{"id":898886,"date":"2026-09-17T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898886\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:12:09","slug":"lollipop-chainsaw-2-back2back-announced-for-ps5-update-gameplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898886\/","title":{"rendered":"Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back announced for PS5 [Update: Gameplay]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Publishers Dragami Games<\/a> and Nada Holdings<\/a>, and developer JP Universe<\/a> have announced<\/a> Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back<\/a> for PlayStation 5<\/a>. It will launch in 2027. It is also playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which runs from September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. <\/p>\n

The game\u2019s staff includes Hajime Tabata, who directed Final Fantasy<\/a> XV, as well as Masahiro Yuki, who co-produced and wrote the scenario for the original Lollipop Chainsaw, and NekoshowguN, who handled the main character concept art for the original.<\/p>\n

Here is an overview of the game, via Dragami Games:<\/p>\n

The pop and cute high school zombie hunter who took the world by storm is back!<\/p>\n

Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back is an all-new title in the Lollipop Chainsaw series.<\/p>\n

Juliet returns, in a brand-new outfit and with even more power, to a rebuilt San Romero, now transformed into \u201cJaredwood,\u201d a sprawling metropolis built around the film industry. When a mysterious director traps her inside his twisted zombie movie, Juliet must fight alongside her allies, uncover the conspiracy behind the chaos, and stop a new threat posed by the Corrupted Realm zombies.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more information ahead of its planned 2027 release.<\/p>\n

To celebrate the announcement, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP<\/a> is currently on sale for up to 45 percent off across digital storefronts. The Xbox Series<\/a> and Xbox One<\/a> sale will run until October 15, while the Steam sale will run until September 30. Sales for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4<\/a>, Switch 2<\/a>, Switch<\/a>, and GOG are planned to begin later.<\/p>\n

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View the first screenshots at the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Screenshots<\/p>\n

Update 9:00 p.m.: Watch eight minutes of gameplay below.<\/p>\n

Gameplay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Publishers Dragami Games and Nada Holdings, and developer JP Universe have announced Lollipop Chainsaw 2 Back2Back for PlayStation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-898886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}