Other games he has directed include '' Demon's Souls'', ''Bloodborne'', '' Sekiro'', and ''Elden Ring'', which have all received critical acclaim. Miyazaki's influences range across the works of various novelists, manga artists, and game designers such as Fumito Ueda and Yuji Horii. His games often invoke the use of high difficulty and narratives presented largely through flavor text and environmental cues as opposed to dialogue. Regarded as an auteur of the video game medium, his work has often been cited as highly influential, leading to the creation of the Soulslike genre of games. Career Miyazaki was born circa 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood-borne Disease
A blood-borne disease is a disease that can be spread through contamination by blood and other body fluids. Blood can contain pathogens of various types, chief among which are microorganisms, like bacteria and parasites, and non-living infectious agents such as viruses. Three blood-borne pathogens in particular, all viruses, are cited as of primary concern to health workers by the CDC-NIOSH: HIV, hepatitis B (HVB), & hepatitis C (HVC). Diseases that are not usually transmitted directly by blood contact, but rather by insect or other vector, are more usefully classified as vector-borne disease, even though the causative agent can be found in blood. Vector-borne diseases include West Nile virus, zika fever and malaria. Many blood-borne diseases can also be contracted by other means, including high-risk sexual behavior or intravenous drug use. These diseases have also been identified in sports medicine. Since it is difficult to determine what pathogens any given sample of blood c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yharnam
Yharnam is a fictional city that is the primary setting of '' Bloodborne'', a 2015 video game developed by FromSoftware. Heavily featuring Gothic Revival architecture, the city was founded by and experienced rapid growth due to an organization known as the Healing Church. The Church, which discovered miraculous, occult blood in ancient catacombs beneath the city that could cure any illness, drew many people to Yharnam from across the land. It encouraged rampant xenophobia, with its residents resenting and mocking "outsiders". However, the use of the ancient blood had unintended consequences, as it began to indiscriminately transform those who possessed it into beasts, a plague that the Church attempted to suppress. Despite this, a phenomenon known as the Blood Moon brings about the city's downfall. When the player encounters Yharnam, most of its surviving inhabitants are either in hiding or already becoming beasts. Yharnam was praised by critics for its architectural and level des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Souls
is a series of action role-playing games created by Hidetaka Miyazaki of FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The series began with the release of ''Dark Souls'' (2011) and has seen two sequels, ''Dark Souls II'' (2014) and ''Dark Souls III'' (2016). ''Dark Souls'' has received critical acclaim, with the first title often cited as one of the greatest in video games, with the series as a whole being both praised and criticized for its high level of difficulty. By 2022, the series had shipped over 33 million copies. Other FromSoftware games, including ''Demon's Souls'', ''King's Field'', ''Bloodborne'', '' Sekiro'', and ''Elden Ring'', share several related concepts and are commonly grouped together as Soulslikes. Setting The games take place within a dark, medieval fantasy setting, where the player's character fights against knights, dragons, phantoms, demons, and other monstrous or supernatural entities. The accretion, loss, and recovery of souls ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovecraftian
Lovecraftian horror, sometimes used interchangeably with "cosmic horror", is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock. It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). His work emphasizes themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries, which are now associated with Lovecraftian horror as a subgenre. The cosmic themes of Lovecraftian horror can also be found in other media, notably horror films, horror games, and comics. Origin American author H. P. Lovecraft refined this style of storytelling into his own mythos that involved a set of supernatural, pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements. His work was influenced by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FromSoftware
FromSoftware, Inc. is a Japanese video game development and publishing company based in Tokyo. Founded by Naotoshi Zin in November 1986, the company developed business software before releasing their first video game, ''King's Field (video game), King's Field'', for the PlayStation (console), PlayStation in 1994. Its success shifted FromSoftware to focus fully on video games, with them producing two more ''King's Field'' games before creating the mecha combat series ''Armored Core'' (1997), one of their flagship franchises. By the 2000s, the company's lineup also included the ''Echo Night'', ''Shadow Tower'', ''Lost Kingdoms'', ''Otogi'', and ''Another Century's Episode'' series. FromSoftware would achieve breakout success in the 2010s, spurred by ''Demon's Souls'' (2009) and ''Dark Souls (video game), Dark Souls'' (2011), the latter being the first entry in a Dark Souls, trilogy whose success led to the creation of a subgenre of action role-playing games known as Soulslikes. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Wandmacher
