This private event was held on September 14, 2011 at OPERA in Roppongi, Tokyo. It was hosted by SUDA51 and further attended by Digital Reality CEO Andrés Peller, GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE COO Delatrope Henry, DeNA director Kenji Kobayashi, Akira Yamaoka, and head of Microsoft Game Studios Japan Richard Newman.
The event was something of a warm-up for GRASSHOPPER‘s presence at Tokyo Game Show the next day, with playable builds of DIABOLICAL Pitch and Shadows of the DAMNED exhibited here before their public unveiling at Tokyo Game Show. SUDA51 teased eight announcements at the event, which included an outline reel for Shadows of the DAMNED, confirmation of booths for Shadows of the DAMNED, 3nd Impact, LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW, SUDA51’S SDATCHER, and DIABOLICAL Pitch at Tokyo Game Show, and the announcements of SINE MORA, BLACK KNIGHT SWORD, フロッグミニッツ, ゾンビvs人間, and エイリアンバスターズ. The final name for DIABOLICAL Pitch was also revealed at the event, before which it was temporarily called codename D.
