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is a Japanese video game development company. Bayonetta and its sequel, Bayonetta 2, Vanquish, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and The Wonderful 101 are some notable games produced by the company.
It was founded under the name Seeds, Inc. on August 1, 2006, by Shinji Mikami, Atsushi Inaba, and Hideki Kamiya, former key members of Capcom's Clover Studio, and employed many former members of that studio. The company merged with Tatsuya Minami's Odd Ltd. to form PlatinumGames in October 2007. A few years after this company was established, video game publisher Sega announced that it would be publishing four unique properties developed by PlatinumGames, including: MadWorld, Infinite Space, Bayonetta, and Vanquish. Their partnership later extended to include Anarchy Reigns. However, none of these were a commercial success, even though most of them received high critical praise.
While the company's core goal is to create new and original intellectual property, the team shifted to create more licensed titles. In 2013, the company released Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for Konami. The company also partnered with Activision to create licensed titles based on The Legend of Korra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Transformers. The company worked with first-party game publishers, such as Nintendo on The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2 for the Wii U. Both of these titles were unsuccessful commercially. The company is currently working on two major projects: Scalebound, an Xbox Play Anywhere title for Microsoft Studios, and Nier: Automata for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4.