It’s a battle between a huge hammer and dual chainsaws.

Jack revs up his chainsaw for another brutal kill.

Atsushi Inaba’s multiplayer online brawler has Madworld cameo.

Shinji Mikami’s final Vanquish blog post shows an interesting, but unused concept for the game. Early on, Vanquish didn’t have Sam as a pilot.

Bayonetta looked different three years ago and the changes are deeper than a new HUD. An early version of the game from November 2007 didn’t have torture attacks.

Vanquish, Platinum Games’ take on the third person shooter genre, will slide into stores in just a few weeks. While Vanquish does not have multiplayer mode, that feature is a core component of a future game.

Sega, so far, have not announced a sequel to Bayonetta, but Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya believes we’ll see one.

The Vanquish demo launches in North America first on August 31. Europe gets it next on September 1. Finally, Japan and Australia meet Sam on September 2.

After bits of story this Vanquish trailer shows a scene of Sam giving a mech an uppercut.

Sega announced a budget version of Bayonetta for Japan. The climax action game will join Sony’s PlayStation the Best and Microsoft’s Platinum Collection lineups on September 2.

A single tweet from Bayonetta producer Yusuke Hashimoto is making message boards climax.

Famitsu has a Vanquish spread in this weeks issue and a release date for Japan. The magazine’s handy info box says Vanquish will be ready on October 21.

While Mikami feels Vanquish has Western style, he was originally inspired by Casshern.

What makes Vanquish different from other cover to cover third person shooters? Power suits.

Sam, the combat suit creating hero in Vanquish, can light a cigarette and toss it to decoy robots while he boosts to a different cover point.

Along with a release date, SEGA sent out a whole bunch of screenshots and the game’s box art in time for E3.