{"id":14056,"date":"2011-09-15T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"grasshopper-manufacture-s-mysterious-codename-d-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14056-grasshopper-manufacture-s-mysterious-codename-d-is","title":{"rendered":"Grasshopper Manufacture\u2019s mysterious \u201cCodename D\u201d is…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The super-mysterious “Codename D” Kinect-powered project from Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture has been officially outed as “Diabolical Pitch” over at the Tokyo Game Show.<\/p>\n

It’s some kind of twisted baseball game. You know, with a “diabolical pitch”. Oh, you crazy Japanese and your funny puns.<\/p>\n

According to a report over on Gamespot<\/a>, you’ll be chucking baseballs at animal mascots, as well as “catching, ducking, jumping, kicking, and swinging a virtual bat”.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure most of that stuff isn’t endorsed by the Major Leagues, but then again, the Major Leagues have probably never had to deal with a full-scale animal mascot rebellion.<\/p>\n

Nothing much else has been announced about it just yet, although it’s apparently expected to launch next year, and supports two players.<\/p>\n

Check out the game in action in the video below. And by “check out the game action”, I mean “check out these two guys looking a bit silly”.<\/p>\n

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Grasshopper Manufacture’s mysterious “Codename D” is…<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now we set the clackers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}