Tag Archives: Grasshopper Manufacture

To celebrate the “undying” love between Juliet and the head of her boyfriend Nick, a new Lollipop Chainsaw has been released depicting said love. Hint: it involve killing zombies. Watch it below, complete with Italian subtitles. Lollipop Chainsaw is slated for a summer release on PS3 and Xbox 360.

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This week’s Dengeki has revealed Lollypop Chainsaw will be kept to a CERO D in Japan for the game’s regular edition. Want a way around the censorship? Buy the limited edition: it will be given the CERO Z rating, meaning it can go onto the market uncut. The limited edition will come with the option to pick between the modes rated D and Z. The magazine also said that both the English and Japanese voiceovers will make it into the Japanese version of the game.

No release date yet for the zombie slasher, but it’ll come out on PS3 and 360 from Warner. Thanks, Siliconera.

The first game from Tactics Ogre and Vagrant Story creator Yasumi Matsuno since his departure from Square Enix looks to tick all the right boxes.

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Warner has announced North American pre-order details for Lollipop Chainsaw, such as five unique outfits for Juliet. Offers for various retailers and shots of the content are posted below, along with a trailer.

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There are two kinds of sch’mup player – the kind that plays on normal, and the kind that has enhanced synaptic response and a wide masochistic streak. The latter are probably keen on Sine Mora’s “insane” difficulty setting.

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Grasshopper Manufacture has released a couple of new screens and a video which introduces the Swan, a villain in Lollipop Chainsaw.

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Digital Reality has announced that Sine Mora, the shoot’em up based on time manipulation co-developed with Grasshopper Manufacture, is to be an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive with Microsoft as its publisher.
Sine Mora is a diesel-punk shmup with scaling difficulty, containing both a Story and Arcade Mode with over 60 combinations of planes, characters and time manipulation devices and scaling difficulty.

A release date and price will be announced at a later date.

Grasshopper Manufacture, creator of offbeat titles Killer 7, No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned, has teamed up with Japanese social gaming company DeNA to work on new projects. Expect kooky results.

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The latest trailer for Grasshopper Manufacture’s Lollipop Chainsaw introduces a new character – Morikawa, Juliet’s mentor.

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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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This will be the greatest thing ever if something happened.

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“Of course we always wish to have a big hit, but at the same time – not just in Japan, but worldwide – I think it’s really difficult to be successful with a new IP. You really need an extraordinary amount of support to have a new franchise be successful. Unfortunately we couldn’t really do as well as we hoped for.” – Grasshopper’s Goichi Suda, speaking to Eurogamer at TGS on the difficulties of making a new IP. Grasshopper released Shadows of the Damned, via EA Partners, this past summer to critical success, but very low sales.

Suda51 has confirmed that while he came up with the idea for Diabolical Pitch, he’s handed development over to a separate team within Grasshopper Media. Therefore, it was that team who has come up with this intriguing little teaser trailer for the demon-smashing baseball interpretation called Diabolical Pitch.

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Goichi Suda has said the gaming concepts at Grasshopper Manufacture pretty much stem from his ideas, but when it comes to the actual execution, it varies per game.

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Joystiq has uploaded some extended footage of Black Knight Sword, complete with narration from the Japanese devs at Grasshopper Manufacture (translated.)
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We’ve seen a trailer and some boss fight footage already from Sine Mora, the upcoming shmup from Grasshopper Manufacture, and now we’re getting a close up glimpse at more gameplay.
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One of the more obscure highlights of Tokyo Game Show so far has been the big reveal Diabolical Pitch, formerly known as Codename D. Take Japanese favourite Suda51 and the team at Grasshopper Manufacture, throw in some motion controls, a baseball bat and some scary monsters, and you’re onto a winner.

While we haven’t yet had a chance to try out the upcoming XBLA title, the sneaky folk over at Joystiq smuggled a video camera in and grabbed some more footage of the game in action, plus a shaky-cam version of the first trailer.

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Microsoft has sent out information detailing what it showed during TGS 2011 today, and while you already know about Breakneck, a remake of the classic Halo 2 map Headlong for Halo: CE Anniversary, other goodies were revealed as well.

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Grasshopper’s lifted the veil off Kinect title Codename D, confirming the game’s proper name is Diabolical Pitch. The game sees you as a baseball player while you pitch and bat balls against incoming monsters. Joystiq reports that there’ll also be local two-player co-op, with one playing lifting the other for health support. Unveiled at TGS last year, Diabolical will releas as an XBLA title, according to the site. No date yet.

Satisfy your curiousity with this gameplay-heavy trailer for Grasshopper Manufacturer’s side-scrolling hack and slash, Black Knight Sword.

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