Its been almost four years since Bayonetta 3 was announced as a Nintendo Switch exclusive, and since then? Nary a peep from developer Platinum Games, who have been very busy working on all manner of other projects in addition to a threequel starring the sultry witch with the longest of legs and a fondness for high-heel firepower. Speaking on Hamster’s Arcade Archives streams, Platinum’s notoriously prickly and Twitter-blocking mastermind Hideki Kamiya noted that progress was still, well, progressing on Bayonetta 3.

Has Bayonetta 3 been thrown onto the same pile of cancellation that Scalebound currently inhabits? Not a chance, says Platinum Games.

From the next chapter in Fable to the leggy absence of gaming’s most sensual ass-kicker, here’s a look at some games and hardware who failed to arrive fashionably late at E3 2019.

Bayonetta is effectively two-thirds of an exclusive Nintendo franchise right now, thanks to the Big N stepping in at the 11th hour to rescue the franchise. There’s a story behind the creation and continuation of Bayonetta, one which Platinum Games big cheese Hideki Kamiya detailed in a series of fascinating tweets.

This year’s Game Awards was a great show. Plenty of announcements, plenty of trailers and at least one instance of a game developer telling the Oscars to go f*** themselves. Our kind of show! In case you missed the show, worry not. Here’s a list of trailers from the various announcements, in case you weren’t ready to wake up at 3 in the AM to stream the event.

Bayonetta is finally getting its third entry, and Nintendo is bringing it exclusively to the Switch. Along with the first two brillaint Platinum titles.