Grasshopper Manufacture has joined up with Japanese social gaming company DeNA to create social mobile games. The newly announced joint venture will make games for Japan's Mobage platform. The new team has been named the Grasshopper Social Network Service.
"Our new venture with DeNA will allow us to explore creative ways to bring Grasshopper Manufacture’s universe to a new world of players," Goichi Suda, CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture said. "Mobage’s world-class entertainment network and the power of social mobile games will unlock new types of experiences for our fans."
If the DeNA name sounds familiar, it might be that you heard that they're working with Square Enix on the first Final Fantasy social game.
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9:15 AM on 11.01.2011 | 
I know they're doing the ff game but have they produced any games yet ? I can't remember either of them.
1: your name is a pain to type
2: Grasshopper did No More Heroes, Killer7, Shadow of the Damned, and is working on Lollipop Chainsaw. I don't know anything about DeNA.
This is nothing new guys, they are working on publishing Sine Mora, Diabolical Pitch, Lollipop Chainsaw, a very possible No More Heroes 3, Black Knight Sword, and a bunch others I missed for sure at the same time.
I do not think of Grasshopper Manufacture as this tiny developer house with only one or two guys doing stuff; I think of them more like the early days of Capcom where their talent just started to grow exponentially and you know the rest of the story. It's a wonderful time for Suda and his team.