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Added by Jeff on Aug. 14, 2008 14 comments
The EA Partners program grew a bit today with some announcements courtesy of a media event held at EA's Redwood City headquarters today. The publisher will be working with two more teams on two new games.

Five-One is in full effect!
From the land of smoking at arcades and amazing T-shirts that I'll never fit into comes Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio headed by Suda51 and responsible for games like No More Heroes and Killer7. The game that Grasshopper will do with EA will fall into the action horror genre and already sounds like some kind of crazy all-star team with Suda directing, Resident Evil mastermind Shinji Mikami producing, and Q Entertainment assisting. Suda and Mikami were on-hand at the presentation, but didn't really have much to say beyond the typical "we're happy about this" stuff. The game will be released on the PC, Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3.

The second deal announced is with Epic Games. More specifically, the game will come from People Can Fly, the studio responsible for Painkiller, which Epic picked up in 2007. No details on the game were revealed other than that it will be "an all-new action title." It will come to Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3.

15 Comments

piecat
on Aug. 14, 2008
Anything by Suda51 sounds good to me.

logson
on Aug. 14, 2008
Suda, what fun.

powicewobots
on Aug. 14, 2008
I agree with piecat. Definitely a positive development.

Metal_Gear_Sunny
on Aug. 14, 2008
Thanks for the report!

asian_pride
on Aug. 14, 2008
This is gonna be freakin sweet!! Cant wait for SUDA-51's new project!

GalvanizedNails
on Aug. 14, 2008
rather meh news for me, ill care more after the titles are announced, since im not huge fans of either developer

albedos_shadow
on Aug. 14, 2008
I am terrified of any game Suda 51 and Shinji Mikami can make together.

JerseyDriver
on Aug. 14, 2008
Killer Resident Extend 7 Evil Meteos Heroes?  Sign me up!

kratos
on Aug. 15, 2008
And still people hate EA and love Activison I don't get.

Snapstacle
on Aug. 15, 2008
From the 1up interview people seem have picked up that it's either a high school rivalry story with heart, or a rockabilly UFO-themed Brutal Legend. Which one sounds good? YOU DECIDE.

Rmack
on Aug. 15, 2008
@Snapstacle: If any of that is true, the UFO-themed Brutal Legend sounds like the best kind of existential hell possible.

Scroll
on Aug. 15, 2008
EA Just keep getting more awesome.

halatsinator
on Aug. 15, 2008
If they know what's good for them, it will be Michigan 2.  Or at least Michigan up rezed to PS3 & X360.  Please EA?  Pleeeaaaasssseeeee????!!!

Derios
on Aug. 15, 2008
Dope.

Joevit
on Aug. 15, 2008
No big deal to me.



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