Vanquish Is A Third-Person Shooter From Resident Evil Creator, Shinji Mikami.

Platinum Games and Shinji Mikami’s latest title, Vanquish, will release this year (in Japan at least). The game’s been announced for release on the Playstation 3 in this week’s Famitsu. Mikami’s revealed that the game is 80 percent finished and, contrary to popular belief, is a third-person shooter.

We posted the debut trailer a few weeks back.

MAG Fared Well In America Over Its First Five Days On Sale.

Not at all, valued reader. The NPD has detailed the top-twenty games in January, continuing our coverage from last week. With five days on sales MAG managed to outsell the XBOX 360 version of Bayonetta which pulled in somewhere above 100,000 sales. It’s safe to assume then that MAG easily beat out 100,000 unit-sales, but the official numbers are yet to be released.

Sadly, the PS3 version of Bayonetta didn’t debut, due to a host of performance issues that have since been patched.

Bayonetta's Shifted Over A Million Copies. Success!

SEGA’s announced that Bayonetta has passed 1.1million sales. Despite announcing it as the company’s second best selling game in the nine months ending December 31st (a period when Bayonetta was not released in the West), SEGA are claiming Bayonetta’s worldwide sales as 1.1million. Shrugs – your guess is as good as mine.

Still, we reckon a sequel is almost guaranteed now. Don’t you? Let’s hope the PS3 version of the game is solid out of the door this time!

Vanquish Is The New Title From Platinum Games.

As teased by host GTTV Geoff Keighley, Platinum Games have indeed revealed their new game as part of the show. It’s called Vanquish and it looks like Halo. Bet your bottom dollar bill it’s a cover-based shooter. Resident Evil-man Shinji Mikami is on board for this game.

Despite a high-octane trailer, we’re most certainly not impressed.

The audio’s cool we ’spose.

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Bayonetta: Now Officially 22.7% More Awesome On PS3.

It would appear that rumours of Sony stepping in to fix Bayonetta’s horrific performance issues were true; today’s “Installation” patch (which significantly improves load times) is rumoured to have been developed by Sony. That comes according to a quote on Dutch site Tweakers, who claim that a SEGA rep informed them the upgrade had nothing to do with his employer, nor Platinum Games.

We’ve been playing Bayonetta on PS3 this morning by the way, and it’s an enormous step-forward. In fact, you might want to consider adding a Square to our review. Yes, it’s that much better.

Bayonetta Is Now Patched Up. Consider Buying It If You're Interested In Librarians Attacking Angels With Their Hair.

Hey Europeans. If you’ve been waiting on your fix of Bayonettawithout the horrendous load times, then insert you game right now – you should be told to download a patch which will allow you to install game data and (hopefully) stop the “loading” message from popping up when you hit the, erm, pause button.

It’s 136mb patch with a 4.5gb install. Excessive yes, but not as excessive as Bayonetta’s load times.

Bayonetta Might Finally Stop Loading The Pause Screen Post-Patch.

Finally. We mentioned how gutting it was to see Bayonetta chug its way through levels in our review, and even suggested that a simple installation patch might half those load issues. Well, it’s been an announced that online patch for the game will allow installation of some of the game’s data, hopefully aiding those issues.

It’s unknown whether the patch will aid the framerate issues but, hey, fixing the load issues is better than nothing!