Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP developer Dragami Video games has introduced it is signed an settlement with Taiwanese “IP funding and growth” firm Nada Holdings to develop new tasks primarily based on the aforementioned hack-and-slash property.
In an announcement on the official Nada Holdings web site, the corporate says “a number of new tasks” primarily based on Lollipop Chainsaw will likely be launched as a collaboration between Nada and Dragami, though the corporate stops wanting saying precisely what these tasks will likely be.
Nada does, nonetheless, say that “cumulative gross sales” of Lollipop Chainsaw have reached 1.5 million. That determine presumably contains each the unique Lollipop Chainsaw and final 12 months’s remaster, because the firm makes reference to “13 years of continued fan help”.
In line with Nada, the brand new collaboration between itself and Dragami goals to increase Lollipop Chainsaw via “multifaceted tasks and cross-industry collaborations”, so presumably, it isn’t simply new video games the 2 are engaged on.
Dragami CEO Shohei Sato says the brand new tasks will “stick with it the spirit and attraction of the unique whereas bringing recent worth to the franchise”, whereas Nada Holdings chairman Joe Teng says his firm will “dedicate itself wholeheartedly to preserving the spirit of the unique work and assembly the expectations of its followers”.
Teng additionally says the collaboration will lead to a “big selection of latest tasks”, which, once more, signifies that we’re not simply in for a Lollipop Chainsaw sequel. I would be shocked if there is not some form of anime collection or streaming present within the works, in addition to a derivative or two.
In the event you’re not conversant in Lollipop Chainsaw, it is a hack-and-slash motion sport that was initially launched method again within the mists of 2012 for seventh-gen machines. The unique sport was the results of a collaboration between Killer7’s Suda51 and James Gunn, who’s at present helming the most recent Superman film.
In 2022, a remake of Lollipop Chainsaw was introduced, however following requests from followers, the remake was subsequently scaled again to a remaster, prone to follow the builders’ intentions of creating the brand new model “as shut as doable” to the unique.
In any case, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is accessible proper now for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Change (in addition to Change 2 by way of backwards compatibility).
