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Diabolical Pitch review: Field of nightmares

Mike Suszek — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:15:00 EST

You are McAllister, a living legend in baseball, hunched over on the mound while gripping your lifeless throwing arm one moment after throwing a record-breaking out. Next thing you know, you're in a car accident, and wake up at a demented, run-down amusement park called Queen Christine's Dream Land. There, a man in a suit with the head of a cow explains that you can get your arm back to form by throwing your way to the castle at the end of the park -- while wearing a bionic arm.

This is Diabolical Pitch, the latest XBLA title from Grasshopper Manufacture. As odd as it sounds, what's important to note is that this game is dependent on Microsoft's Kinect peripheral, and every throw by McAllister is a real-life throw by you.

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Diabolical Pitch, less diabolical SNK savings on Xbox Live this week

JC Fletcher — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:00:00 EST

This week on Xbox Live is the premiere of Diabolical Pitch for Kinect, and, for when your arm inevitably gets tired, savings on SNK games that use the normal controller. From today through the 9th, King of Fighters '98, 2002, and Sky Stage, Metal Slugs 3 and XX, and Trouble Witches are all 50% off. Rockstar is holding a "Max Payne sale" as well, with 33% savings.

Next week will see the arrival of Fez and a Call of Duty DLC sale. We wonder how the network will handle the combination of those two events.

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Diabolical Pitch crosses home plate April 4

JC Fletcher — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:38:00 EST

April 4 marks the beginning of the Kinect combat baseball season. Major Nelson revealed that Diabolical Pitch, Grasshopper Manufacture's damned freaky Kinect game, will be out on that day.

There's no more new info, as it was just a blurb in a roundup of news from Microsoft's recent press event, but no amount of explanation would make that game make sense anyway.

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Diabolical Pitch trailer winds up, tosses exploding baseball

Richard Mitchell — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:01:00 EST

Not satisfied with hastily captured shaky-cam footage of Diabolical Pitch? We've got just the thing then, as Grasshopper Manufacture has released the official trailer we first saw during its event at TGS. Check out the flaming baseballs and action-packed power poses in the video above.

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Diabolical Pitch gameplay demon-strated at TGS 2011

Richard Mitchell — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:55:00 EST

We haven't yet gotten our hands on Grasshopper's upcoming Kinect throw-em-up, Diabolical Pitch, but that didn't stop us from grabbing some shaky-cam footage of the first trailer and of someone giving the game a whirl at the developer's pre-TGS shindig.

Check out the trailer above. A gameplay demo is all wound up after the break.

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Grasshopper Manufacture's Kinect/XBLA game Diabolical Pitch revealed

JC Fletcher — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:16:00 EST

During a pre-TGS event, "video game band" Grasshopper Manufacture unveiled Diabolical Pitch, the Kinect title first announced last year as "Codename D." And it is absolutely a game about a baseball player pitching and batting balls at oncoming monsters.

Two players are shown at once lobbing baseballs, lifting one another up for health support, and even joining hands in a DBZ-like "fusion" pose for a special attack, against what looked like a vaguely disco-esque baseball field.

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Grasshopper Manufacture registers trademark for 'Diabolical Pitch'

JC Fletcher — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:30:00 EST

During TGS, Microsoft revealed "Codename D" by Grasshopper Manufacture, a Kinect game for XBLA involving ... evil things in an amusement park, and a guy with a magically flaming baseball, if the trailer is any indication. Given the "evil" and "baseball" elements in said trailer, it seems likely that the name "Diabolical Pitch," just trademarked in Japan by GHM, applies to this. Also, the name starts with a D. By the way, if you missed the trailer, you can see it after the break.

If true, that name suggests that there's more to that flaming baseball than just being a weird weapon at hand. Perhaps you actually play the game by pitching virtual baseballs at evil tiger-mask guys?

Gallery: Codename D (Kinect)

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Kinect comes to XBLA, Microsoft Game Studios reveals five Japanese titles

Ludwig Kietzmann — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:10:00 EST

Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture

Microsoft Game Studios unveiled five new Japanese partnerships during its Tokyo Game Show 2010 keynote today, each intended to "provide fun for users throughout the world." Takashi Sensui, general manager of Xbox in Japan, claimed the projects would "define the future of Xbox 360 and Kinect" -- a future that now promises Kinect-enabled Xbox Live Arcade games.

Out of the five new XBLA-exclusive games announced today, three will use Kinect: Haunt, a spooky adventure from Parappa the Rappa's Masaya Matsuura; ~~Project~~ Codename D, a stylish new endeavor from Grasshopper Manufacture's Suda 51; and Project Draco, a Panzer Dragoon-esque flight game from Phantom Dust creator Yukio Futatsugi. These will join third-party Kinect games Child of Eden, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor and Rise of Nightmares in 2011.

Microsoft also revealed Fire-Pro Wrestling from Spike, and a new version of Radiant Silvergun from Treasure (much to the chagrin of eBay profiteers). Both are coming to XBLA in 2011.

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Codename D revealed as Suda 51 Kinect game

Alexander Sliwinski — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:13:00 EST

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No More Heroes and Killer 7 auteur Suda 51 is a busy, busy boy this TGS. During the Microsoft Press Conference the Grasshopper Manufacture head announced the studio is working on a Kinect game entitled Codename D. Mr. 51 stated that the game will not feature guns or swords but will be a core action game. The brief trailer showed a lot of things exploding and a Suda dose of weirdness. The game is scheduled for 2011.

Gallery: Codename D (Kinect)

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