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The Wonderful 101 Heads For Wii U In September

Platinum Games’ swarm-of-super-heroes action game The Wonderful 101 will launch on the Wii U on September 15.


Some Gamers Bash Comment About Game Length, Prompts Clarification

Outspoken game director Hideki Kamiya’s tweet about prioritising fun over game length has stirred enough of a response to provoke a follow-up from his long-time producer. A day after Kamiya said this…


Japanese Developers Weigh In On The PS4

Last week, Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu asked their readers what they thought about the PS4. In this week’s issue, the question was lobbed in the direction of many of Japan’s biggest game makers, to get the developer point of view on Sony’s as-of-yet faceless console. Take a look at what some of them had to say:


Reviewers Say Addictive Combat Is What Makes Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

It seems that Raiden’s new, high-speed romp through the world of Metal Gear has taken hold of everyone. Even the most critical ones found something to like about the adrenaline-pumping limb-slashing gameplay.


Full Metal Gear Rising Will Probably Feel Different To The Demos

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance will be hitting stores in less than three weeks, and anticipations are high. In this week’s Weekly Famitsu, Platinum Games producer, Atsushi Inaba and director Kenji Saitou along with Konami’s Kojima Production producer Yuuji Korekado and scenario writer Etsu Tamari sat down to talk about their upcoming Metal Gear.


New Trailer For The Wonderful 101 Shows Off Giant Robots, Waterslides

Nestled in all the bombshells of this morning’s Nintendo Direct was a nice-looking new trailer for Platinum Games’ strategy/action title The Wonderful 101 — formerly Project P-100.


A Look Behind The Scenes Of Bayonetta 2

Shown off at the Nintendo Direct this morning, here’s a look at Bayonetta 2, which will be out for Wii U at some point in the future.


The Makers Of Bayonetta Would Love To Buy The Suddenly-Endangered Darksiders Series

One of the sad and somewhat odd outcomes of today’s big auction of top games and studios from game publisher THQ is that no one — not EA, not Activision, not Take Two, not Bethesda, not Ubisoft… no one — made a bid for the action-game series Darksiders and Vigil, the studio that made those games.


Original Devil May Cry Creator Sticks Up For The New DmC

Game developer Hideki Kamiya of Platinum Games and recent Bayonetta fame will field just about any question on Twitter, whether he’s well-versed on a topic or not. Something he knows a ton about? Devil May Cry games. Kamiya was the director on the original Devil May Cry back in 2001 and a very good authority on what makes a Devil May Cry game great.


Community Review: Anarchy Reigns

It’s time for the community to put judgement on Anarchy Reigns, a beat-em-up from the accomplished, yet underrated, Platinum Games. Yet from what I’ve seen of promotional material so far, the term “beat-em-up” might be selling this game short. Am I wrong?


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