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Blockade unveils details on the Heavenly Sword film

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony and Blockade Entertainment are unveiling more details today about their “Heavenly Sword” film, an independent animated movie that will be released in 2014.

The film is based on the Heavenly Sword video game that launched with the debut of the PlayStation 3 video game console in 2007. Blockade Entertainment, a film studio that is also producing a film based on the Ratchet & Clank video game series, financed and produced the film, which uses computer-generated animated characters.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.