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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Madworld soundtrack released

Original hiphop songs produced by composer Naoto Tanaka featuring exclusive performances from OX, Doujah Raze, Sick-YG, Bandy Leggz, Wordsmith, S.O.U.L. Purpose and Optimus are the key reasons why you may want to pick up the official soundtrack for Sega’s Mad World. Sumthing Else Music Works has released the Madworld official soundtrack to retail outlets, via its difital distribution site (www.sumthingdigital.com) and via iTunes. The soundtrack features 20 original songs from the inventive and often gory third person action game developed by PlatinumGames.

The Madworld Official Soundtrack includes all 20 original songs from the game produced by PlatinumGames composer Naoto Tanaka in collaboration with HipHop and Rap artists OX, Doujah Raze, Sick-YG, Bandy Leggz, Wordsmith, S.O.U.L. Purpose, and Optimus. Featuring explicit lyrics, the provocative soundtrack reflectsthe game’s highly stylized graphics and visceral gameplay.