Suda51 Focusing on “AA” Unreal Engine 5 Projects, Meetings with Marvel Have Happened

Late last year we received the rather surprising news that Grasshopper Manufacture and its iconoclastic leader Suda51 had joined Chinese mega-publisher NetEase Games, but data on what this might mean for the studio's future was somewhat thin. Well, in a new interview for Japanese gaming site Automaton, Suda and other Grasshopper devs revealed a bit more than about where the studio is going now that information technology'southward under the well-funded NetEase umbrella.

Equally nosotros've already heard, Grasshopper is looking to create 3 new IPs over the next 10 years, and the studio is staffing up to practice and then, with plans to become from thirty to lx employees. These games volition be developed using Unreal Engine 5 and the overall goal is to become a "AA" company (that is, somewhere between indie and AAA). Information technology sounds like Suda himself will likely be taking the creative atomic number 82 on most of those new IPs, as following the success of No More Heroes Iii, he intends to stay in the director's chair rather than return to the producer role he occupied for a decade.

Oh, and what about that Deadpool game Suda has teased he wants to make? Well, Suda reveals at that place have been discussions with Marvel Studios, although it'due south unclear how serious the talks were. It sounds like it largely depends on whether Marvel is willing to requite him a holding he'd be interested in working on. Otherwise, the focus will continue to be on original projects.

Grasshopper Manufacture has had an up and down history, simply their almost recent game, No More Heroes III, was a real return to course in my opinion (check out my review hither). I'yard definitely interested to see what might come next.

What do you think? What kind of punk rock crazinesss do y'all hope Suda and friends cook up next?