Out of Grasshopper Manufacture's recent Foreign Video Game Unlawful Assembly 2K8 event comes word of another original PlayStation title that's scheduled for a PlayStation network appearance. The game is The Silver Case, an early release from No More Heroes creator Suda51.

1UP's Yoshi Sato reports that in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, Goichi Suda, more famously known as Suda 51, president of Grasshopper Manufacture, revealed that the mysterious Project S that he and Hideo Kojima are working on will be a series of projects based on Hideo Kojima's classic adventure game Snatcher.

Ah, so that's why it's "S."

The first project will be a radio drama written by Suda 51. Interestingly, Suda 51 will also be one of the drama's voice actors. He comments that he can't talk about the details surrounding the project at the moment (as expected) but he does say that he thinks he will call it Snatchers. Ah, plural means sequel, yes?

Still no info on what other formats that projects in Project S will take, but given the names attached to the project we all hope that a videogame is included among them.

Speaking to Japanese gaming news entity, Famitsu, Shinji Mikami, made popular due to his creative influence over hits like Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Devil May Cry, admitted that he has started actual development on possible multiple game projects. However, it was said that we shouldn't expect anything from him until after 2008.

IGN reports that Mikami is continuing work with Grasshopper Interactive's Suda 51, the one responsible for the upcoming No More Heroes on the Wii, and Mikami expects to be able to show something to gamers this coming summer.

Mikami notes that unlike old-school developers who have moved on to the production side of games, he plans to mainly be a game director - although he has already had experience being a producer.

Mikami is currently an external board member of SEEDS, an Osaka development company formed by a group of former developers from Capcom, and in general his future titles will carry the SEEDS branding. His games will be published by an actual publisher - not necessarily Capcom. The game creator has formed a private development studio last year, prior to the fading of Clover Studios, called Straight Story.

This year's GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo and Conference, a three-day affair that showcases the latest in games, hobbies, and electronic entertainment, will be kicking off tomorrow in Perth (that's in Australia, by the way). The expo part will last the whole three days, while the conference will be held on March 30 and 31.

The featured speaker for the GO3 conference is Hideo Kojima, the man behind the Metal Gear series. Kojima's session is scheduled for March 31 at 2:30 in the afternoon and will focus on the correlations between the evolution of technology and changes in game design.

Other speakers include Suda 51 of Grasshopper Manufacture and Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Epic Games' Rod Ferguson will also be on hand to talk about Gears of War and how Epic handles launching a new videogame franchise. You can check out a full list of speakers as well as the schedule by clicking on the "read" link below.

Goichi "Suda 51" Suda, the main man behind independent videogame studio Grasshopper Manufacture, is worried. "I'm 39 years old now," he confides during an interview with GameVideos. "Now, in Japan, there are no young, twenty-something year-old stars in our industry. That worries me. So you've only got older game creators. If we don't do something to bring the young guns into the fold, our industry will fail."

While Suda 51 concedes that big-budget titles like Gears of War and Resistance: Fall of Man ("the Hollywood blockbusters of the industry," says Suda 51) are an important part of the market, he also believes that indie games with small budgets are just as vital.

"The industry needs independent games with small budgets," said Suda 51. "The industry needs to foster an environment where indie developers can make games that cost less without threatening the developer's very existence."

During the interview, Suda 51 also revealed his hopes that Sony would release the graphics engine that powers the PlayStation Home as middleware. "If Sony allows outside developers to make games based on that, I think it would be really beneficial to the industry. Developers like us could make more PS3 titles using that engine and at a smaller budget. If Sony chooses to do that I'd be very excited."

Of course, the indie developer also talked a bit about Grasshopper Manufacture's upcoming title for Nintendo's next gen Wii videogame console. Talking about the gameplay system in No More Heroes, Suda 51 revealed a few basic moves that players should learn.

"The basic slash is on the A button on the Wii remote, and you can do a finishing move by doing a slash motion with the Wii remote." And then, in Suda's own words, "there goes the enemy's head."

You can check out the full video interview below.