Netease Games is now owner of Grasshopper Manufacture

After eight years under the Gungho Online Entertainment pavilion, the Grasshopper Manufacture studio changes air. Far from continuing to independent adventure with its only economies, as we still thought yesterday by listening to the plans of Gôichi Suda for the next 10 years, the Killer7 studio and No More Heroes agreed to join Netease Games.

The signature even took place on May 31, in the wake of the 23rd anniversary of the studio, which has as a reminder lost the majority of its workforce to meet with some 25 employees. By joining the Chinese Clease Richissime, Grasshopper, however, nourish new ambitions, especially since the publisher promises to let the studio work in total creative freedom, just helping to grow economically. Grasshopper Manufacture, which is now recruiting to strengthen, so does not change the style and will benefit the artistic and technical support of the Netease team.

Netease Games will be responsible for advising us on our business planning activities and provide sufficient funding for the development of games.

Gôichi Suda

We now have a unique opportunity to rethink Games development and the organizational structure of Grasshopper Manufacture. When we discussed the idea of ​​developing together unique console games, we have resonated. After many reflections, We unanimously decided to meet in the long term through more in-depth cooperation in order to create more good content for players , explains Suda51, which could be the second Japanese personality of renown to join NetEase Games after Toshihiri Nagoshi, even if Sega s veteran has yet confirmed nothing.

Note that Grasshopper does not earn the license No More Heroes in its suitcases, which is the property of Marvelous. Suda had already confirmed that the recent No More Heroes 3 would mark the end of Travis Touchdown adventures.

for Netease, the seduction operation will go through Japan

Known for Fantasy Westward Journey , Onmyoji , Knives Out , Identity V or more recently Naraka BladePoint , Diablo Immortal , The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War and Harry Potter: Magic Awakened , Netease Games is for the moment much more famous in China than in the rest of the world, but settles little by little in the global landscape multiplatform .

Founded in 2007, the company has invested in Bungie, Quantic Dream and Behavior Interactive, founded the Japanese Ouka studio to work on console games and would be about to recruit Toshihiri Nagoshi from more than 30 years spent at Sega. In 2020, NetEase recorded a turnover of 9.7 billion euros, from 72% of its mobile games.

Nesease wishes to extend its invitation to brilliant Japanese game creators and around the world. Netease Games is committed to respecting the concepts to release the potential of creators and offer quality interactive entertainment experiences. We hope to give ways to More exceptional designers and creating more good games , can we read in the netease release.