Bloodborne Producer Joins Team Ninja, Isn t Making Nioh Video Game

Team Ninja has announced that Bloodborne producer Masaaki Yamagiwa has signed up with the workshop following his departure from Sony s inoperative Japan Workshop. Yet don t expect him to be leading a Nioh project, as the studio isn t dealing with the collection right currently.

An enjoyable evening with Team Ninja s Yasuda-san and @giwamasa, who signed up with Team Ninja @TeamNINJAStudio pic.twitter.com/WQTb6As0o2

-- Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) October 8, 2021

Sony s Shuhei Yoshida revealed this little details in a tweet, revealing himself socializing with Yamagiwa and also Fumihiko Yasuda. Team Ninja quickly verified that Yamagiwa was without a doubt working at the company. Yamagiwa had actually also serviced video games such as Deracine and Tokyo Forest. He left Japan Studio back in February when Sony shut down but kept the Astro Crawler developer Group Asobi with each other as a standalone workshop.

Today, Team Ninja is functioning with Square Enix on Stranger of Heaven: Last Fantasy Origin, which is due out on March 18, 2022, for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

Previously this year, Yasuda confirmed that Team Ninja isn t presently servicing any additional entries right into the Nioh or Ninja Gaiden franchise business, however is focusing on new titles such as the previously mentioned Unfamiliar person of Heaven: Last Dream Origin. Nioh 2 was released in 2014 on PlayStation 4, while it introduced on PC and PlayStation 5 back in February. Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection released back in June.