Tag: Q-Games
News The Latest Game from the Creators of the PixelJunk Series Is Now Available on PS5
All You Need Is Help
Announced earlier this year, the cutesy co-op game All You Need Is Help is now available for purchase on PS5. It comes from Q-Games, the Japanese studio perhaps best known for the PixelJunk series. As you'd expect from the Kyoto-based developer, All You Need Is Help presents players with a unique experience. This is a co-op,...
News All You Need Is Help to Play This Cute Co-Op Game from the PixelJunk Devs
Q-Games returns
We're still patiently waiting for that PlayStation port of PixelJunk Eden 2 to arrive, but it's good to see that Q-Games is keeping itself busy with multiple projects. While we wait for the zen gardening platformer to turn up, take a look at All You Need Is Help, a brand new co-op game from the PixelJunk team. The game has four...
News PixelJunk Eden 2 Brings Chill Platforming to PS5, PS4 Later This Year
Just vibin'
The PixelJunk series has brought us many delightful games in various genres, one of the most memorable being PixelJunk Eden. It's an airy, chilled-out platformer that's all about swinging between plants, gathering pollen, and enjoying the music. It got a sequel a few years ago, aptly titled PixelJunk Eden 2. While it skipped PlayStation...
News Gather Garbage in Beat-'Em-Up PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe on PS5, PS4 This July
Scrappy do
Developer Q-Games has announced its latest title, PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe, now has a release date. The beat-'em-up is heading to both PS5 and PS4 on 27th July 2023. As the name implies, this isn't the first release of Scrappers. It initially launched on Apple Arcade a few years ago, but this Deluxe edition of the game brings it onto...
News Mental Clean-'Em-Up PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe Punches to PS5, PS4 in 2023
Taking out the trash
PixelJunk is plotting a return to PlayStation later this year, with Q-Games' PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe punching its way to PS5 and PS4. Trying to pin a genre on this one is a little tricky, but it's basically a 2D side-scrolling brawler... but you also have to gather the broken remains of your enemies and dump them into the...
Mini Review The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition (PS4) - New Improvements Can't Fix Everything
Back to work
The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition is aptly named, rising from the ashes of the original, short-lived version. While largely the same game you remember from 2016, this iteration ditches the free-to-play structure, introduces new features, and refreshes the experience in various other ways. Whether those changes are enough to make...
News The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition Rises from the Ashes on PS4 This September
Exactly the same date as original release
The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition has been dated for release on 6th September 2022, marking exactly six years since the original PS4 curio debuted. Developed and published by Q-Games after the studio reclaimed the rights, this new version is marching to PS4, with enhancements for those playing on PS5...
News The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition Formally Announced for PS4
Out later this year
We've known for a while now that unique PS4 title The Tomorrow Children will be revived by original creator Q-Games, and now the developer has formally revealed the project as The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition in a new trailer. Planned for release later this year, there'll be a standard PS4 version that'll have...
News The Tomorrow Children Will Feature Community-Designed Islands in PS4 Revival
Collaborative spirit
About six months ago, developer Q-Games announced it had acquired the IP rights to The Tomorrow Children, an unusual PS4 game that emphasised working together with other online players. The title had its servers shut down only about a year after it launched, but the studio is working to re-launch the game in 2022 with changes...
News The Tomorrow Children Will Return as Developer Q-Games Acquires IP Rights
Tomorrow, tomorrow
Q-Games, the studio behind The Tomorrow Children, has announced it now owns the rights to the obscure online co-op game. The PlayStation 4 title recently reached its five-year anniversary, although the game itself was shut down only a year after its launch. Sony has held the rights to the IP ever since, but in an unusual deal,...
News There's a PixelJunk Eden Sequel, But It's Not Currently Confirmed for PS4
Que?
Long before chill indie platformers were dime a dozen, PixelJunk Eden was very much the first of its kind. A soothing, visual feast for PlayStation 3, the Q-Games developed exclusive even enabled you to export gameplay footage to YouTube – prior to anyone sticking a Share button on the DualShock 4. And now, out of the blue, it’s getting a...
Review PixelJunk VR Dead Hungry (PS4)
McDead
Back on the PlayStation 3, the PixelJunk games were a staple of the digital offerings on the PlayStation Store. Whether it was Racers, Monsters, Eden, or the ever-popular Shooter titles, each game managed to bring something new to the table and make it fun. Developer Q-Games is now looking to continue that mythos in virtual reality with...
