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Grasshopper CCO and famed composer Akira Yamaoka has said retail games won’t “die out”, but admitted it is looking towards an expansion on Steam.

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Warner has released a new behind-the scenes video for Lollipop Chainsaw, which focuses on the music included in the game.

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Grasshopped Manufacture’s Akira Yamaoka has added his name to a list of Japanese developers expressing concerns for the domestic development scene.

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Grasshopper is keen on a Shadows of the Damned sequel, with composter Akira Yamaoka telling Eurogamer he’d like to see a new installment.

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“I’d love for [Akira Yamaoka] to be involved. Unfortunately, he left Konami, and can’t do the music for the new games [which is] a Japanese business politics sort of thing. We’d like for him to be there, but he’s not. So we took seriously finding a replacement, because you can’t throw in just any old sound guy. So we found Dan Licht, who does the music on Dexter. He was actually our top choice, so we were fortunate that he was willing to jump in.” – Silent Hill: Downpour producer Tomm Hullet to GameFront.

Silent Hill composer turned senior Grasshopper Manufacturer staffer Akira Yamaoka has said the studio’s brand success comes from not pandering to players.

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A new trailer for the latest installment in Konami’s long-running Silent Hill series debuted at TGS this week. More »

Silent Hill fans were worried when the latest project lost its long-time, greatly respected composer Akira Yamaoka, but the game’s design director says that they’re getting along just fine without him.
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A teaser video for Grasshopper Manufacture’s PSN and XBL shooter Sine Mora has been released. Co-developed at Digital Reality and scored by former Silent Hill man Akira Yamaoka, the “diesel punk” game has plenty of floating robots with octoarms, and massive trains and planes that do things only a fantasy setting such as this would allow. While the video doesn’t show any real gameplay, it does show off enough in-game footage to give you an idea of what to expect when it is released this winter. Thanks, GameSetWatch.

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Famed composer Akira Yamaoka has turned his hand to game development once more.

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Ex-Silent Hill composer, now Grasshopper Manufacture music boss, Akira Yamaoka’s Play for Japan album is now available from iTunes. The album was made following the wake of the devastating Japanese tsunami and earthquakes in March, and contains contributions from gaming’s biggest composers, including Nobuo Uematsu. You can get it from iTunes here for £7.99. Thanks, Kotaku.

That announcement from Hideo Kojima that was promised last night? It’s not a game, but it’s not an empty-handed announcement either: the formal announcement of Project S, a radio play of Snatcher, with the involvement of Grasshopper’s Suda 51 and Akira Yamaoka.

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It’s time for the weekend, and our vacation starts as soon as we post this. Enjoy this shorts post, and the shot of what the author of it will be surrounded by for the next week. Kisses.

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Another strange, and fun developer diary has been released for Shadows of the Damned.

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Drop everything, it is time to blow minds. Grasshopper Manufacture is making an Evangelion rhythm game.

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“In essence, I’m almost starting to do a complete 180, where I want to create content that maybe by the time you finish you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is from Akira Yamaoka?! Wow, this is completely new to me! It isn’t a side of Akira Yamaoka that I knew. Well, he’s evolved, or he’s changed, or something has happened.’” – Ex Silent Hill-composer, now at Grasshopper Manufacture, Akira Yamaoka, speaking to Gama. He also hinted he’s looking to show a new project he’s involved with “maybe by the end of this year.”

Grasshopper Manufacture has raised over $80,000 for Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief funds.

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Goichi Suda’s studio Grasshopper Manufacture has released a trio of songs for free download to honour victims of Japan’s ongoing state of emergency.

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Shinji Mikami will continue to be the producer on Shadows of the Damned despite the buyout last week of his new studio Tango Gameworks by ZeniMax, VG247 can reveal.

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Think Services has announced more speaking engagements for GDC next month, including lectures on Deus Ex 3, music composition from Silent Hill producer Akira Yamaoka, and Batman: Arkham Asylum.

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