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 based mostly 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” based mostly 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 assist”.
In line with Nada, the brand new collaboration between itself and Dragami goals to broaden Lollipop Chainsaw by way of “multifaceted tasks and cross-industry collaborations”, so presumably, it is not simply new video games the 2 are engaged on.
Dragami CEO Shohei Sato says the brand new tasks will “keep it up the spirit and allure 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 end in a “big selection of recent tasks”, which, once more, signifies that we’re not simply in for a Lollipop Chainsaw sequel. I might be stunned if there is not some type of anime collection or streaming present within the works, in addition to a by-product or two.
For those who’re not conversant in Lollipop Chainsaw, it is a hack-and-slash motion recreation that was initially launched manner again within the mists of 2012 for seventh-gen machines. The unique recreation was the results of a collaboration between Killer7’s Suda51 and James Gunn, who’s at the moment helming the newest 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, more likely to follow the builders’ intentions of constructing the brand new model “as shut as attainable” to the unique.
In any case, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is out there proper now for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Swap (in addition to Swap 2 by way of backwards compatibility).
