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-
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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