Q Entertainment
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 Sega 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.
Games released
Lumines — (2004) (PlayStation Portable) Meteos — (2005) (Nintendo DS) Every Extend Extra (E3) — (2006) (PlayStation Portable) Lumines Live! — (2006) (Xbox Live Arcade) Lumines II — (2006) (PlayStation Portable) Every Extend Extra Extreme (E4) — (2007) (Xbox Live Arcade) Meteos Wars — (2008) (Xbox Live Arcade) Lumines Supernova — (2008) (PlayStation 3)
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) (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)
Games in development
Rock Band: Japan — (TBA) (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii) Ninety-Nine Nights II (TBA) (Xbox 360) QJ (TBA) (Wii) Angel Senki — (TBA) (PC, PlayStation 3)
Translation
The phrase "Q Entertainment" occurs as such in the following languages: English, French.
Translation in Japanese: キューエンタテインメント.
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