• EA

    EA Partners: DeMartini on the 'Renaissance'

    Gamasutra has a nice five page interview up with David DeMartini of EA Partners, the Electronic Arts division that has released games like Rock Band, Crysis, The Orange Box, and, uh, Hellgate: London in the past year. It's a pretty wide ranging chat, from discussions of the challenges the come with working with Japanese studios, to acquiring new titles, to the relative disaster of Hellgate: More »

    2:40 PM on Sun Aug 24 2008
    By Maggie Greene
    1,662 views, 9 comments

    Latest by Niric: @adocious: Speak for yourself. I enjoyed Hellgate. Though it didn't blow me away and it had faults - it was still more »

  • famitsu

    Yes, Have A Look Or Two At Fatal Frame IV

    This week's Famitsu has a look at the Nintendo published surivival horror Zero ~Tsukihami no Kamen~ AKA Fatal Frame IV. The Wii game is being directed by Tecmo's Makoto Shibata and Grasshopper's Goichi Suda. While Shibata worked on the previous Fatal Frame games, Suda was roped in to work on Fatal Frame IV. Hit the jump for another look at the game. More »

    2:00 AM on Wed May 28 2008
    By Brian Ashcraft
    8,330 views, 73 comments

    Latest by questworld: The Wii already gets the shaft when it comes to supposedly AAA games coming out now and in the future. more »

  • no more heroes

    No More Heroes Does OK In America (Probably Better In Europe)

    Marvellous Interactive have published some worldwide shipping/sales figures for Suda's No More Heroes. In Japan, homeland of all parties involved? It's done terribly. Only 40,000 copies have shipped since launch. Ouch. How about America, then? Little better: they've shipped around 200,000 copies, and have sold just over 100,000 since launch. Not bad! Finally, however, they announce some European numbers. And while the game's not even out there yet (it's shipping late Feb/early March across all PAL territories), they're expecting to sell 160,000 units across the continent at launch. Could something finally be coming up roses for Suda? Let's hope so!
    NO MORE HEROES打上げ [Marvellous, via Alkaline @ NeoGAF]

    6:20 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
    By Luke Plunkett
    8,326 views, 161 comments

    Latest by Highlar: I'd have to agree. I'm up to 7th rank now, and the voice acting so far has been great. I wish more »

  • no more marios

    Suda Wants To Make Mario With Guns

    Grasshopper's Goichi Suda (51) is pretty comfortable making violent games, like bloody light saber fest No More Heroes (a slap in the face to most fiction/reality when burns tend to cauterize wounds, but we digress). So he was recently asked by Nintendo Official Magazine UK if he'd consider making titles for a younger crowd. And that's when his eyes turned red and pupils the darkest black of night... More »

    12:00 PM on Wed Feb 13 2008
    By Mark Wilson
    12,950 views, 128 comments

    Latest by inphanta: Suda, I think you're great, but this is the dumbest fucking thing you have ever said. Yes, guns would work great more »

  • xbox 360

    Suda Wants to Make Xbox 360 Games For Your American Love

    Goichi Suda is known for his quirky, cel shaded games like Killer 7 and No More Heroes — both appearing on Japanese hardware. But Suda's ready to expand his game developer wings and try something different. Says Suda:

    This originality will always remain, but I also want us to challenge ourselves by working at making realistic visuals as well. The next title will have a very different style, but keep the Grasshopper feeling at the same time... The Xbox 360. Definitely, I want to develop on this platform. It is really easy to work with. It is also quite popular outside Japan on markets that I would like to aim at. Specifically, I think of the American market as the Major League — I would like to go there and be successful.

    We're sure that'd make some American Xbox 360 owners very, very happy.
    Suda51 Interview [Next Generation]

    6:40 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
    By Brian Ashcraft
    3,220 views, 105 comments

    Latest by psychobaka: There was another Japanese game developer that really liked the 360 because he knew that his games would be played more »

  • reviews

    Frankenreview - No More Heroes (Wii)

    There's no doubt about it—the Wii is in dire need of some decent third party titles. That's why we find director SUDA-51's/Grasshopper Manufacture's No More Heroes so intriguing. A sort of Grand Theft Auto meets Killer7 meets light sabers, the game promised to bring action, humor and style to the Wii...without Mario or his friends.

