Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP developer Dragami Video games has introduced it is signed an settlement with Taiwanese “IP funding and improvement” 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 might be launched as a collaboration between Nada and Dragami, though the corporate stops in need of saying precisely what these tasks might be.
Nada does, nevertheless, say that “cumulative gross sales” of Lollipop Chainsaw have reached 1.5 million. That determine presumably consists of each the unique Lollipop Chainsaw and final yr’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 “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 on the spirit and appeal of the unique whereas bringing contemporary 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 “wide selection of recent tasks”, which, once more, signifies that we’re not simply in for a Lollipop Chainsaw sequel. I might be shocked if there is not some type of anime collection or streaming present within the works, in addition to a derivative or two.
If you happen to’re not acquainted with Lollipop Chainsaw, it is a hack-and-slash motion recreation that was initially launched means 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 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 stick with 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 through backwards compatibility).
