{"id":13978,"date":"2011-09-12T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-bayonetta-2-reveal-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13978-rumour-control-bayonetta-2-reveal-imminent","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Bayonetta 2 reveal imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platinum Games&rsquo; on-again, off-again Bayonetta sequel is back in the news, this time via unofficial Sega news site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tssznews.com\/2011\/09\/12\/source-sega-preparing-new-bayonetta-game-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"TSSZ\">TSSZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the post, the site&rsquo;s anonymous inside &ldquo;source&rdquo; claims an announcement is coming &ldquo;fairly soon&rdquo;, with speculation it could happen as soon as this weekend, at the Tokyo Games Show.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Bayonetta game designer Hideki Kamiya responded to fan queries on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/PG_kamiya\/status\/108514214934622208\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> about a sequel announcement by promising one &ldquo;this week&#8230; in a game magazine&rdquo; although it turns out he was being sarcastic or something.<\/p>\n<p>His colleague Atsushi Inaba later said there&rsquo;s &ldquo;no such announcement&rdquo;, and warned fans that Kamiya has a strange sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a year ago, Inaba told <a href=\" http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2010-10-04-pg-bayonetta-2-when-the-time-is-right\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Eurogamer\">Eurogamer<\/a> that Platinum &ldquo;would love&rdquo; to make a second Bayonetta game, but would do so only when &ldquo;the time is right&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>TSSZ&rsquo;s source also confirmed that an animated Bayonetta spin-off project is in production at a Sega Sammy studio.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17570-Bayonetta-2-reveal-is-imminent\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Rumour control: Bayonetta 2 reveal imminent\"><strong>Rumour control: Bayonetta 2 reveal imminent<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could happen at the Tokyo Game Show this weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}