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    PlatinumGames Launch Official English Website

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    PlatinumGames has launched their official English language website after initially keeping in contact with fans via a Facebook account.

    Initially the studio had been posting updates using FaceBook and Twitter, and whilst they still seem to be doing so, the official website now serves as a English hub for their upcoming games.


    PlatinumGames said
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    Japanese game companies are notorious for not “getting it”. They are thought of as slow moving, orthodox, and out of touch. One of the places where Japanese companies seem to not “get it” is community. Sure, you may have an American branch leading a great community effort, but it is very rare for a Japanese company to reach out in a meaningful way to its Western users.

    PlatinumGames.com is our attempt at getting it right. It isn’t simply a translation of our Japanese webpage. It is part corporate homepage, part purpose built community portal. We want you to know who we are, but we also want to know who you are. PlatinumGames is not only about our creators, or our titles, it is about our fans. We want you to gather around our titles and interact with PlatinumGames staff and other fans. We want to involve you in our process of creation, and we want to be involved in your experience after you’ve paid your hard earned dollars for the fruits of our hard work. A game really isn’t finished until a user is finished playing it. We want to be there with you every step of the way.

    PlatinumGames wasn’t built on some arcane system requiring multiple logins and draconian moderation. It’s built on proven, open tools like WordPress, to make it easy for you to interact with us. We’re on Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook, so you can access and interact with our content from wherever you’d like. You can even access PlatinumGames.com from your iPhone or other Smartphone browser on the go. All of these tools provide a great way to interact with us; however, we also want you to interact with each other as well. That is why we’ve integrated a forum system where you can talk about what interests you. We’ll hop into the discussions from time to time as well.

    While our blogs and forums are a big part of the site, we realize you might want to actually see and hear from us. That is why we’ve created PGTV, our video podcast series that will give you an inside look at PlatinumGames and a seat at the table with our most talented creators. From interviews to behind the scenes looks, it will be the source of some of our most exciting content. Finally, we want to meet and greet as many of you as we can, so we plan on having community get-togethers whenever we get the chance, be it in LA, London, or Leipzig.

    So welcome to our grand experiment. Its success depends on you.

    -JP
    International Coordinator, PlatinumGames Inc.


    *woot*


    Check it out here :
    http://platinumgames.com/


    EDIT:

    PlatinumGames are aware of a fault with the age gate and are working to fix it  :)



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    #2  Edited By kush

    PlatinumGames = Cannoli ...that basically means PlatinumGames is awesome. I only wish that MadWorld was coming out on more systems :(

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    #3  Edited By Linkyshinks

    I am so joining that forum, when it's up and running that is.

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    #4  Edited By stan

    Check out PGTV at http://platinumgames.com/pgtv/

    It's co-hosted by 8-4's Mark MacDonald, and the first episode is a 40 minute long form interview with MadWorld director Shigenori Nishikawa.

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    #5  Edited By Linkyshinks

    Saw it earlier <3

    Fan -F**kinservice

    OMG! look who's now working in Tokyo!


      

      

      

      

      

      








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    #6  Edited By brukaoru

    Finally something besides the facebook page they had going on. The site looks very nice, love the design.

    Great videos too! This is so awesome! xD

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    #7  Edited By Goly

    These are the guys who distributed no more heroes right? If so kudos to them, they're awesome.

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    #8  Edited By brukaoru
    Goly said:
    "These are the guys who distributed no more heroes right? If so kudos to them, they're awesome."
    No they aren't. "No More Heroes(ノーモア★ヒーローズNō Moa Hīrōzu) is an action video game for the Wii video game system. It was directed by Goichi Suda (known in Japan by the nickname Suda51), developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Marvelous Interactive Inc., Spike, Ubisoft and Rising Star Games." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Heroes_(video_game)

    PlatinumGames is filled with ex-Capcom employees, founded by Hideki Kamiya, Shinji Mikami, and Atsushi Inaba (who were part of Clover Studios). You are right that they are awesome though. ;)
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    #9  Edited By Goly
    brukaoru said:
    "Goly said:
    "These are the guys who distributed no more heroes right? If so kudos to them, they're awesome."
    No they aren't. "No More Heroes(ノーモア★ヒーローズNō Moa Hīrōzu) is an action video game for the Wii video game system. It was directed by Goichi Suda (known in Japan by the nickname Suda51), developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Marvelous Interactive Inc., Spike, Ubisoft and Rising Star Games." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Heroes_(video_game)

    PlatinumGames is filled with ex-Capcom employees, founded by Hideki Kamiya, Shinji Mikami, and Atsushi Inaba (who were part of Clover Studios). You are right that they are awesome though. ;)"
    Ooops got totally confused there, mixed marvelous with platinum. thanks anyway:)
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    #10  Edited By gunswordfist

    WHOA! I thought this was just going to be a page with a cool logo for the best newly formed game company. I hope the forums become active because I'm signing up.

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    #11  Edited By gunswordfist
    Linkyshinks said:
    "I am so joining that forum, when it's up and running that is."

    Cool. I'll see you there. I plan on starting a pretty interesting topic...

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