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Criterion’s Alex Ward just tweeted that Grasshopper legend Suda51 is a Burnout Paradise mentalist.

“Suda51 came here for the day a few weeks ago,” said the dev boss.

“He’s a hardcore Burnout fan. I checked the servers – over 700hrs play.”

That’s a lot of hours. Just goes to show.

Ubisoft sat down with Goichi Suda during E3 and talked to him about Grasshopper Manufacture’s No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.

During the chat, Suda 51 discussed Travis Touchdown’s maturity, character interaction with players, the themes of life and death in the game, and how setting limits is something he avoided when creating the sequel.

“You don’t need to put any limits when it comes to raw expression,” he said. “Limiting expression is just something set up by people to please other people.

“So we didn’t do anything like that for No More Heroes 2.”

You can watch the full interview through here.

At Ubisoft’s E3 press event it was announced that No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle would be published by the company.

A small video was shown.

The game’s set three years after the original, and features both Travis Touchdown and Silvia Chryste.

It’s out for Wii in early 2010.

Press release below.
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IGN’s posted a translation of the No More Heroes 2 details from Famitsu this week, giving first notes on characters and plot.

The game’s set three years after the original, and features both Travis Touchdown and Silvia Chrystel.

According to that piece, “Due to heavy investment from large corporations, Santa Destroy has rapidly become a tourist town. One day, Sylvia suddenly appears before Travis and invites him to another assassin ranking battle.

“At that very moment, Travis’s sole friend, Bishop, is seen in somewhat of a pinch as a gang of ruffians take close aim at his head with guns.”

Full thing through there. Trailers, and all the rest of it, will be released during E3.

Wii Brasil’s posted the first images of No more Heroes 2, scanned from the latest Famitsu.

The game, titled No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, is shown off there in concept art and screens.

We could pretend to know something about it, but we didn’t play the first one. So we won’t.

Take a look.

Don’t own a Wii? Want to play No More Heroes? Tough. Suda51′s told 1UP there are no plans to do so. “Yet”.

“Actually, a lot of the fans were dying to play the game on other consoles, so I think it’d be great if I could do it, but there’s no plan yet,” said Suda.

“[If so,] I would match the content to [fit] the other consoles. No More Heroes could be a big title, like a big IP, so it’d be good to have a chance to release the game on other consoles, and that would maybe maximize the market.”

There’s a full interview through there. Via Develop and Kotaku.

Grasshopper’s redesigned its site to include first mention of a partnership with Square Enix, Siliconera reports.

That’s it, pretty much. Here’s a list of Mr 51′s business relations at the moment:

• ASCII CORPORATION -> The Silver Case
• CAPCOM CO.,LTD. -> killer7
• ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. -> Untitled horror game
• MARVELOUS INTERACTIVE INC. -> Contact / No More Heroes
• NAMCO BANDAI Holdings inc. -> Samurai Champloo / Blood+ One Night Kiss
• Q ENTERTAINMENT INC. -> Untitled horror game
• SEGA CORPORATION -> Shining Soul II
• SPIKE CO.,LTD., -> Michigan: Report from Hell
• SQUARE ENIX CO.,LTD. -> ???
• TECMO,LTD -> Fatal Frame IV
• UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT -> No More Heroes

Capcom’s Keiji Inafune and Grasshopper’s Goichi Suda will both speak at Nordic Game this year, the event’s announced.

“Having Keiji Inafune and Goichi Suda join Nordic Game this year highlights the strong and growing relationship between the Japanese and Nordic games communities” said NG boss Tom Felices, “and will offer attendees a unique opportunity to meet two of the most exciting game creators today”.

Nordic Game takes place in Malmö, Sweden, on May 19-20.

Full details through the link.

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Suda51′s Grasshopper Manufacture’s licensed Unreal Engine 3 for its upcoming multiplatform EA horror, the company’s announced.

“Unreal Engine 3 is a powerful, easy-to-implement game engine that is helping the creative team at Grasshopper quickly bring our vision to life,” said Suda.

“The innovative tools and technology in Unreal Engine 3 help developers create games faster, easier and with less risk.”

No date on the game as yet. Press release after the link.

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According to this 1UP story, early Suda51 game The Silver Case is to be released on PSN.

Originally a PSone game, The Silver Case if to be relaunched as part of the ongoing Grasshopper Manufacture 10th anniversary celebrations.

Loads more through there, taken from a recent GM event.

This is the best games company photograph ever taken. It’s the tenth anniversary staff photo of Grasshopper Manufacturer, with Suda grinning down the front. Honestly, that’s shit hot. Shit hot. And that’s that.

Thanks, GoNintendo.

Speaking to 1UP after last night’s announcement that Grasshopper Manufacture has signed its new horror game to EA, Killer 7 developer Suda51 said the fact EA published Rock Band was a major draw for the deal.

“Of course I had a chance to present it to different publishers, but EA was the company that understood the game and understood my approach to it,” he said.

“That’s why I took the chance to work with EA. Also, EA produced Rock Band, so they understand the ‘soul of rock.’”

More through the link. Nothing’s known of the game so far other than it will release on PC, Wii, PS3 and 360.

Hot shit. EA just announced that Grasshopper’s Shinji Mikami and Suda51 are working on a new horror game for the publisher, to release on PC, Wii, PS3 and 360.

The deal was brokered by CAA, in conjunction with Q Entertainment who will be working with he developer and EA Partners on the project.

“Grasshopper Manufacture is excited to work with EA Partners to bring our new title to gamers around the world,” said Grasshopper boss Goichi Suda. “They are a great partner who shares our commitment to quality and innovation while respecting our independence as a studio, which is very empowering.”

No date. Press release after the link.

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