Diabolical Pitch

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Diabolical Pitch
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Developer(s) Grasshopper Manufacture
Publisher(s) Microsoft Studios
Producer(s) Goichi Suda
Engine Unreal Engine 3
Platform(s) Xbox 360
ReleaseApril 4, 2012
Genre(s) Action, sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Diabolical Pitch [lower-alpha 1] is a baseball action video game from Grasshopper Manufacture and Suda51 for the Xbox 360 Kinect. [1] [2] [3] It was announced at Microsoft's 2011 TGS conference [4] and was initially scheduled for release at the end of 2011, [5] but slipped to early April 2012. [6]

Contents

Reception

Diabolical Pitch received mixed reviews from critics upon release. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 56/100 based on 24 reviews. [7]

Notes

  1. Japanese: ディアボリカル・ピッチ, Hepburn: Diaborikaru Pitchi

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