Tag: Grasshopper Manufacture
News Suda 51 Says 'Everyone Cares Too Much About Metacritic Scores'
Shinji Mikami says "unique games" are being drowned out
Japanese video game industry legends Goichi "Suda 51" Suda and Shinji Mikami (of No More Heroes and Resident Evil fame, respectively) aren't huge fans of critical aggregator Metacritic. The storied developers think that the industry practice has a detrimental effect on creativity, which is...
News Shadows of the Damned Remaster Is Now Hella Remastered, Playable at PAX East
Suda51 will play blackjack with you
Grasshopper has today announced the remaster of PS3 title Shadows Of The Damned it has in development is officially titled Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered. It doesn't have a release date and no platforms have been confirmed yet, but the game will be playable at PAX East next week. Members of the team will...
News Suda51 Teases Unannounced Grasshopper Manufacture Game In Suitably Direct Fashion
"What's up, a**holes?"
The Grasshopper Direct 2023 showcase was held yesterday, and it was suitably chaotic. We were even purportedly shown Grasshopper Manufacture's latest video game, with eccentric CEO Suda51 apparently being passed out for the rest of the Direct-style sendup. The 11-minute video celebrates 25 years of Grasshopper in a humourous...
News Shadows of the Damned, the Forgotten PS3 Shooter, Is Getting a Remaster
Find out more next week
Once upon a time, EA had a partners program which saw it add some lower-profile titles to its catalogue, including Alice: Madness Returns and Shadows of the Damned. The latter, a collaboration between Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacturer and Resident Evil 4’s Shinji Mikami, was a grisly, largely forgettable third-person...
Assassins bleed
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is the kind of the game that revels in poking fun at its contemporaries – and yet somehow finds itself part of the punchline. This irreverent slice of post-modern punk has all of the verve of its Nintendo Wii predecessors, but it’s padded by stale gameplay segments which threaten to undo all...
E3 2019 Is Suda51 Teasing a No More Heroes 3 Announcement?
Take it to Instagram
After announcing Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes for PS4, prolific developer Suda51 said that he may have an announcement to make at E3 2019. Well, it looks like that reveal is set to become a reality with a potential No More Heroes 3 on the cards. The man himself has made an interesting post on Instagram, with the caption...
News Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Breaks Nintendo Switch Exclusivity to Release on PS4
Announced by Suda51
Suda51 himself had been teasing an announcement taking place at his panel at MomoCom, and here it is: Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is coming to PS4. Originally released earlier this year for the Nintendo Switch, the game was met with fairly mixed reviews, although our friends over at Nintendo Life enjoyed the experience...
News Suda51 Classic Killer7 Revived in Free-to-Play PS4 Title Let It Die
Part of Grasshopper's celebrations
Suda51’s legendary super-stylised PlayStation 2 action adventure Killer7 will be revived in Let It Die, developer Grasshopper Manufacture has announced. It’s all part of the studio’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, with the first part of the new content set to drop this spring. No other information has been...
E3 2014 What Ever Happened to Suda 51's PS4 Exclusive Lily Bergamo?
He let it die
In arguably the most disturbing reveal of Sony's E3 press conference this year, Suda51 debuted a trailer for his newest game Let It Die. However, the ambitious auteur was also previously known to be working on the PlayStation 4 exclusive action title Lily Bergamo. What's more, the presumably bonkers brawler was set to release sometime...
E3 2014 Suda 51's New PS4 Exclusive Let It Die Is Brutal and Bizarre
Speaking words of wisdom
Distinctive auteur Suda 51 is about as divisive as they come. Indeed, the luminary's games either cause intense adoration, or confused and bewildered disgust. And if this trailer for his new PlayStation 4 exclusive Let It Die is anything to go by, that trend isn't likely to be changing in the near future. The live action...
News The PS4 Is Super Speedy, Says Killer Is Dead Dev Suda51
Exclusive title on the way
It seems to have become a trend for high-profile developers to lavish undying praise on the PlayStation 4, with the most salient example being Hideo Kojima's laconic love letter to our beloved black box. The fun doesn't stop there, though, as decidedly distinctive director Goichi Suda, a
News Suda51: PS4 Title Lily Bergamo Is Not an Average Action Game
What is it, then?
It’s been several months since No More Heroes creator Suda51 pulled back the curtain on PlayStation 4 exclusive Lily Bergamo during Sony’s pre-Tokyo Game Show press event – but we still don’t actually know a whole lot about it. Speaking as part of one of the manufacturer’s
News Could Lily Bergamo Be Baffling Western PS4 Consoles?
Question time
Prepare yourself for more puzzling plots and suggestive cut-scenes, as Suda51’s first PlayStation 4 project Lily Bergamo could be heading overseas. The title – which was announced with a stylish video earlier in the year – has been trademarked by parent company GungHo in North America, making an international releas
News Killer Is Dead Stars an Assassin with an Outrageous Arm
Packing heat
It's been a long time since we learned anything about Grasshopper Manufacture's upcoming PlayStation 3 action title, Killer Is Dead. The game was announced in April last year, but has been kept under wraps for the past eight months. Thankfully, that's changed this week, courtesy of a Famitsu magazine exposé. The report, translated by
News Lollipop Chainsaw Ships 700,000 Units Worldwide
Record breaker
Grasshopper Manufacture is no stranger to commercial failure, but it looks like the studio has finally secured a timely hit. The Japanese developer has declared that it has shipped over 700,000 copies of Lollipop Chainsaw worldwide, making it the most successful title in the company’s history. Studio gaffer Suda 51 and Japanese...