    So what did the critics think? Hit the jump for our Frankenreview to find out: not quite every review, but probably more than you're going to read anyway. More »

    12:00 PM on Thu Jan 24 2008
    By Mark Wilson
    28,811 views, 179 comments

    Latest by shubleedsblue: i need to play this game more »

  • goichi suda

    "Third Party Wii Games Aren't Selling"

    No More Heroes creator Goichi Suda says third party Wii games aren't selling. He should know! Even though it faired well critically, nobody in Japan bought his game. (Well, not nobody.) What does Suda think of developing for the Wii? This:

    Whilst the sales weren't as high as I hoped, other titles for Wii aren't selling so well either. Only Nintendo titles are doing well. This isn't just because of the current situation in Japan, as this is happening outside Japan... Actually I was very surprised about the reality about Wii, because before I was making this game, I wasn't expecting that Wii would be a console targeted only for non-gamers. I expected more games for hardcore gamers. The reality is different to what I expected.

    Does that means the No More Heroes sequel will be on a "hardcore" consoles — say, the Xbox 360 or PS3?
    Third Party Wii Games Aren't Selling [CVG via Games Radar]

    10:00 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
    By Brian Ashcraft
    8,570 views, 261 comments

    Latest by XAnthonyX: Yeah.. They don't do well because Nintendo has such a good reputation and advertise them really well. I think.. haha. more »

  • instructions

    No More Heroes Manual Looks Better Than Some Games

    Who out there reads instruction manuals? Show of hands. None? That's what we thought. Video game manuals are generally:

    1. Boring
    2. Not super clear
    3. Nor concise
    4. Dull
    5. Synonym of dull

    But this No More Heroes manual is modeled after a comic book and looks to lack Wiimote sketches altogether. Why not take a risk on the manual? It's not like you are going to disappoint anyone if the idea's a miss. Of course, if it is fantastic, chances are that no one will notice then, either.

    Marvelous! No More Heroes has a comic book manual     [siliconera]

    12:00 PM on Fri Dec 21 2007
    By Mark Wilson
    8,459 views, 82 comments

    Latest by DARK DVNT; DARKDVNT [Xfire/Yahoo/Aim] ;Plz visit my website, k, thx.: I will notice now, I always give a glance at the manual, but this, this is far from the norm, more »

  • blood

    No More Heroes Censorship Explained...Kinda

    No More Heroes was supposed to be a gorefest in Europe and the US. But to every Australian Kotaku writer's surprise, the game will have the blood censored for its Europe release. In the theme of pretending we care about markets outside the US, we thought that we should let you know that Grasshopper CEO 'Suda 51' and Marvelous's Yashiro Wada made a joint statement today on the matter that should clear things up a bit:

    First, let me say how honoured I am that everyone in Europe is expecting No More Heroes....The sales point of this game is action. Both I and Wada san have concentrated on making the best possible action game for the Nintendo Wii. We have chosen to release in Europe the same version as has shipped in Japan considering the broadly growing Wii market.
    In other words, everyone thinks this will be a more lucrative plan. I prefer the subtlety of ash fountains to spurting blood anyway.

    Studio boss chose to censor Euro No More Heroes [cvg]

    12:00 PM on Wed Dec 12 2007
    By Mark Wilson
    4,758 views, 85 comments

    Latest by Deaf Mute: @L_K_M: If you are going to have blood, why not have it be red? more »

  • clips

    No More Heroes' Sinister Villain Gets...Sinister

    "I just need you to look the other way for a second."
    "A second?"
    "Yes, just a split second."

    I love few things more than wacky villains who are unnaturally tolerated by fearless protagonists. This may be the longest No More Heroes clip we've ever seen (probably because it was cut by GameTrailers). Seriously, this is like the Lawrence of Arabia of No More Heroes teasers. They should have added a .5 second intermission or something.

    1:20 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
    By Mark Wilson
    4,646 views, 89 comments