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Killer is Dead developer Grasshopper Manufacture has released a huge gallery of new shots for its twisted action game, showing off four bosses, plenty of sword-play some bloke riding a tiger, obviously. The game’s out on PS3 and Xbox 360 in August.

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Following on from the memorable Killer is Dead trailer revealed at the beginning of the month, Grasshopper Manufacture has returned with a jazzy number highlighting the August 2013 release’s sensual side.

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Grasshopper Manufacture CEO doesn’t think sexuality in video games should be as big deal as it is in western countries.

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Grasshopper Manufacture boss Goichi Suda has discussed his next action game in a new interview. It follows the studio’s recent batch of teaser art, which smells a lot like a No More Heroes spin-off starring Shinobu.

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Killer is Dead has received a ‘new’ trailer from publisher Deep Silver. Developed by Suda 51′s Grasshoper Manufacture, the game follows assassin Mondo Zappa as he carves up goons with his katana.

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Deep Silver will publish Grasshopper Manufacture’s Killer Is Dead in Europe, according to an announcement from the firm. The Suda 51 title, now owned by Japanese publisher GungHo and XSEED will be published the title in North America it has been confirmed. Killer is Dead launches this summer on PS3 and Xbox 360. New screenshots are below.

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Earlier this morning we reported that Ragnarok publisher GungHo Online Entertainment had acquired No More Heroes developer Grasshopper Manufacture. The publisher has now published an official statement on the matter, with comment from Grasshopper founder Goichi Suda.

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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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Killer is Dead – Grasshopper Manufacture’s rather mad-sounding hack n’ slash title – has been tied to publisher XSEED following a string of domain name registrations that appeared earlier this week. The publisher has contacted VG247 to deliver a frank, but painfully short debunker.

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Killer is Dead seems like it’s shaping up to be a Suda 51 fan’s dream. Swords, assassins, Yakuza, tigers, all sorts of weird shit. The Grasshopper Manufacture founder has been talking about the game in some detail among the pages of this week’s Famitsu. It sounds insane.

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Suda 51′s Killer is Dead may be heading westward courtesy of XSEED if domain registrations dug by Superannuation are any indication. The domains: killerisdead-game as well as killandlove.com and loveandkill.com were all registered by the publisher. A confirmation for the west has yet to be announced, but, the game is slated for a release in Japan this summer on PS3 and Xbox 360. We’ll send a mail and ask. Killer is Dead was last spring, and featured in the latest issue of Famitsu.

Killer is Dead screenshots have been posted over on Famitsu. The cell-shaded actioner was announced in the magazine this week, and is the latest from Suda 51′s Grasshopper Manufacture. It is slated for a summer release on PS3 and Xbox 360. You should go have a look.

Suda 51 and Grasshopper Manufacture’s Killer is Dead is featured in the latest edition of Famitsu. Announced as being in development last year, the game that takes place in a future where the Moon is a vacation destination and the main character’s arm is your main weapon.

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Grasshopper Manufacture’s traditional side-scrolling action game Black Knight Sword will be on the PlayStation Network as of today.
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Black Knight Sword from Suda 51 will release on Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, December 12. Much like the Black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail, the fella is missing arms and legs, – wait – no, it looks like he has both sets of appendages in the screenshots posted below. Bummer. Anyway, he can still bite your legs off if he feels froggy enough we reckon. The knight must partake in an adventure through a strange spin on a classic fairytale, where he’s on a mission to defeat the wicked creatures of the night, and make the “super evil Dark Princess pay” some sort of penalty. Shots are below.

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Sine Mora, the critically acclaimed and brutally challenging side-scroller from Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality should be heading to PS3 and PS Vita imminently, as suggested by a new launch trailer. See the clip below and marvel at its Sine-ness. Mora-ness?

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A video featuring a short look at Liberation Maiden, Crimson Shroud, and Aero Porter has been released by Nintendo. The video provides small gameplay clips from the three 3DS eShop titles. Liberation Maiden, from Suda 51, is already out in Europe and is heading to the US as are the other two titles. The games were created in partnership with Level-5 through the Guild01 compilation for Nintendo 3DS, and a follow-up called Guild02 was announced in May 24, and will include designers Keiji Inafune, Kazuya Asano, Takemaru Abiko and Kaz Ayabe.

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Liberation Maiden, Aero Porter, and Crimson Shroud are releasing on eShop, and Level-5 has sent over some information on the games.

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No More Heroes: World Ranker is out now on Android. An adaptation of Suda 51′s stellar assassin’ brawler sees players making their own killer and fighting to be the world’s number one.

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Suda 51 has said at one point, he and the team at Grasshopper considered adding Move support to Lollipop Chainsaw. Instead, he said the team decided to focus on the more on the game for the time being, but “aren’t ruling it out,” for the future he told the PS Blog. So, it’s possible support for the peripheral could be patched into the game in the future. Lollipop Chainsaw releases on PS3 and Xbox 360 on June 12 in the US, June 13 in Australia, and June 15 in Europe. For fun, below the break is a video of Suda playing Tokyo Jungle over on Andriasang, as well as one of the game’s producer and director playing Lollipop Chainsaw.