News Sine Mora Shooting onto PlayStation Vita
A nice surprise
In a somewhat unexpected announcement, Grasshopper has revealed that its former Xbox Live Arcade shooter Sine Mora is flying onto PlayStation Vita. The game – developed in conjunction with Digital Reality – is “a diesel punk shoot ‘em up that provides a unique take on the genre, where time is the ultimate factor”. The...
Interview Goichi Suda - Grasshopper Manufacture
Suda51 talks Lollipop Chainsaw, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and what "punk" means to his studio
There's crazy, and then there's Japanese studio Grasshopper Manufacture's particular brand of bonkers, which positively oozes from its upcoming title Lollipop Chainsaw. As the developer braces itself for the June release of its over-the-top teenage bubblegum...
News Japanese Lollipop Chainsaw Trailer Makes Our Day
Yummy and juicy
The world might be infested with rot and madness, but none of that’s stopping Juliet Starling from donning her favourite bikini and going out zombie slaying. This Japanese trailer for upcoming Lollipop Chainsaw is as mad as you’d expect, with sparkles, inappropriate clothing and gore all at the centre of the footage. There’s...
News Lollipop Chainsaw Piles On The Stupidity, Introduces Antagonist Swan
Ignore Lollipop Chainsaw's antagonist Swan's similarities to The Cure frontman Robert Smith, because it definitely ain't like heaven at San Romero High School
As previous trailers have established, Lollipop Chainsaw is a zombie game with a bubblepop twist. Could there be a more fitting bad-guy than a misunderstood high-school goth? Sure, Lollipop...
News Lollipop Chainsaw's Boxart Is Appropriately Awesome
Good boxart should summarise a game's contents in a single image
Lollipop Chainsaw's front-cover does exactly that. The artwork shows protagonist Juliet Starling clutching at a chainsaw with her beheaded companion key-fob dangling from her waist. In the background are high-school lockers with zombies inside. Pretty much tells you everything you need...
GamesCom 2011 Grasshopper Manufacture Announces Black Knight Sword For PlayStation Network
Grasshopper Manufacture and imaginative game concepts go together like cheese and pineapple, so the Japanese developer's latest PlayStation Network title won't come as a huge surprise
Entitled Black Knight Sword, the downloadable title — which is set to be published by Digital Reality early next year — is a 2D platformer with a "picture...
News Debut Lollipop Chainsaw Trailer Hits The Web, Makes Us Smile
Lollipop Chainsaw protagonist Juliet Starling screams her insults as she thrusts a chainsaw into the face of an unsuspecting stumbling corpse
The result is not a fountain of crimson, but instead a splutter of glitter — such is the style of Suda 51's latest PlayStation 3 action title. From a commercial perspective we're not quite sure why...
News Grasshopper Goes Dieselpunk With PSN Shmup Sine Mora
We had to look up "dieselpunk" on Wikipedia
Apparently the buzzword represents "a sub-genre of the pop surrealist art movement, as well as a budding subculture, that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through the early 1950s with postmodern technology and sensibilities". Right. To be honest, all you really need to know is...
News In The Interests Of Proving That Lollipop Chainsaw Is A Genuine Product
Some of you may have seen our story on Lollipop Chainsaw earlier in the afternoon
The project may have drawn a stern, "Yeah, whatever, it's not even April fools," from the most cynical amongst you. We can confirm that the girly zombie slayer is indeed an actual product. In fact, Famitsu has released a batch of new screenshots to prove as...
Rumour Grasshopper Working On Cheerleader Zombie Slaying Game Called Lollipop Chainsaw [Updated]
Original story: If this rumour had any other developer's name attached to it, we'd call it rubbish
But this is a rumour for Grasshopper Manufacture's latest title; y'know, the Suda51 joint. That means it's hard to treat any rumours as nonsense — the crazier they are, the more likely they are to be true. Take Lollipop Chainsaw, the studio's latest...
News Shadows Of The Damned Director Leaves Grasshopper
Shadows Of The Damned director Massimo Guarini has left Grasshopper Manufacture to set-up a new studio
Guarini's upstart, Ovosonico Productions, will be based on "games, music and films with an attitude" according to the company's website.
Feature Let's Give EA Some Credit -- 'Twiggy' The Push Square Opinionator
Over the last three weeks I've played two niche games which I thoroughly enjoyed
Neither of the games were particularly successful at retail, but both enhanced my appreciation of EA as a publisher. Alice: Madness Returns was scorned for being derivative and classical in design, while Shadows Of The Damned was dismissed because of some poor gameplay...
News Konami Announces No More Heroes for PlayStation Move... Again
Travis touches down
The official US PlayStation blog gets plenty scoops – it is the official PlayStation blog after all – but not always. Cast your minds back to the early days of Movemodo – our first day of operation, in fact. We brought you news that Konami was bringing No More Heroes to PlayStation 3, and today Konami has announced it's...
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