On Bloodborne’s 10th Birthday, and With Neither a Sequel nor a Next-Gen Update in Sight, Fans Once Again Organize a Return to Yharnam

Bloodborne turns 10 years aged today, and fans are celebrating by organizing yet different instrumentality to Yharnam assemblage event.

FromSoftware’s PlayStation 4 masterpiece launched connected March 24, 2015, and helped cement the Japanese developer arsenic 1 of the top of our time. Critical and commercialized acclaim followed, and a follow-up successful the vein of the Dark Souls sequels seemed inevitable.

But since then… nothing. Why hasn’t Sony followed up Bloodborne with either a current-gen remaster, a full-on sequel, oregon astatine the precise slightest a next-gen update that would yet marque it officially playable successful 60fps? Fans person begged Sony for much Bloodborne ever since it came out. The deafening soundlessness successful effect remains 1 of the astir puzzling concern decisions successful each video games.

Earlier this year, we got an mentation of sorts. Following his exit from Sony, PlayStation fable Shuhei Yoshida revealed his Bloodborne no-show theory. To beryllium wide up front: this is Yoshida’s opinion, which successful an interrogation with Kinda Funny Games helium stressed was not wrong information, oregon the uncover of the existent deliberations wrong the bowels of Sony itself.

“Bloodborne has ever been the astir asked thing,” Yoshida said. “And radical wonderment wherefore we haven’t truly done anything, adjacent an update oregon a remaster. Should beryllium easy, right? The institution is known for doing truthful galore remasters, right, immoderate radical get frustrated.

“I person lone my idiosyncratic mentation to that situation. I near first-party truthful I don’t cognize what’s going on, but my mentation is, you cognize due to the fact that I remember, you know, Miyazaki-san really, truly loved Bloodborne, you know, what helium created. So I deliberation helium is interested, but he’s truthful palmy and he’s truthful busy, truthful helium doesn’t want, helium cannot bash himself, but helium does not privation anyone other to interaction it. So that’s my theory. And the PlayStation squad respect his wish. So that’s my guess, right? Theory. I americium not revealing immoderate concealed information, to beryllium clear.”

Miyazaki-san is of people Hidetaka Miyazaki, the brag of FromSoftware. And yes, he’s incredibly successful. Not lone for the influential Dark Souls series, but, astir recently, the mainstream deed Elden Ring, which propelled FromSoftware to caller heights. So overmuch truthful that it’s getting a multiplayer spin-off this year.

And it seems evident to accidental Miyazaki volition beryllium incredibly engaged with aggregate projects to nonstop and a institution to run. After Bloodborne came retired successful 2015, Miyazaki directed Dark Souls 3, past 2019’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice for Activision, past the aforementioned Elden Ring for Bandai Namco. What's next? Miyazaki has yet to say.

In interviews, Miyazaki often deflects questions astir Bloodborne, pointing to the information FromSoftware does not ain the IP. But successful February past year, Miyazaki astatine slightest admitted the crippled would payment from a merchandise connected much modern hardware.

In the years since, modders person tried to capable the gaps with fan-made projects that amended upon the basal PS4 Bloodborne experience. But Sony has taken a dim view. Well-known Bloodborne 60fps mod creator Lance McDonald announced successful January that he’d received a takedown notification connected behalf of Sony Interactive Entertainment “asking that I region links to the spot I posted connected the internet, truthful I've present done so.” The DMCA takedown arrived 4 years aft the mod was released.

Then, conscionable a week later, Lilith Walther, creator of Nightmare Kart, which was antecedently known arsenic Bloodborne Kart, and the eye-catching Bloodborne PSX demake, tweeted to accidental an aged YouTube video of the demake was deed with a copyright claim.

Recently, fans managed to get PS4 emulators to present thing akin to a remaster connected PC. The tech experts astatine Digital Foundry released a video covering “a breakthrough successful PS4 emulation” via ShadPS4, which means Bloodborne is present afloat playable commencement to decorativeness successful 60fps. Could this breakthrough person triggered an assertive effect from Sony? IGN asked Sony for remark astatine the time, but it has yet to respond.

That’s each we person to spell on, really, which leaves Bloodborne fans to instrumentality it upon themselves to signifier Return to Yharnam assemblage events. Another kicks disconnected today, connected Bloodborne’s 10th anniversary, and calls connected fans to make a caller character, and summon arsenic galore random cooperators and invaders arsenic possible, and permission in-game messages flagging they’re a portion of this latest assemblage drive.

Perhaps this volition beryllium each that’s near for fans to bash successful the satellite of Bloodborne everlastingly more.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].