Konami launches Touch Konami site, reveals more games coming to iPhone, iPod Touch

In the wake of the Metal Gear Touch’s announcement, it has also been uncovered that Konami intends to bring over other games to the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms as well.

As of right now, it looks like Konami’s touch-based games website will remain Japan-only but a press release confirms that the games will make way to North American and European markets.

Currently, there are four games planned to hit the Japanese App Store “soon”. These titles include: Silent Hill: The Escape, Dance Dance Revolution S Lite, Frogger and Metal Gear Touch. From the looks of things, Silent Hill: The Escape will be a first-person shooter, Dance Dance Revolution S Lite will use an on-screen touch pad to play and Frogger, well, looks like Frogger.

According to Konami, details on the upcoming titles are as follows:

• Dance Dance Revolution S Lite is a music game where you tap the arrow icons that appear at the bottom of the screen in time with music.
• Silent Hill: The Escape is a first-person 3D shooting game that lets players utilize the control features only found on the iPhone and iPod touch such as moving their character by sliding a finger across the touch panel screen and changing alignment to target enemies using the built-in altimeter.
• Frogger is a simple game where the player moves a frog 360 degrees to cross roads and rivers while avoiding obstacles.

DDR S Lite, Frogger and Silent Hill: The Escape are all planned to be released in 2008 (Frogger is currently available in North America for $5.99), with only DDR not going to Europe.

While you wait to test out your touch dancing skills, or for the Europeans, frog hopping skills, check out our photo gallery http://www.gamertell.com/gaming/gallery/album/konami-touch-games/to see what’s in store for touch-based “gaming platform”.

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