Michael Wandmacher (born October 29, 1967) is an American composer of music for film, television, and video games. He has worked on numerous well-known projects, including ''Piranha 3D'', '' Punisher: War Zone'', ''Bloodborne'', ''Twisted Metal'', and '' The Goldbergs''. Most recently, he has worked on '' Underworld: Blood Wars'', succeeding previous series composers Paul Haslinger and Marco Beltrami. Life and career Wandmacher was born in Minneapolis. He began his career composing music for local news media and television commercials before scoring short and feature films by local filmmakers. While following a series of email exchanges that started via a film music newsgroup, Wandmacher met Alan Silvestri and was invited to Los Angeles to participate in several scoring sessions. They composed music for the English-language releases of several Jackie Chan films including ''Armour of God'' and ''Drunken Master II''. He eventually found success with the black comedy horror film ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cris Velasco
Cris Velasco is an American video game and film composer. His works include the musical scores for ''Overwatch'', ''Mass Effect'', ''Borderlands'', ''God of War'', '' StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm'' and ''Bloodborne''. Biography He has been featured in the ''God of War'' video game series, with four tracks on the ''God of War'', four on the ''God of War II'', and five on the ''God of War III'' soundtracks. He also composed music for the video game based on the original ''Battlestar Galactica'' series, '' Terminator 3: Redemption'', '' TMNT'', ''Anderson's Cross'', ''Company of Heroes 2'', ''Haze'', '' Splinter Cell: Double Agent'' (main theme only), ''Clive Barker's Jericho'' and is credited with doing additional music for ''Van Helsing''. He is also credited to doing the game score for '' Hellgate: London'' in 2007. Velasco collaborates with fellow composer Sascha Dikiciyan and in 2009, they both scored the soundtrack for the game ''Prototype'', along with other projects t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Studio
Japan Studio was a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo. A first-party studio for Sony Interactive Entertainment (formerly Sony Computer Entertainment), it was best known for the ''Ape Escape'', ''LocoRoco'', '' Patapon'', ''Gravity Rush'' and '' Knack'' series, the Team Ico games, ''Bloodborne'', ''The Legend of Dragoon'', and ''Astro's Playroom''. In April 2021, Japan Studio was reorganized and merged with Team Asobi and other SIE studios. History Japan Studio is based in Tokyo and was founded on 16 November 1993. It was formed shortly after the formation of the internal PlayStation division within Sony that included members from the Sony Corporation and the Sony Music Entertainment groups, with Japan Studio developing some of the initial games to be released on the first PlayStation console. According to Shuhei Yoshida, at the onset, the studio was run similar to Sony's music business, with lead external producers seeking out creative talent and help nurture the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greatest Video Games Ever Made
This is a list of video games that multiple reputable video game journalists or List of video game magazines, magazines have considered to be among the best of all time. The games listed here are included on at least six separate "best/greatest of all time" lists from different publications, as chosen by their editorial staffs. List Publications The reference numbers in the #Notes, notes section show which of the 46 selected publications list the game. # ''1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die'' – 2013 # ''The Age'' – 2005 # ''Collider (website), Collider'' – 2020 # ''Digitally Downloaded'' – 2016 # ''EP Daily, Electric Playground Network'' – 2013 # ''Edge (magazine), Edge'' – 2000, 2015, 2017 # ''Electronic Fun with Computers & Games'' - 1984 # ''Empire (film magazine), Empire'' – 2009 # ''Entertainment Weekly'' – 2003 # ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'' – 2018, 2020 # ''FHM'' – 2010 # ''Flux (magazine), Flux'' – 1995 # ''G4 (U.S. TV channel), G4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Computer Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), formerly known as Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), is a multinational video game and digital entertainment company wholly owned by multinational conglomerate Sony. The SIE Group is made up of two legal corporate entities: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE LLC) based in San Mateo, California, United States, and Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (SIE Inc.), based in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo-based SIE Inc. was originally founded as Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI or SCE) in November 1993 to handle Sony's venture into video game development for the PlayStation systems. SIE LLC was established in San Mateo in April 2016, and is managed through Sony's American branch, Sony Corporation of America. Since the launch of the original PlayStation console in 1994, the company has been developing PlayStation home video game consoles, accessories and services. The company expanded from Japan into North America and Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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