Hidetaka Miyazaki

What Hidetaka Miyazaki is

Hidetaka Miyazaki is the Representative Director and President of FromSoftware, the studio behind the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring. The company's own profile on the English side of fromsoftware.jp lists him first under Board of Directors as Representative Director and President Hidetaka Miyazaki, with Takahiro Yamamoto as Senior Managing Director and Naotoshi Zin as Advisor. The profile is a standing company page that describes the office he holds; it carries no publication date and gives no year for the appointment.

Outside the company's own paperwork he is presented by the platform holders as the person behind the games. Sony's PlayStation blog named him personally when it introduced the Souls games, and Sony's store page for Elden Ring puts his name next to the author George R. R. Martin as one of the two people the game is credited to. FromSoftware's pages use the corporate title; Sony's and Nintendo's pages use the director's role.

Which games does Hidetaka Miyazaki direct?

PlayStation's blog describes him as the director of named titles. A post published on 4 February 2011 calls Demon's Souls, released in 2009 on PlayStation 3, one produced under the watchful eye of Demon's Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki, and signs his answers as Hidetaka Miyazaki, director, Dark Souls. An interview published on 13 July 2018 introduces him as the famed director of Dark Souls and Bloodborne and covers Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which Sony's blog then described as a new PlayStation 4 project in development.

Elden Ring appears in the same pattern. PlayStation's official store page for the game calls it the latest fantasy action-RPG from Hidetaka Miyazaki (Bloodborne, Dark Souls) and George R. R. Martin, so the two names the platform holder attaches to the game are his and the author's. Nintendo, introducing The Duskbloods years later, likewise went to him for the project's description.

Quick facts

FromSoftware's company profile lists Hidetaka Miyazaki as Representative Director and President. PlayStation's blog named him Demon's Souls director and director, Dark Souls in a post published on 4 February 2011, and described him as the director of Dark Souls and Bloodborne in an interview published on 13 July 2018 that covered Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. PlayStation's store page for Elden Ring credits that game to him and George R. R. Martin. Nintendo published a Creator's Voice interview with him on 4 April 2025 in which he said he is the director of The Duskbloods, a Nintendo Switch 2 game Nintendo described as releasing in 2026.

What is Hidetaka Miyazaki working on now?

Nintendo published a three-chapter Creator's Voice interview with him on 4 April 2025. In it he introduced himself directly: My name is Hidetaka Miyazaki. I work at FromSoftware, and I am the director for The Duskbloods. He said the project began after FromSoftware presented a rough outline during a meeting with Nintendo, and that it was first handled by a small team as a title for Nintendo Switch before the work moved to Switch 2.

He described The Duskbloods as a PvPvE title, in his words an online multiplayer focused game, with both player vs player and player vs enemy gameplay, and said the game's player characters are called Bloodsworn. He added that making a multiplayer-focused title does not mean the company has decided to shift away from single player focused games, pointing to the Switch 2 version of Elden Ring.

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