JAPAN’S GAMES PRESS INSTITUTION FAMITSU LAUNCHES IPHONE MAG
How do you know your platform is gaining credibility in Japan’s gaming industry? When — even as the tech industry wrings its hands over its sluggish adoption — games press institution Famitsu devotes an entire new publication to it, as it has this month for the iPhone.
The first issue of Famitsu iPhone is due in tech shops and exclusive-iPhone-carrier Softbank’s retail outlets this Friday and will be given away for free. The publication will debut with coverage of I Love Katamari, Square Enix’s tower defense game Crystal Defenders, and an exclusive interview with Hideo Kojima on Metal Gear Solid Touch.
Famitsu doesn’t specify whether future issues will expand to a full, paid publication, but it does promise that while “some people still do not have an iPhone, if you read this you will want the iPhone.”
Famitsu iPhone announcement [Famitsu, google translation, via andriasang]
Previously:
Touch Snake: Kojima opens iPhone Metal Gear site – Offworld
A Metal Gear you can touch – Offworld
Katamari rolls onto iPhone – Offworld
iPhone Katamari gets Exquisite addition – Offworld
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