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Xenosaga [a] is a role-playing video game series developed by Monolith Soft and primarily published by Namco.Forming part of the wider Xeno metaseries, Xenosaga is set in a science fiction universe and follows a group of characters as they face both a hostile alien race called the Gnosis and human factions fighting for control of the Zohar, an artifact connected to a god-like energy called U-DO.
Dragon Ball Xenoverse (Japanese: ドラゴンボールゼノバース, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Zenobāsu) is an action role-playing fighting game based on the Dragon Ball franchise developed by Dimps and published by Bandai Namco Games. [5] It was released in February 2015 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows.
Xenoblade Chronicles X is unconnected to any previous game in the Xeno metaseries, although there are thematic and aesthetic references. [9] [10] [11] After Earth is caught in the crossfire of an alien war, humanity escapes on spaceships — only a few ships make it off the planet, one of them being the White Whale, containing the city New Los Angeles (NLA).
The "Xeno" prefix, which means something strange or foreign to a group, was used in connection with the game's themes. [21] The Xeno title has been repeated throughout the series: in an interview concerning Xenoblade Chronicles, director Tetsuya Takahashi said that the prefix had become a symbol referencing the previous works of Monolith Soft. [22]
Xenotransplantation (xenos-from the Greek meaning "foreign" or strange [1] [2]), or heterologous transplant, is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another. [3]
The genus name comes from Ancient Greek xeno (ξένος meaning "strange" or "alien") and hyla (ὕλη meaning "wood" or "forest") which is used for tree frogs, so the genus name means "strange tree frog." Xenohyla truncata means "strange truncated tree frog" after the shape of its body.
During the years when The Book of the New Sun was published, Wolfe published two stories from it separately: "Foila's Story: The Armiger's Daughter" (one of the entries in the story-telling contest in the Pelerines' hospital) and "The Tale of the Student and his Son" (one of the two stories that Severian reproduces from a book he obtained for Thecla when she was imprisoned).