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New Live Action Metal Gear Rising Trailer Shows Raiden’s Past

The development team at Kojima Productions and publisher Konami have launched a new live action trailer for the upcoming Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, showing off yet another Raiden-based flashback which offers an insight into the origins of the character. The trailer is seen as a follow-up to the previous offerin...

19 May 2012
04:22 GMT

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

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Gets ARM Live Action Trailer

The development team at Platinum Games has revealed a new live action teaser trailer for their upcoming Metal Gear Solid Revengeance, which seems to suggest that the character of Solidus will be featured in the new experience. The video shows a group of scientists and doctors who are working Raiden’s arm, tryi...

1 May 2012
04:39 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

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

Shooter and Sequels Stifle Innovation, Says Hideo Kojima

Hideo Kojima, the man behind the well known Metal Gear Solid franchise, has said that one of the big problems with video game design is that sequels and AAA shooters are taking most of the audience and tend to limit innovation.Speaking to the Official PlayStation Magazine the Japanese developer has stated, “It&...

5 January 2012
14:21 GMT

PlayStation 3 Is Lead Platform for Metal Gear Rising

The developers at Platinum Games have confirmed that the PlayStation 3 home gaming console from Sony is the leading platform for the upcoming Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Atsuhi Inaba, who is one of the producers working on the game, replied to a Tweet asking about the base platform for the game by saying PlaySta...

16 December 2011
07:02 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

Kojima Promises Full Stealth Metal Gear Solid Announcement Soon

Fans of the Metal Gear Solid franchise might have been disappointed to see the new direction for Rising, unveiled as part of the new trailer that was shown at the VGA show, but the main developer behind the franchise, Hideo Kojima, assures them that a stealth focused game designed specifically for them will be announ...

14 December 2011
05:50 GMT

New Metal Gear Rising Trailer Shows Action Packed Sequence, Bayonetta Influence

The trailer that publisher Konami delivered for Metal Gear: Rising at the VGA ceremony will probably make a lot of fans cringe and reveals that the developers of Bayonetta, Platinum Games, are now fully in charge of developing the title.The production duties for the new Metal Gear game are still handled by the team l...

12 December 2011
04:20 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

Vanquish

Vanquish is a third person shooter, developed by Platinum Games, under the leadership of Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Amidst the wide array of futurist, cover-based third person shooters, Vanquish stands apart with the promise of high paced action t...

22 November 2010
08:01 GMT

Quick Look: Vanquish

Vanquish is the newest project of Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, coming from the team at Platinum Games and published by Sega.In a futuristic world, a special U.S. soldier is sent together with regular troopers to take down a large Russian threat in Earth's orbit, by using a suit that allows him upgraded s...

16 November 2010
17:21 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

Third Person Shooter Vanquish Will Use Havok Tech

Platinum Games, as the developer, and Havok have announced that the upcoming third person shooter Vanquish will be using the Hacok Physics and Animation middleware to deliver its mix of fast paced action and stylish visuals.The Havok technology is set to be used throughout Vanquish and will be used to deliver “...

7 October 2010
03:23 GMT

Vanquish Demo Coming to PSN and XBLA

SEGA has revealed that a demo of the highly anticipated cover based third person shooter Vanquish will arrive on both the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Marketplace at the end of August and the beginning of September.Vanquish, Shinji Mikami's latest brain-child, is a game that means to revolutionize the c...

24 August 2010
10:25 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

Vanquish Coming Out This October

Vanquish is the latest cover-based third person shooter coming from Platinum Games for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. The game is designed by Shinji Mikami, the creator of the venerable Resident Evil 4, emphasizing speed, as opposed to the usual slow-moving cover mechanics found in the genre. Vanquish is set in...

17 June 2010
15:51 GMT

SEGA and Platinum Games Announce Vanquish

Platinum Games, as the developer, and SEGA, as the publisher, have revealed that they are working on a new third person shooter, called Vanquish, set to be delivered for the PlayStation 3 from Sony and on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft at some point during the winter launch season.Vanquish should offer a science fiction...

10 March 2010
13:31 GMT

Viewtiful Joe Remains in the Hands of His Creator, Hideki Kamiya

Hideki Kamiya may be the founder of Platinum Games, but he is better known as the creator of some of the most original and interesting IPs out there. These include the likes of Devil May Cry and Okami, but also the cheeky Viewtiful Joe. After the original idea was conceived, Capcom was the one that took responsibilit...

8 December 2009
03:22 GMT

Bayonetta Earns Perfect Score on the Xbox 360, but the PS3 Version Is a Lesser One

Gaming magazine Famitsu is the first to come to a hands-on conclusion regarding Platinum Games's newest action title, Bayonetta. The official verdict is in and according to it it is perfect. The game was put in front a of a four-man jury where it was awarded a mark from one to ten. After a strict deliberation, i...

21 October 2009
15:01 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

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

MadWorld Producer Says Making Black and White Games Is Hard

MadWorld is shaping up to be quite an interesting title. It will be an action adventure video game, exclusive to the Nintendo Wii console, which will showcase quite a lot of violence, but, in a more comical way, as its developers from Platinum Games have said.The game will place you in the shoes of a not so normal me...

8 December 2008
02:43 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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