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What’s Keeping Lumines Off The PlayStation Network
3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | The original Lumines and its sequel took advantage of all the PSP had to offer. You’d think that the puzzle music game would be penciled in for new Sony portable, the PSPgo. You’d think. More »
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Lumines To Shine On The IPhone
12:40AM Mike Fahey | Trips to the restroom will increase exponentially in length next month, as Q Entertainment brings the musical puzzler Lumines to Apple’s iPhone. More »
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What Is Tetsuya Mizuguchi Doing These Days?
6:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Well, not much with N3: Ninety-Nine Nights II, apparently! According to the upcoming issue of Famitsu, Tetsuya Mizuguchi (
Lumines Supernova Review: Still Shinin’
5:40AM Michael McWhertor | Q Entertainment’s sound and lightshow-cum-puzzle game Lumines was one of the breakout hits for the PSP. It has since been ported to everything possible, including the PlayStation 3. Does Lumines Supernova bring anything new? More »
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Official Lumines Game Hits LittleBigPlanet [Update]
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | You’ve seen enough “game within a game” things for LittleBigPlanet to make you ill. Gradius, Tetris, whatever, it’s been done. But you haven’t seen Lumines, especially one that comes from Q Entertainment. More »
Lumines Supernova At TGS Is Like Lumines Everywhere Else
10:20PM Michael McWhertor | With something like a billion versions of Q Entertainment’s Lumines published on various platforms, we won’t fault you for having but a single grain of enthusiasm for the PlayStation 3 version. We dredged up enough on your behalf, waiting a full thirty seconds in line to go hands on with Lumines Supernova. Unfortunately, the things that make Supernova stand out from the Lumines pack were nowhere to be seen. More »
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Tetsuya Mizuguchi Is Making New IP
4:20PM Brian Ashcraft | Tetsuya Mizuguchi is best known for Rez, Space Channel 5 and Lumines. He’s made lots of Lumines spin-offs like Lumines Live! and Lumines II. Key words: Lumines. We haven’t seen a new game from Mizuguchi for a while, but he confirmed to Kotaku that, yes, he’s working on a new IP. Says Mizuguchi: More »
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What’s Q Bringing To TGS?
8:30PM Michael McWhertor | Two of 2005’s better portable puzzlers, retooled with 2008 fidelity, as Q is wont to do. Lumines Supernova and Meteos Wars, two games you loved when they were known as Lumines and Meteos in simpler times, will be on-hand at Tokyo Game Show this week. The former will be playable at Sony’s booth, the latter at Microsoft’s, bringing balance to the Makuhari Messe show floor. More »
Lumines Gets Steamy
10:00AM Mike Fahey | Q Entertainment and Valve have announced that henceforth the brilliantly addictive puzzle game Lumines shall be available for purchase via Steam. Much like the Xbox Live version of the game, Lumines is available as a base pack for $US9.95, with an Advance Pack containing 21 new challenge mode skins, 60 puzzles for puzzle mode, and 35 stages for puzzle mode setting you back an additional $US7.95, or you can grab the whole thing for $US14.95, which is a much better deal, especially when you factor in the extra 10% you get if you purchase the game before Friday April 25th. I wonder if it will have the Heavenly Star stage? Just thinking about it makes me want to listen to the song 200 times in a row. More »
