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Former Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls Producer Opens New Studio

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On April 10, 2025

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Teruyuki Toriyama, former Sony producer of Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls fame, joins the new Tokyo studio, Sirius.
The team plans to “create games that make users’ hearts shine.”
Sirius Studio aims to become a world-class developer, focusing on international game releases for consoles, PC, and VR/AR titles.

The former producer working for Sony’s Japan Studio, Teruyuki Toriyama, has joined a new studio in Tokyo, Japan, and some of his merits include Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls. Toriyama left Sony in 2020 and joined the Japanese studio Thirdverse, where he worked with producer Hikaru Okamura and Hideki Irie, a former executive producer at Sega.

Sony has a long list of popular IPs under its belt, including God of War, The Last of Us, and Ghost of Tsushima. However, PlayStation is also partial to soulslike titles, which is why FromSoftware’s new IP The Duskbloods made waves at Nintendo’s recent showcase. With all eyes on Nintendo’s new console, even Sony is surveying PlayStation users’ interest in the Switch 2. This effort could be designed to gather intel in preparation for the company’s next handheld, succeeding the slick PlayStation Portal.

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Sirius Studio is the new frontier co-founded by Toriyama, Irie, and Tomohiro Suzuki. The studio is a subsidiary of Gz Group, based in Osaka, Japan, which is a company catering to VR and AR games. Suzuki will run the studio as president, with Irie serving as executive vice president and executive producer, embarking on a similar path to Call of Duty Zombies’ dev Jason Blundell who formed a new PlayStation studio titled Dark Outlaw. Unlike the co-founders’ previous company Thirdverse, which shifted its focus to the production of casual games, Sirius wants to target the “planning, development and sales of digital games for consoles and PCs,” and VR and AR titles on a high-end scale.

Former Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls Producer Joins New Sirius Studio

Toriyama and FromSoft’s work on Demon’s Souls qualified the title as one of the best RPGs of the 2020s so far, joining Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Baldur’s Gate 3, but Sirius is currently keeping tight-lipped on announcing any high-end titles just yet. The team’s long-term plan is to turn the studio into a “world-class development studio,” with a plan to release games internationally instead of only in Japan to appeal to 80% of the VR market in English-speaking countries.

Having worked on such a beloved title as Bloodborne for Sony, Sirius wants gamers to form a similar attachment to its projects, saying the studio aims to “create games that make users’ hearts shine.” 10 years on from its initial launch, Bloodborne has been a staple in the soulslike genre, and fans have been desperate for a sequel for years. The fandom nearly went into meltdown during Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct showcase because the debut of FromSoft’s new IP looked very close to being the successor. Still, The Duskbloods could be the Bloodborne sequel gamers have been waiting for.