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Steam News · Jan 17, 2020
Five of the Best is a weekly series about the bits of games we overlook. Things like crowds, potions, mountains, hands. Things we barely notice while we're playing but can recall many years later because, it turns out, they're fundamental to our memory of the game. Well, now is the time to celebrate them! Today we're celebrating... Blocks! Or do I mean cubes? Don't! We had a whole argument about ...
Steam News · Jun 27, 2018
Q Entertainment s 2004 musical puzzler Lumines is back with another one of those block-droppin beats as Lumines Remastered, a remake of the original PSP game. It was great then and it s still basically the same, only now in fancy modern HD-o-vision. Drop coloured blocks onto a grid to form matches and score mega-points, grooving to tunes which also drive the pace of the puzzling...
Steam News · May 2, 2018
While I ve never been a true devotee to fast-paced puzzlers, Lumines has held a special place in my heart since 2005. Who d have thought that all you needed to turn simple two-colour block matching into something horrifically compelling was syncing the action to the beat? We ve known that Lumines is coming back for an HD encore for a while now, but today we have a release date fo...
Steam News · Mar 20, 2018
Rad rhythm puzzler Lumines is being fancied up for a re-release, coming back to PC in May as Lumines Remastered. It s a tile-matching puzzle game, right, about dropping two-tone squares down to connect like colours and score big points driven by a soundtrack which clears matches across the field in time to bars of the song passing. Puzzle and music and pictures combine for a nice puz...
Steam News · Mar 20, 2018
Lumines, Tetsuya Mizuguchi's brilliant music-infused puzzler, is coming to Nintendo's Switch this spring - and it will include the ability to turn your JoyCons into Trance Vibrators. It looks set to be a remastered version of the PSP original, first released in 2004 by Q Entertainment, the studio Mizuguchi founded in 2003. The former Sega producer has had a varied career since, leaving Q Entertain...
Steam News · Feb 20, 2012
Every time I fire up a Lumines game and am not instantly greeted by the mellow beats of Mondo Grosso's "Shinin" from the franchise's 2004 PSP debut, I can't help but feel a little disappointed. That song will forever be linked with the magical feeling of the first game, when Q Entertainment's simple and sublime marriage of block-matching puzzle game and electronic magic rose above a crop of more ...
Steam News · Feb 14, 2012
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. The game could stand to be a littler harder, but it's a fun, stylish sequel nonetheless. Check out the video of me playing it, listen to some catchy music and ...
Steam News · Feb 1, 2012
Years of playing games like the original Lumines, Harmonix's Frequency, or Squid in a Box's PC shooter Waves have left me with a voracious appetite for electronic music, which is why the 34 tracks included in Ubisoft's Lumines Electronic Symphony have me drooling. Where else will you find music by Howard Jones and Art of Noise mingling with tracks by Benny Benassi or Russia's SCSI-9? Okay, outsid...
Steam News · Feb 1, 2012
Years of playing games like the original Lumines, Harmonix's Frequency, or Squid in a Box's PC shooter Waves have left me with a voracious appetite for electronic music, which is why the 34 tracks included in Ubisoft's Lumines Electronic Symphony have me drooling. Where else will you find music by Howard Jones and Art of Noise mingling with tracks by Benny Benassi or Russia's SCSI-9? Okay, outsid...
Steam News · Jan 25, 2012
We think Lumines is one of the best games for the PSP. But damn was it ever hard to experience everything the game had to offer. In the first game, players had to grind through the entire game to hear all the music or see all the trippy synchronized visuals. Lumines II improved on that with tiered difficulty settings and the ability to make custom playlists but you still had to reach a level to un...