Ancient (company)

Ancient Corp. (株式会社エインシャント Kabushiki-Gaisha Einshanto) is a video game developer founded on April 1, 1990, and managed by the game music composer Yuzo Koshiro. The company was founded by his mother, Tomo Koshiro, while his sister Ayano Koshiro also works at the company as a character and graphic designer. In addition to developing, planning, and producing games, Ancient (by the way of Yuzo Koshiro) contributes music to other games not directly worked by the company.

Games worked on

  • Sonic the Hedgehog - Game Gear, Master System, 1991
  • Streets of Rage 2 - Mega Drive, 1993
  • ActRaiser 2 - Super Nintendo, 1993
  • Robotrek - Super Nintendo, 1994
  • Beyond Oasis - Mega Drive, 1994
  • The Legend of Oasis - Sega Saturn, 1996
  • Vatlva - Sega Saturn, 1996
  • Columns Arcade Collection - Sega Saturn, 1997
  • Tamagotchi Pack - Sega Saturn, 1998
  • Fox Junction - PlayStation, 1998
  • Animetic Story Game 1: Card Captor Sakura - PlayStation, 1999
  • Shenmue - Dreamcast, 1999
  • Car Battler Joe - Game Boy Advance, 2001
  • Amazing Island - GameCube, 2003
  • Ancient (album)

    Ancient is an album by Japanese new age artist, Kitarō, which was released in 2001.

    The album was nominated for 44th Grammy Awards New Age Best Album in 2002.

    Track listing

    All songs written and composed by Kitaro. 

    Charts and awards

    Personnel

  • Gary Barlough - Engineer
  • Barry Goldberg - Mix
  • Doug Sax - Mastering
  • Eiichi Naito - Management
  • Dino Malito - Management
  • Kazu Kuni - Art Direction & Design
  • References

    External links

  • Kitaro Official site (English)
  • Kitaro Official site (Japanese)
  • Kitaro TV - Kitaro's official YouTube page
  • Kitaro Facebook
  • List of Legacy of Kain characters

    This is a list of characters in the Legacy of Kain series of video games, created and produced by game developers Crystal Dynamics and Silicon Knights. The franchise, which comprises five action-adventure games—Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996), Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (1999), Soul Reaver 2 (2001), Blood Omen 2 (2002), and Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003)—takes place in the fantasy land of Nosgoth, and follows the protagonist, Kain, a vampire destined to preserve the balance of the world. He and Raziel, the series' secondary playable character, are supported by a variety of non-player characters and bosses.

    Inspired by the literary style of playwright William Shakespeare, Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack and writer Ken McCulloch made an effort to subvert ideas of moral absolutism when conceiving Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain's main cast, feeling that the video game industry lacked a story addressing issues of good and evil, propaganda, and fate. Crystal Dynamics' Amy Hennig, who directed subsequent games, continued this trend in the sequels, aiming to avoid two-dimensional, uncomplicated characters. She felt it ideal to ensure that each one was given depth, flaws and realistic motives corresponding to their belief systems.

    Master

    Master, masters and the Master may refer to:

    Ranks and titles

  • Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline
  • Master (college), head of a college
  • Schoolmaster, presiding officer of a school
  • Master (form of address), a title used for boys and young men, in formal correspondence
  • Dharma master, an honorific title for Buddhist monks and nuns
  • Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions
  • Master (martial arts)
  • Master (naval), a former naval rank
  • Master (Peerage of Scotland), the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland
  • Chess master, a rank of chess player
  • Master, the Captain of a ship
  • Master craftsman in the Medieval guilds
  • Master-at-arms, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy
  • Master of Ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance.
  • Masters of the Ancient Wisdom (Theosophy), reputed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the founders of the Theosophical Society
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP)

    Yeah Yeah Yeahs (mislabeled as Master) is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' self-titled debut EP, released in 2001 by the band's own label, Shifty. It is sometimes incorrectly called Master due to the prominence of a necklace bearing that word on the album's cover. It reached #1 on the UK Indie Chart.

    The EP was named NME's second best single of 2002.

    Track listing

    All songs written and composed by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, except “Mystery Girl” (Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Jack Martin).

    The track "Our Time" interpolates the Tommy James and the Shondells song "Crimson and Clover"; when Karen O sings "It's the year to be hated / So glad that we made it," the melody is taken from the hit song, which reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.

    Personnel

  • Brian Chasedrums
  • Nick Zinnerguitars
  • Karen Ovocals
  • Production

  • Crispin – artwork
  • Chuck Scott – mastering
  • Jerry Teel – engineer
  • References

    External links

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Metacritic
  • List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters

    This article lists the major and recurring fictional characters created by Joss Whedon for the television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For detailed descriptions, see individual character pages.

    Main characters

    The following characters were featured in the opening credits of the program.

  • Buffy Anne Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar)
  • The show's titular protagonist, Buffy is "The Slayer", one in a long line of young girls chosen by fate to battle evil forces in the form of vampires and demons. The Slayer has no jurisdiction over human crime. This calling mystically endows her with a limited degree of clairvoyance, usually in the form of prophetic dreams, as well as dramatically increased physical strength, endurance, agility, intuition, and speed and ease of healing. There traditionally has been only one Slayer alive at any given moment, with a new one called upon the event of her death.

  • Alexander "Xander" LaVelle Harris (Nicholas Brendon)
  • Xander is a close friend of Buffy. Possessing no supernatural skills, Xander provides comic relief as well as a grounded, everyman perspective in the supernatural Buffyverse. In another departure from the usual conventions of television, Xander is notable for being an insecure and subordinate male in a world dominated by powerful females.

    Éder (Portuguese footballer)

    Éderzito António Macedo Lopes (born 22 December 1987), commonly known as Éder, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for French club Lille OSC on loan from Swansea City as a forward.

    He started playing professionally in 2008 with Académica, and signed for Braga four years later. Over the course of seven seasons, he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 143 games and 38 goals.

    A Portuguese international since 2012, Éder represented the country at the 2014 World Cup.

    Club career

    Early years

    Born in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Éder moved to Portugal as a child, and started playing football with Associação Desportiva e Cultural da Adémia in the Coimbra District at the age of 11. He made his senior debut with F.C. Oliveira do Hospital and G.D. Tourizense, the latter in the third division and the farm team of Académica de Coimbra.

    Académica

    Éder made his top level debut for Académica on 24 August 2008, in a 0–1 away loss against C.F. Estrela da Amadora. He scored his first goal for the club at the end of the season, netting the Students equalizing goal in an eventual 3–1 victory over Associação Naval 1º de Maio.

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