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Bayonetta 2 Reportedly Cancelled Due to Sega’s Financial Problems

Platinum Games has apparently stopped working on a sequel to Bayonetta, as Sega’s financial problems have caused a decrease in funding for the new hack and slash game. Bayonetta delivered a pretty intense experience back in 2010, when it came out for the PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms. Since then, developer Plati...

2 May 2012
20:21 GMT

Bayonetta Appears in Anarchy Reigns as Pre-Order Bonus

Sega has just unveiled a pretty interesting pre-order incentive for its upcoming Anarchy Reigns brawler, offering the sultry Bayonetta as a bonus character. Bayonetta was a very impressive game that delivered a thoroughly acrobatic hack and slash experience and the main character, a witch with a bodysuit made of her...

23 March 2012
04:49 GMT

Devil May Cry Combat Will Not Compete with Bayonetta

The new Devil May Cry, created by developer Ninja Theory and publisher Capcom, has created some pretty strong reactions from the fan community but the main developer working on the game says that the game should be judged on its own terms and not via comparison with other games. Speaking to CVG about the Devil May C...

22 March 2012
17:31 GMT

New Devil May Cry Will Try to Top Bayonetta Spectacle

Developer at Capcom have said that one of their aims with the new, rebooted Devil May Cry video game is to deliver a better action title than Bayonetta, the surprise hit that developer Platinum Games and publisher SEGA launched in late 2009 in Japan.Alex Jones, who is a producer at Capcom United States working on the...

6 January 2012
04:51 GMT

Platinum Games Leader Defends New Look and Gameplay for Metal Gear Rising

The newly renamed Metal Gear Rising might have disappointed some long term series fans with its new look and more action oriented gameplay but one leading developer working on it says that players should wait for more solid information before making up their minds on it.Atsushi Inaba, who is the executive producer wo...

14 December 2011
20:01 GMT

Bayonetta Designer Moves to Soul Calibur V

Video game publisher and developer Namco Bandai has brought Mari Shimazaki, who served as the designer of the Bayonetta character in the video game with the same name, on board the development team working on Soul Calibur V, giving him the task of creating the guest characters for the next installment in the fighting...

22 November 2011
20:21 GMT

A Gamer's Week: July 8

It has not been a very busy week in the world of gaming and that has enabled us here at Softpedia to dedicate some time to simulating the first time of Le Tour de France using Pro Cycling Manager 2011 for a series of Game Diaries, at the same time as the real world competition is taking place. We have also created a...

10 July 2011
06:01 GMT

Bayonetta

Without sounding ridiculously enthusiastic about the game, I’ll start off by saying that Sega made a wise choice when they decided to publish the work done by Platinum Games. Bayonetta is one of the few Xbox 360 action games that can keep you glued to the controller because of both its sexy body and the total...

4 July 2011
14:31 GMT

Bayonetta and Vanquish Studio Wants to Continue Sega Partnership

Platinum Games, the studio behind hit titles like MadWorld, Infinite Space, Bayonetta and the most recent Vanquish, has revealed that it wants to continue the partnership it had up until now with Sega.Platinum Games is currently one of the most successful independent Japanese game developerment studios, being respons...

25 October 2010
02:41 GMT

Vanquish Difficulty Levels Revealed

Shinji Mikami, legendary game designer and the head of Platinum Games, has revealed the difficulty settings for his upcoming cover-based third person shooter entitled Vanquish. They are Casual Automatic, Casual, Normal, Hard and God Hard. Mikami also wrote in blog post on the official site of the game that he was su...

29 July 2010
17:01 GMT

SEGA Announces Profit, Bayonetta Sales

SEGA has announced that overall revenue for the company went down by 7.7% for the nine months of 2009, which ended on December 31 compared to the same period in 2008.The good news is that despite the slowing sales, SEGA has managed to turn a profit, something not attained in the final nine months of 2008. Income is n...

10 February 2010
02:57 GMT

Bayonetta Places Fifth on Debut

The New Year seems a lot like the last so far, judging by the latest United Kingdom videogame chart. Modern Warfare 2, the first person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, the biggest videogame of 2009, is still in first spot and will probably not relinquish it before the release of Mass E...

14 January 2010
13:01 GMT

Sega Is Working on a Patch to Fix Bayonetta's Loading Time Issues on the PS3

The PlayStation 3 version of Bayonetta really got shafted, especially compared with the Xbox 360 one. On Sony's console, the game suffered from a lot of issues, including choppy framerates, lesser graphics and, not to be cast aside, the prolonged loading times. As it has been mentioned by a dedicated fan of the ...

18 November 2009
03:19 GMT

Bayonetta Leads the Charts, PSP Debuts

There are big things going on when it comes to both the hardware and the software markets in Japan. The PSP Go, the new handheld from Sony, has seen its first sales numbers released, and Bayonetta has managed to slay the Pokemon series and go to the top in the videogame chart.The best selling system in Japan continue...

9 November 2009
03:53 GMT

Bayonetta Offers a Demo of Her Abilities

The action-adventure Devil May Cry series is a well-known franchise, with many other components besides the video games. If any of you ever wanted to slash, chop, pierce or shoot your foes in a similar style but with a more feminine touch, then Bayonetta is where you'll find your answer. A project regarded with ...

2 October 2009
06:27 GMT

Bayonetta Is Set to Be Region Locked

SEGA of Europe has told journalists at the Bayonetta Gamescom demo that it plans for the videogame to be region locked when it is released in Japan this October. The title has been given a January 2010 date for Europe and for the United States.Apparently, it will not be playable outside of Japan no matter whether gam...

27 August 2009
03:46 GMT

Translation Problems Delayed Sega's Bayonetta

Sega is one of the most respected names in gaming, being active in the industry for a huge amount of time, ever since the arcade days. The Japanese company also owns a lot of high-quality franchises for which it develops new iterations quite often, like Sonic for example. But one new property that Sega has been heav...

19 August 2009
03:21 GMT

Bayonetta Also Gets Delayed to 2010

During the winter of 2008, a lot of high-quality video games appeared. Some of them were sequels, while others were completely new properties that seemed extremely interesting to a lot of people and had quite the hype built up around them. Sadly, a lot of gamers only managed to buy sequels to already established fra...

20 July 2009
11:01 GMT

Bayonetta Has Evolved from Devil May Cry, Says Producer

Action games, predominantly hack and slash ones, have the same basic structure and follow the same recipe that has been carved in stone by Capcom's Devil May Cry franchise. The protagonist has some sort of superhuman strength that he or she must put to good use in order to defeat various kinds of monsters and th...

13 April 2009
11:01 GMT

Sega Partners with Platinum Games, Four Titles Announced

Platinum Games and Sega have announced a partnership that will have as a result the creation of four exclusive IPs for Sega. Even more, three of them have already been detailed and, as expected from the creators of Okami, they seem to be really promising titles. Infinite Line, Bayonetta and Madworld are the first tit...

16 May 2008
13:06 GMT


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