Grasshopper Manufacture hasn’t finished development on their next game, the assassin themed Killer Is Dead, but the company has already started production on yet another action game, scheduled to ship sometime after Killer Is Dead launches.
Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio behind divisive cult favorites like Killer7, No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned, and the upcoming Killer Is Dead, has been acquired by publisher GungHo Online entertainment, the company announced today.
Once upon a time, Grasshopper Manufacture made bizarre, experimental games like Killer7 and Flower, Sun, and Rain that helped the studio cultivate an auteur status and a cult following of dedicated fans who wanted something different. Of course, none of those games were particularly profitable, but …
Depending on who you ask, Grasshopper Manufacture head Goichi Suda (better known as Suda51,) is either an auteur worthy of celebration or simply a hack. I’m personally more inclined to agree with the former opinion; I enjoyed Killer 7’s bizarre (yet meaningful) story, and I loved …
Western gamers will be offered the next No More Heroes game, Heroes Paradise, later this year. The game will be available exclusively for the PlayStation 3 console and only in Europe and North America and will support Sony’s new motion sensing gaming system for the PS3 …