Gamescom 2017 PixelJunk VR Dead Hungry Is Our Kind of Cooking Game
Killer calories
Picture the scene: you’re a food truck chef aiming to end a zombie invasion by flipping patties and feeding the hungry horde. PixelJunk VR Dead Hungry is being ported to PlayStation VR by veteran developer Q-Games – and it’s looking pretty fun. A static virtual reality experience, you’ll need to fry up some greasy snacks in...
Review Nom Nom Galaxy (PlayStation 4)
Interstellar soup seller
Q-Games' PixelJunk series has always had its own quirky style, and while the developer's experiments may not have always hit the mark, they've at worst been worth a look. With the company's latest game Nom Nom Galaxy landing on PlayStation 4 – after hitting Steam Early Access last year – it's time to find out what the...
News Nom Nom Galaxy Rules Soup-reme on PS4 from Next Week
Concept sounds stew-pid
Udon know about you, but all of these PlayStation 4 indies are getting a bit predictable. It's almost like the smaller developers are boiling the same puzzle platforming broth, so thank heavens Q-Games hasn't chickened out, and has added some interesting new ingredients to the pot. Nom Nom Galaxy is the latest PlayStation 4...
News How the PS4's Social Features Inspired Forthcoming Exclusive The Tomorrow Children
Off to work we go
Back when Q-Games announced The Tomorrow Children at Gamescom 2014 earlier in the year, this editor recalls spending close to an hour trying to understand what the game is all about. The product of Sony’s long-running relationship with the Kyoto studio, this intriguing indie inspired by the Cold War and Soviet Union is one of the...
Review PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate (PlayStation 4)
Above and beyond
Double Eleven probably didn’t need to put this much effort into PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate, but the British-based studio has anyway. By combining both previous Q-Games developed PixelJunk Shooter games into a single package – as well as fix up a variety of small problems along the way – it's managed to take two of the most...
Review PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD (PlayStation Vita)
Tiki-tastic
If you thought that you'd saved the Tiki tribe from the perilous monster hoards attacking your settlements, then think again. Waves of vicious beasts still roam the wilderness, and Tikiman still only has one defence. It's time to construct towers augmented with powerful weapons and once again protect your kin from being gobbled up in...
News PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD Lays a Trap on 30th July
Somewhere over the rainbow
Double Eleven’s delicious high-definition port of PlayStation Network classic PixelJunk Monsters will crash like a cannonball onto the PlayStation Vita later this month. The British developer has confirmed that the tastefully titled PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD will strut onto Sony’s slick handheld on 30th July in...
News PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD Does the Tango with Destruction on Vita
The fox swat
PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD, an updated port of one of the strongest titles in the PlayStation 3’s digital collection, is set to dance onto the PlayStation Vita this summer. The fruit of a recently revealed publishing partnership between LittleBigPlanet PS Vita developer Double Eleven and Kyoto-based creator Q-Gam
News So, What Does PixelJunk Mean Anyway?
Unearthed secrets
We already know that PixelJunk is the name of one of the PlayStation Network’s most popular brands, but where did it get its title from? Developer Q-Games has laid out the reasoning in a brand new FAQ, which tackles pretty much everything you could ever want to know about the Kyoto-based developer. According to the document,...
Feature Why PixelJunk Studio Q-Games Is Creating Trip-Hop During Its Lunch Break
Massive attack
For all the satisfaction that comes alongside creating video games, there are times when it can be a gruelling occupation. Thankfully, the Kyoto-based studio behind the PixelJunk series has happened upon an innovative means of maintaining morale throughout the day. For the past six months, Q-Games has been using its lunch breaks to...
News PixelJunk and Lumines Developers Release New Record
Real time
Kyoto-based developer Q-Games may be best known for its work on the PixelJunk franchise, but the studio has been quietly expanding its portfolio into rock and roll over the past couple of months. Designed as a distraction to keep morale high during hectic coding sessions, the studio has formed a trip-hop supergroup known as The Electric...
News James Mielke Departs Lumines Developer for PixelJunk Studio
All change
Former 1UP writer James Mielke has departed Lumines developer Q Entertainment, and, in a twist that you almost certainly couldn’t make up, has announced his arrival at PixelJunk studio Q Games. He’ll serve as a producer on an unannounced project. Speaking with CVG, Mielke paid tribute to his former employer Tetsuya Mizuguchi:...
News PixelJunk Celebrates Anniversary in Style
Monstrous savings
Those of you lucky enough to reside in North America will be able to scoop up copies of PixelJunk Racers, PixelJunk Monsters, PixelJunk Eden and PixelJunk Shooter for just $1 from today. It’s all part of Q-Games' ongoing ten year anniversary celebrations. In addition, the more recent
News PixelJunk Sidescroller Drops Onto The PlayStation Store Next Week
Q-Games has attached an October 25th / October 26th release date to PixelJunk Sidescroller in North America and Europe respectively
The old-school space blaster is based on the secret Road To Dawn bonus stage in PixelJunk Shooter 2. "I really can't emphasise enough how really, really good old school fun SideScroller has turned out to be,"...
