Ex-SIE Producer Teruyuki Toriyama Joins VR Startup Thirdverse
Thirdverse announced that it hired ex-SIE
Bloodborne Producer Teruyuki Toriyama as producer and manager of its Game Design Division. Toriyama himself also made an announcement via his Twitter account. The announcement comes a few months after Toriyama officially left Sony Interactive Entertainment back in December 2020.
Toriyama previously worked as a producer for games such as
Bloodborne and its subsequent
Soul Sacrifice series and the
Demon’s Souls remake for the PlayStation 5. Additionally, he helped produced quite a few VR games including FromSoftware’s
Déraciné and Japan Studio’s
Astro Bot: Rescue Mission.