Q Entertainment
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| Type | Video game development studio |
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| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters |  Tokyo, Japan |
| Key people | Tetsuya Mizuguchi |
| Industry | Software & Programming |
| Website | www.qentertainment.com |
Q Entertainment (キューエンタテインメント株式会社, Kyū Entateinmento Kabushiki-gaisha) creates, produces, and publishes in digital entertainment content across multiple game consoles, PC broadband and mobile units. It was founded in 2003 by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, formerly of Sega (where he was best known for producing the Dreamcast games Space Channel 5 and Rez), and Shuji Utsumi, former founding member of Sony Computer Entertainment America, Senior VP of Sega Enterprise, and head of Disney (Buena Vista Games) Asia.
It is best known for their critically acclaimed music and luminary action puzzle game series Lumines, which was released worldwide in 2004/2005 for the PlayStation Portable system and has now developed into mobile (Lumines Mobile), Xbox Live Arcade (Lumines Live!) and PlayStation 2 (Lumines Plus) platforms. Q Entertainment’s line-up also includes the action puzzle title Meteos for the Nintendo DS and fantasy action title Ninety-Nine Nights for the Xbox 360.
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[edit] Games released
- Lumines — (2004) (PlayStation Portable)
- Meteos — (2005) (Nintendo DS)
- Every Extend Extra — (2006) (PlayStation Portable)
- Lumines Live! — (2006) (Xbox Live Arcade)
- Lumines II — (2006) (PlayStation Portable)
- Every Extend Extra Extreme — (2007) (Xbox Live Arcade)
- Meteos Wars — (2008) (Xbox Live Arcade)
- Lumines Supernova — (2008) (PlayStation 3)
[edit] Games co-developed and released
- Ninety-Nine Nights (N3) — (2006) (Xbox 360), co-developed by Phantagram
- Lumines Mobile — (2006) (Mobile Phone)
- Meteos Mobile — (2006) (Mobile Phone)
- Battle Stadium D.O.N — (2006) (Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2), co-developed by Takara Tomy and Eighting Co., Ltd.
- Gunpey DS — (2006) (Nintendo DS), co-developed by Koto Laboratory
- Gunpey — (2006) (PlayStation Portable), co-developed by Koto Laboratory
- Lumines Plus — (2007) (PlayStation 2)
- Meteos: Disney Edition — (2007) (Nintendo DS)
- Lumines — (2007) (PC)
- Rez HD — (2008) (Xbox Live Arcade)
- Meteos Online — (2007) (PC)
- Angels Online — (2007) (PC, PlayStation 3)
- Peggle — (2009) (Nintendo DS)
[edit] Games in development
- Rock Band: Japan — (TBA) (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii)
- Ninety-Nine Nights II (TBA) (Xbox 360)
- QJ (TBA) (Wii)
- EDEN published by Ubisoft
- Angel Senki — (TBA) (PC, PlayStation 3)[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Tanaka, John (2009-05-15). "IGN: Q's New MMORPG for PS3". IGN. Fox Interactive. http://ps3.ign.com/articles/983/983219p1.html. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