News The PixelJunk Series Will Make You Move
Get the party started
Q-Games' fantastic PixelJunk series has played a major role in bringing PSN to life. Titles like PixelJunk Monsters and PixelJunk Shooter are instantly familiar to most PS3 gamers: not only do they boast superb gameplay quality, but with each new title they somehow manage to also bring an addictive gameplay style that entirely...
News TGS 11: Q-Games' Awesome PlayStation Move Music Tool Now Known As PixelJunk 4am
Q-Games and Baiyon's impressive looking/sounding motion controlled music sequencer will be known as PixelJunk 4am when it launches
The game was originally announced as PixelJunk Lifelike. The game — which is hard to explain — allows you to use the PlayStation Move controller to manipulate music in 3D space. In essence: it's a niche but...
News Future PixelJunk Releases Will Feature Easier To Obtain Trophies
In an interview with PSU
com</a>, Q-Games' gaffer Dylan Cuthbert explained the studio's trophy design process. We start designing the trophies at around the 70% or 80% point, when we know what features the game is going to have," Cuthbert explained. "We do go out of our way to design the trophies so good players can collect...
News New PixelJunk Sidescroller Trailer Blasts Its Way Online
Q-Games has released a brand new trailer for the stunning looking PixelJunk Sidescroller
The game's still without a release date, but Q-Games' Ariel Angelotti promises that the studio is "hard at work making it oodles of fun all the while incorporating retro goodness, love, and a little bit of cheese into it". Uh-huh. The game itself looks...
E3 2011 PixelJunk Sidescroller Quietly Announced For PlayStation 3
Sony's press conference was pretty packed, leaving a few of the company's big PlayStation Network titles to miss out on a moment in the spotlight
One of those titles was PixelJunk Sidescroller, a new release in Q-Games' PixelJunk brand that doesn't look too dissimilar to PixelJunk Shooter. There's a little bit more on the game over at...
E3 2011 Q-Games Set To Showcase Three Titles At E3
You read the headline correctly: Q-Games has confirmed it will showcase three titles at this year's E3
We know one of the titles will be PixelJunk Lifelike — the company's bizarre PlayStation Move collaboration with Baiyon — but the other two are still shrouded in secrecy as far as we're aware. How much do you want to bet on one of the games...
News Q-Games Offers Developer Perspective Of PSN Outage
Industry veteran and Q-Games gaffer Dylan Cuthbert has spoken to IndustryGamers about the affect the current PSN outage is having on his company
Q-Games is behind the PixelJunk series — one of the most important brands available on the PlayStation Store. Unfortunately for Dylan and his company, the outage is already taking its toll on the studio's...
News PlayStation Network Themes Go All Three-Dimensional
Heads up all ten of you with a three-dimensional television, Sony's beginning to support your fancy new screen with some spiffing new dynamic themes
As spotted by PSNStores.com, a 3D PixelJunk Shooter 2 theme is available right now from the HK PlayStation Store right now. Keep your eyes on the US and European store updates this week to see if the...
News Who's Ready For More PixelJunk Shooter Next Month?
Q-Games has finally placed a firm March release date on their upcoming puzzle-shooter sequel, PixelJunk Shooter 2
The game will launch in North America on March 1st, following in Europ on March 2nd. The game includes a bunch of new mechanics, as well as a quirky online versus mode that's had the critics raving. In addition to the release date,...
News Q-Games Detail PixelJunk Shooter 2's Monstrous Online Component
PixelJunk Shooter 2 might have a host of new worlds, liquid, puzzles and bosses -- but clearly what's most exciting about the PSN dual-stick shooter sequel is the game's new online multiplayer component
"Rather than just do a simple battling-type system, we created a special cat-and-mouse type game which has you and the enemy take turns as cat...
News Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert Considering A Follow-Up To PixelJunk Monsters
There are plenty of tower-defense games available these days, but Q-Games' PixelJunk Monsters is still widely considered as one of the better ones
With the team currently working on a full-blown sequel to PixelJunk Shooter, the studio's head Dylan Cuthbert was questioned as to whether he'd consider a full sequel to another of PixelJunk's titles. And...
News PixelJunk Lifelike Brings the Noise to PlayStation Move
Q-Games' latest a mesh of music and oddity
The digital wizards at Q-Games have produced plenty of entries in the PixelJunk series for PS3, with Racers, Monsters, Shooter and Eden all available on the PlayStation Store. Now the company has once again teamed up with Japanese musician and Eden collaborator Baiyon to produce a new music-related title,...
