Sega’s double dose of Bayonetta contests

SEGA of America has launched “Bayonetta Re-Envisioned,” a user-generated art contest at WizardUniverse.com centered on the heroine of SEGA’s upcoming Bayonetta video game. After a month and more than 100 submissions, Wizard and SEGA selected their favorite entries which are now posted at wizarduniverse.com for fans to vote on. While the final decision will be determined by PlatinumGames, the developers of the game, the votes will be used to assist the judges in determining the Grand Prize winner, as well as the top 10 runners-up, who will each be awarded with an autographed copy of the game. The winners will be announced in October, 2009.

Sega also announced that Men’s lifestyle magazine and many people’s favorite form of softcore porn, Maxim, is also hosting a contest. The point of the contest is to find a real life version of the game’s star on Maxim.com, the digital counterpart to Maxim. SEGA is looking for the one girl who best captures the style and attitude of the heroine of PlatinumGames’ upcoming action game. The winning contestant will be spotlighted on Maxim.com and receive a Xbox 360, a 50 inch Panasonic TC-P50X1 HDTV Plasma TV and a copy of Bayonetta for the Xbox 360. Find out more about the contest by visiting www.maxim.com

Bayonetta is slated for release in January 2010 for Xbox 360 and PS3.

Bayonetta coming to Comic-Con

Everyone seems to be enamored with Sega’s and PlatinumGames’ upcoming action game, Bayonetta - even Scott Jones seems to be in love with it (read his E3 preview). Sega sees the writing on the wall and is bringing the game front and center in San Diego next week for Comic-Con. At Comic-Con 2009 in the San Diego Convention Center, SEGA’s Bayonetta video game will be given the star treatment with a a variety of events and activities including a developer panel, game demos, a live action model, and an attendee cosplay contest.

The hands-on demo portion of Bayonetta’s Comic-con presence will take place July 23 - 26 from 9:30am - 7 pm on all days (except 9:30-5pm on July 26) at the SEGA Booth #5229. Sega will also feature Iron Man II, Planet 51, and Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing.

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Sega reveals E3 Expo line-up

SEGA of America today revealed its lin-up of titles to be showed off at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 2009) next week. SEGA will feature seven titles across six different platforms, including familiar franchises and new games, for the Xbox 360, the Wii, PS3, Windows PC, and the Nintendo DS. SEGA will showcase their games at booth #2001 in the South Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Sega plans to show off the latest builds of Aliens vs. Predator (Xbox 360, PS3, Windows PC), Obsidian Entertainment’s Alpha Protocol (Xbox 360,PS3, Windows PC), Platinum Games’ BAYONETTA (Xbox 360,PS3), Pyro Studios’ Planet 51 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS), High Voltage Software’s The Conduit (Wii), Ilion Studio’s ‘ Planet 51 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS) and Sega’s Vancouver 2010 and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.

Details on all these games - if you don’t know, after the break:

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Sega’s Games Convention Plans

SEGA Europe and SEGA Germany are getting ready for Games Convention 2008, in Leipzig, Germany next week and today announced some of the things they have planned for public and industry consumption.

The new Samba De Amigo game will make its public debut next week, along with two Sonic games: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood on the DS and Sonic Unleashed. SEGA will also showcase Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Beijing 2008, Dinosaur King, and Space Siege.

Industry types will want to visit Sega’s booth in the Business Center (Hall 1, Booth I31), where the company will provide access to developers from Japan (Platinum Games), the UK (Headstrong Games, The Creative Assembly), and Australia (The Creative Assembly Australia), who will show off their latest games.

Games to be shown in the business area include Total War, Alpha Protocol, Platinum Games’ and Bayonetta, Madworld, Golden Axe, Valkyria Chronicles, and Stormrise – an all new strategy game designed for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.