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What Do Rez And Space Channel 5 Have In Common? This Guy

9:00PM September 19, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Artist Jake Kazdal has been working in the video game industry for around 15 years now, for companies like Electronic Arts, Zombie VR and Big Boss. More »


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Mirror’s Edge + Canabalt + Acid? Yes Please

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2:30PM July 18, 2011 | Mark Serrels

I’m in no way condoning drug use of any kind (except for Panadol, because I have a headache and I’m about to take some) but Fotonica is Mirror’s Edge + Canabalt + Acid, and I think it looks incredible – as if someone put the one-button-jump game inside a Rez style universe that continually invents itself through motion. It’s a pretty incredible experience. More »


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I Waited A Decade For A Game That Moved Me Like Rez

2:20AM June 30, 2011 | Jane Pinckard

I’d played games avidly since I could manipulate keys on a keyboard, with the same ferocity of concentration that I’d read all the books in my parents’ house. I read everything from Agatha Christie’s endless novels to “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”. More »


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

9:30AM May 25, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

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”? More »


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Answering Questions About Vibrators Is So Embarrassing

10:20PM April 28, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

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”. More »


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In The Mood For A Little Child Of Eden?

2:30AM April 23, 2011 | Mike Fahey

We’ve been sold on Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s celebration of music and movement since we saw Child of Eden at E3 2010, so each additional trailer is just a bittersweet reminder that we don’t have yet. More »


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

10:30AM March 1, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

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. More »


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Play Fotonica, A Gorgeous Mix Of Rez And Mirror’s Edge

2:00PM January 20, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

You’ll only need to one button to play Fotonica, a first-person platform jumping game oozing with style that its creators say is created in the fashion of “ugly 3D of the ’90s”. More »


Preview: Finding Happiness With Child Of Eden

2:20AM September 29, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

Developer Q? Entertainment’s Child of Eden finds players in a happier place than the game it was inspired by, the trippy 2001 musical shooter Rez. More »


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Child Of Eden’s Ending Will Feature Your Happiest Moments

2:00AM September 29, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

Tetsuya Mizuguchi wants to share your “happy feelings” with the world – or at least with the people who play Child of Eden, developer Q? Entertainment’s spiritual sequel to the classic synaesthetic shooter Rez. More »