Grasshopper Manufacture and student developers made game slike ELEDiVE, a sliding puzzle game that takes place inside a computer world. You have to fix bugs by using both touch panels and tilt controls to move pieces in the world.

She is the protagonist in Grasshopper Manufacture’s next title after Killer is Dead, which will be published by GungHo Online Entertainment. In the Japanese promotional artwork she says, “Whatcha looking at, commoner?”

Kazuki Morishita, president of GungHo Online Entertainment, conducted a panel at GDC today, titled: “100% Fun: Keeping Players Engaged”.

The acquisition, GungHo stated in a press release this morning, makes Grasshopper their “fourth prominent studio”.

Grasshopper Manufacture, makers of games like Lollipop Chainsaw and No More Heroes, has been acquired by GungHo Online Entertainment.

“I don’t think that packaged games will die out, but Steam has a lot of potential since it works with different hardware,” said Akira Yamaoka, Chief Creative Officer.

While Siliconera was speaking with Chief Creative Officer Akira Yamaoka, we learned Grasshopper Manufacture is developing more social games.

The new company is scheduled to be established in November and will develop titles exclusively for the Mobage platform.

Siliconera learned that as of last month Yasuhiro Wada and Yoshiro Kimura are no longer at Grasshopper Manufacture.

While some video game studios are cutting back staff (or closing), Grasshopper Manufacture is steadily growing.

EB Games and Gamestop have Konami’s enhanced port of No More Heroes listed for a May release.

Way before all of the cock jokes, Shadows of the Damned threw Garcia right into combat. The level opened in an area enveloped by darkness. Monsters lunged towards Garcia, but under the cover of darkness these undead creatures were invulnerable.

A new trailer of Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami’s upcoming demon-shooter.

EA and Grasshopper confirmed the game’s release date at a press conference a little while ago.