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GungHo Online Entertainment president Kazuki Morishita feels Japanese developers “need to go back to basics” and remember why they “make games in the first place.”

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Dungeon crawler MIND≒0 (said “Mind Zero”, looking at the Japanese) is headed to Vita on August 1. Siliconera reports the RPG is a collaboration between Class of Heroes developer ZeroDiv and Acquire. Although it’s only been confirmed for Japanese release, it’s notable because it’s the first Acquire game to release since the Way of the Samurai and Sumiomi developer was snapped up by GungHo last year. GungHo also recently picked up Grasshopper Manufacture because it has about a gazillion bucks.

Ragnarok Odyssey is being remade for PlayStation 3 and Vita with new story content and all DLC. Gematsu reports the new version is a ‘complete reworking’, will release in Japan in July, and is called Ragnarok Odyssey Ace to differentiate it from the-Vita exclusive original. The action RPG came west late last year; no word on a localisation for this re-release as yet.

Grasshopper Manufacture founder Goichi Suda has confirmed that the studio’s recent acquisition by GungHo Entertainment will not restrict the developer’s creative freedom at all, in fact he now has complete creative freedom.

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A single mobile game is believed to be generating incredible sales figures in Japan.

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Publisher interference is not on the cards as part of GungHo’s acquisition of Grasshopper Manufacture, both companies have said.

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Killer is Dead and Lollipop Chainsaw developer Grasshopper Manufacture is to merge with Ragnarok publisher GungHo Online Entertainment as of February 1st. The announcement comes from the pages of this week’s Famitsu.

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