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#lollipopchainsaw Suda51's upcoming mash-up of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie version, mind you) and grindhouse horror flicks just scored some scary-sweet box art that Warner Bros. Games is sharing with the world. More »

#lollipopchainsaw What you've got to love about Suda51 is the way his avid embrace of junk culture and grindhouse aesthetic informs everything he does. The buckets of gore in all of his games, the lucha libre wrestling mask he used to do interviews in and the foul-mouthed, hormone-plagued tension in No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned make them all more idiosyncratic than most other games out there. The newest trailer for his latest game, the PlayStation 3 and box 360's Lollipop Chainsaw, puts all that on display again. You'll get to wave your pom poms in March of next year. More »

When a video game trailer starts with a mohawked guy getting cut clean down the middle of his body, and surviving, you know it's a Suda 51 work. And from both of those facts, you can expect the rest of the trailer to be a weird experience, which this Lollipop Chainsaw clip certainly is.

For example, in one scene, Juliet cuts a zombie's head off in the gym, causing the undead head to fly into the basketball hoop. That's the kind of thing WB is calling "total awesomeness" -- we think we'd want that kind of praise too if we'd managed to pull off a stunt like that.

Suda51 is one of those names in video games. The developer behind killer7 and No More Heroes, Suda51's games are known for being out there, and so is he. Now, with his latest game -- Lollipop Chainsaw, a third-person zombie slayer starring an 18-year-old scantily clad cheerleader -- shambling ever closer, IGN grabbed the mastermind to see what this rainbow-spurting title is all about...

Buffy the No More Heroes Zombie Slayer. That's the best way to sum up Lollipop Chainsaw at first glance. Featuring a Lichtenstein-inspired pop art HUD and over-the-top humor drawn from the Suda 51 vein, the game revels in the expected brutality of a zombie outbreak, but adds a dash of the unexpected with rainbows and sparkles following finishing moves and combos.

Developed by Suda 51's Grasshopper Manufacture, the cult name-dropping doesn't stop there. Writer and director James Gunn (Dawn of the Dead, Tromeo and Juliet, Slither) created the script, while Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill, Shadows of the Damned) is handling music -- but none of his work is featured in the current demo.

Yamaoka said during our Gamescom presentation, "This game will be crazier than it is now." A terrifying thought, since the game already has the crazy dialed to 11.

#lollipopchainsaw Juliet Starling is a dangerous high school girl in trouble. She's the star of Lollipop Chainsaw, the rainbow-bright zombie game and maybe the first to employ foul language as a physical weapon. More »

Lollipop Chainsaw, famed developer Suda 51's latest endeavor, immediately invokes Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad. Both are based on the concept of scantily clad girls slicing and dicing their way through zombies. But Onechanbara ended up being a repetitive button masher relying on a male fantasy ...

#speakuponkotaku In this back to school edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Paradox me wants to know what the big deal is about a scantily-clad high school cheerleader flashing her panties while taking out zombies with a chainsaw. More »

#lollipopchainsaw Lollipop Chainsaw is the upcoming title from Goichi Suda's Grasshopper Manufacture and Hollywood's James Gunn. This is the game's debut trailer. More »

Germany's Gamescom show has brought us this debut trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw, a new title in the works from developer Goichi "Suda51" Suda's Grasshopper Manufacture. As you can tell from the (scandalous!) footage after the break, the game's about a cheerleader named Juliet who just happens to also be a slayer of zombies, with a chainsaw as her weapon of choice.

The official site lists the location as "San Romero High School," and since American horror/comedy director James Gunn is also along for the ride, you can probably expect plenty of sly references like that one in the game. Lollipop Chainsaw is targeting a 2012 release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Just the other day the world learned of Lollipop Chainsaw -- a zombie killin' game from Suda 51, the developer of No More Heroes -- and now we have our first look at it. Check out this GameSpot trailer featuring scantily clad cheerleader Julliet Starling decimating zombie after zombie...

#lollipopchainsaw Lollipop Chainsaw, the up-and-coming zombie killing cheerleader game, is being designed by Japanese game developer Grasshopper Manufacture of No More Heroes fame. It's being written by a guy from St. Louis. More »

Burbank, Calif. - Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and KADOKAWA GAMES today announce a new partnership to bring Lollipop Chainsaw to gamers around the world in 2012 on the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will be publishing the game outside of all Asian territories...

Grasshopper Manufacture's cheerleader-versus-zombie action game, Lollipop Chainsaw, will be released outside of Japan in 2012, thanks to Warner Bros. Interactive. The publisher announced a new partnership with Lollipop's Japanese publisher, Kadokawa Games. That seems like a good match -- both companies are media conglomerates who have only recently expanded into games.

Warner is using those media connections to bring in some Hollywood talent: writer/director James Gunn (Slither, Dawn of the Dead) will "bring his cult humor and edgy storytelling to Lollipop Chainsaw." Considering that the Suda 51 game already appears to be 100% cult humor ... that's a lot of cult humor.

If WB is putting this much effort and cash into the writing, it seems possible that the company could go so far as to market the game, something that didn't fully happen with Grasshopper's last game.

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Famed head of Grasshopper Manufacture, Suda 51, has detailed his latest project Lollipop Chainsaw to Japanese gaming mag Famitsu...