PlayStation

Lumines On The VIta Is Cool, Except For The Tapping Parts

Lumines was one of the best games on the original PlayStation Portable. It was sort of a rave version of Tetris, which was a very good thing. The successor to the PSP is now upon us, and so is a new Lumines, subtitled Electronic Symphony.


September 19, 2011
PlayStation

Get Ready To Fall In Love With Lumines All Over Again

Monster Hunter is now synonymous with the PSP. Back in late 2004 and early 2005, that wasn’t the case. Monster Hunter was a PS2 game, and Sony was still convinced that the PSP was its new Walkman.


September 15, 2011
PlayStation

Turn Your PlayStation Move Into A Club Happy Glow Stick

4am is the latest title on Q Entertainment’s PixelJunk brand. Details about the game are scant, even though there is a debut trailer. It promises that players can “freely shape the sound to perfection” and then broadcast that sound to the world.


August 6, 2011
News

Why Japan Is The Only Country That Adores Monster Hunter

Q Entertainment makes very pretty games like Lumines and Child of Eden. Games that are nothing at all like Monster Hunter. At the very least, he does walk the walk.


July 19, 2011
PlayStation

Child Of Eden Makes Beautiful Music On PS3 This September

Q Entertainment’s spiritual successor to classic musical shooter Rez, Child of Eden, already released on the Xbox 360, will come to the PlayStation 3 on September 20 in North America, September 23 in Europe.


May 25, 2011
News

Rez Creator Talks About Positive Power Of Games, Plays Child Of Eden At TED

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the developer behind Space Channel 5, Lumines and Rez – and its upcoming spiritual sequel Child of Eden – joined the long list of smart, creative types who can boast of having their own TED talk. What does Mizuguchi think is an “idea worth spreading”?


April 28, 2011
News

Answering Questions About Vibrators Is So Embarrassing

Making video games that support them, however, is totally awesome. In 2002, game designer Testuya Mizuguchi made a “trance vibrator” for his synethesia shooter Rez. The trance vibrator even came in a washable “protective glove”.


March 30, 2011
PlayStation

This Child Of Eden Trailer Is Gaming Synaesthesia

Dated for June 17, Child of Eden is the upcoming rhythm action game from Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the game designer responsible for the classic shooter Rez.


March 1, 2011
PlayStation

Child Of Eden Has A ‘Beauty’ Unlike Rez And A Vibrating Belt

The moment that Child of Eden, the follow-up to Sega’s trippy musical shooter Rez, starts to look evolutionarily different from its predecessor is during the level known as “Beauty”. It’s a trip through a softly coloured alien world, full of bizarre abstract creatures.


January 18, 2011
PC

Ninety-Nights Wakes Up As A Massively Multiplayer Online Game

Xbox 360 series Ninety-Nine Nights is being turned into computer-based MMORPG for Japan and Taiwan. More details are forthcoming, but the game with feature art and character designs from former SNK character designer Falcoon, reports 4Gamer.net.