{"id":1221,"date":"2026-03-01T01:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/shuttered-studio-bluepoint-reportedly-pitched-a-bloodborne-remake-but-it-got-shot-down-by-fromsoftware\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:37:44","slug":"shuttered-studio-bluepoint-reportedly-pitched-a-bloodborne-remake-but-it-got-shot-down-by-fromsoftware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/shuttered-studio-bluepoint-reportedly-pitched-a-bloodborne-remake-but-it-got-shot-down-by-fromsoftware\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuttered studio Bluepoint reportedly pitched a Bloodborne remake, but it got shot down by FromSoftware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bloodborne<\/em> fans may not be happy to hear that a remake was reportedly rejected, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s completely off the table. <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/sony-buys-bluepoint-games-155507719.html\">Bluepoint Games<\/a>, Sony&#8217;s closed-down studio behind many PlayStation remakes, pitched remaking the classic Gothic horror RPG in early 2025, but was blocked by the game&#8217;s developer, FromSoftware, according to a <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-02-27\/sony-s-bluepoint-pitched-bloodborne-remake-before-closure?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MjIyMjY3OSwiZXhwIjoxNzcyODI3NDc5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQjRWUTJLR0NURlowMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.s6maZIveh-F152mZBWUNjPFeE0Lm7AFRegwaizQvVlA&amp;leadSource=uverify%20wall\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>Bloomberg<\/em> reported, Bluepoint pitched a <em>Bloodborne<\/em> remake after several years of working towards a live-service title in the God of War franchise that was ultimately canceled. Looking for the next project, a modern-day version of <em>Bloodborne<\/em> made a lot of sense, considering the title came out in 2015 and Bluepoint was responsible for the successful <em>Demon&#8217;s Souls<\/em> remake in 2020. However, <em>Bloomberg<\/em>&#8216;s sources said that FromSoftware was against it, but didn&#8217;t offer a concrete reason why. With some digging, <em>Bloomberg<\/em>&#8216;s Jason Schreier pointed to an <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jMsGB2PItes\">interview<\/a> from Kinda Funny Games with PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida, which aired last year. In the video, Yoshida mentioned that FromSoftware&#8217;s president, Hidetaka Miyazaki, wanted to pursue a <em>Bloodborne<\/em> remake, but was too busy to do it himself and &#8220;doesn&#8217;t want anyone else to touch it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After failing to get the <em>Bloodborne<\/em> remake greenlit, Bluepoint wasn&#8217;t able to secure another project for more than a year, according to the <em>Bloomberg<\/em> report. Now that Bluepoint has been <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/playstation\/sony-is-shutting-down-the-studio-behind-the-demons-souls-remake-195234213.html\">shut down<\/a>, we&#8217;re likely even further away from a remake. That&#8217;s not to say a remake will never happen, but when it does, it&#8217;ll have to get a stamp of approval and likely a lot of oversight from <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/nintendo\/fromsoftware-the-duskbloods-switch-2-2026-release-142025792.html\">FromSoftware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/playstation\/shuttered-studio-bluepoint-reportedly-pitched-a-bloodborne-remake-but-it-got-shot-down-by-fromsoftware-173744228.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/shuttered-studio-bluepoint-reportedly-pitched-a-bloodborne-remake-but-it-got-shot-down-by-fromsoftware\/\">Shuttered studio Bluepoint reportedly pitched a Bloodborne remake, but it got shot down by FromSoftware<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloodborne fans may not be happy to hear that a remake was reportedly rejected, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s completely off the table. Bluepoint Games, Sony&#8217;s closed-down studio behind many PlayStation remakes, pitched remaking the classic Gothic horror RPG in early 2025, but was blocked by the game&#8217;s developer, FromSoftware, according to a Bloomberg report. As Bloomberg reported, Bluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remake after several years of working towards a live-service title in the God of War franchise that was ultimately canceled. Looking for the next project, a modern-day version of Bloodborne made a lot of sense, considering the title came out in 2015 and Bluepoint was responsible for the successful Demon&#8217;s Souls remake in 2020. However, Bloomberg&#8216;s sources said that FromSoftware was against it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}