Platinum Games launches community site
by Ben Gilbert 
on Jan 30th 2009 2:56PM
Billed as a "grand experiment," Japanese developer Platinum Games just opened an English-language website for gamers outside of the land that birthed Chocobos. Rather than creating a corporate site
de rigeur, Platinum's taking a more community-based approach, including forums (
MadWorld will be teh awesome everyone!), social media interaction (
Hideki Kamiya just ate a sandwich!) and even a video podcast.
"It is part corporate homepage, part purpose built community portal," reads the site's front page. And between that
fancy new logo and this community-based initiative, we'll remain hopeful going forward. After all, this isn't
the first time a Japanese developer has tried to do this, right? What's
the worst that could happen?