News PixelJunk Lifelike To Get Tokyo Game Show Debut
We're done with GamesCom
Next up is the Tokyo Game Show, taking place mid-September. And Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert is excited, because he'll be showing off the latest PixelJunk project — PixelJunk Lifelike. The application (?) - which was revealed at GDC earlier in the year - will be a visualizer for the PlayStation 3 that features a collaboration...
News PixelJunk Racers: 2nd Lap Hits PlayStation Plus Two Weeks Early
US PlayStation Plus subscribers will get a nice treat in the form of PixelJunk Racers: 2nd Lap from today
The add-on, which will be made available as a free update to existing owners of Racers, will be a PlayStation Plus exclusive for the next two weeks. Plus subscribers will also get a discount on the price of the main game. PixelJunk Racers:...
News PixelJunk Racers, Erm, Races [Good One! - Ed] Onto The PSN This July 1st
Racers, racing? Did you like that one? It took an entire degree in journalism for us to be able to come up with stuff like that
Bet you wish you went to Uni now don't you? Anyway, yes. PixelJunk Racers - the black-sheep in the PixelJunk franchise. It's not that it wasn't any good (it was), it's just that the game's been overshadowed by the likes of...
News PixelJunk Shooter 2's Online Features Get Detailed
As was already teased, the US edition of the Official Playstation Magazine's got some juicy details on PixelJunk Shooter 2; namely some info on the game's online features
The magazine reveals that the retro-come-new shmup will feature head-to-head battles over PSN, aswell as a Ghost Attack mode, allowing you to download the best score runs from PSN...
News PixelJunk Shooter 2 Is A Genuine Product, A Full-Blown Sequel
If you were expecting PixelJunk Shooter 2 to be some kind of "Encore"-like extension to last year's PixelJunk Shooter -- it's more than that
It's a full-blown sequel as hinted by Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert earlier in the week. It's also now an official product, as it's just been unveiled on the Playstation Blog. For those that havent already heard,...
News PixelJunk Shooter 2 Outed; "A Proper Sequel," According To Q Games
Over the weekend, the American arm of the Official Playstation Magazine outed in a Tweet that the magazine's next issue would formally announce PixelJunk Shooter 2
Since then, our buddies over at TheSixthAxis have been grilling Q Games' gaffer, Dylan Cuthbert, in search of concrete details for the game. They dug up some nice little goodies, namely...
News PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe Gets US UMD Release In April
Dylan Cuthbert, the president of Pixeljunk's Q-Games, has confirmed that PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe will get a UMD release on April 27th in the US
The PSP title was originally released as a download on the Playstation Store, and earned a 4/4 in our review. If you're yet to play it, and can't bare to use up space on your PSP's Pro-Duo, this is well...
News PixelJunk Racers "2nd Lap" Presumably On The Horizon
A mysterious rating by the ESRB for PixelJunk Racers "2nd Lap" suggests we're due a dose of new PixelJunk Racers content anytime soon
It almost seems traditional for a PixelJunk title to get some extra DLC somewhere down the line, so if you were a fan of Racers we suggest keeping your ears to the ground for an official announcement of 2nd Lap.
News Sequel To Pixeljunk Shooter Confirmed By Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert
Q-Games' boss Dylan Cuthbert has told G4 that his company are currently working on a sequel to last year's PSN hit Pixeljunk Shooter
He told the website:Normally sequels are just a re-hashing of the ideas in the original. But for PixelJunk Shooter we still have a ton of ideas on the drawing board and the engine has lots of potential we want to...
Reminder PixelJunk Shooter's Out Today
Just a quick heads up to let you know that PixelJunk Shooter is out on the Playstation Store today
Our review is online now, read why we think it's great and worthy of 3/4 right here.
News Pixeljunk Shooter Shooting For A December 10th Launch
Q-Games' latest Pixeljunk game is due to launch worldwide on the Playstation Store this coming December 10th
Shooter takes a modern-twist on classic retro gameplay, introducing realistic fluid physics to a 2D blaster. The game's likely to cost around $10 when it launches.
News Piracy Seriously Discouraging Future Pixeljunk PSP Ports
We gave Pixeljunk Monsters Deluxe a perfect 4/4 because it's awesome
Naturally, that makes the game a desirable product. And we all know pirates like to steal products, rather than pay for them. If you're one of those pirates, reading this post, then you should probably be informed that piracy hurts game developers. In the case of Pixeljunk Monsters...
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