Lumines Supernova on PSN tomorrow

By Robert Purchese Published 4 February, 2009

European wait for stellar puzzler ends.

Q Entertainment will finally release Lumines Supernova on the European PlayStation Store tomorrow.

You'll need GBP 9.99 or EUR 14.99 to buy the puzzle game, which adds Dig Down and Sequencer modes to the much-ported, proven formula.

Dig Down has players burrow through a block-filled screen, and the Sequencer lets users piece together backing tracks from a stock selection of loops.

Trophies are in, as are Skin Edit, Time Attack, Puzzle, Mission and local head-to-head modes familiar to Lumines. There's no online multiplayer yet, though.

To celebrate all this, Q Entertainment has teamed with Media Molecule to offer a special LittleBigPlanet skin.

Lumines, for those unaware, is a puzzler based around arranging 2x2 squares of same-coloured blocks falling from the top of the screen. Do so, and a vertical line sweeps along and clears them in time to the music.

Look out for our thoughts on Lumines Supernova soon.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Rash' #1 3 years ago

    i still have the psp original and have sampled enough of Street Fighter to know when a franchise is being milked for all it's worth. more interested in LBP skin.

    /awaits SFIV...
    Edited by 1 at 04/02/09 @ 13:56

  • captain_ginge #2 3 years ago

    it's about bloody time we got this, yanks have had it ages !!

  • FeralUK #3 3 years ago

    Not played the PSP version so this will be on my wishlist.

  • superjag86 #4 3 years ago

    woo!

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #5 3 years ago

    finally been looking forward to this one,

    Does anyone know what happened to Acrobatic Battle Cars that was suppose to come last week ?

  • charliemouse #6 3 years ago

    Lumines only really works on handhelds IMO.

    Hopefully Supernova will change my mind.

  • myiagros #7 3 years ago

    I bought this on the US store before xmas, and really enjoyed it again, having not played a version since the PSP original.

    Sounds like a good month for the PSN store with the Burnout DLC & Killzone 2 demo also due tomorrow and Noby Noby Boy & Flower over the next two weeks.

  • dazrichards #8 3 years ago

    How about Cuboid?

  • toy_brain #9 3 years ago

    Yea, I want Cuboid too.
    Apparently its the best of the Creat Studios games, not that Magic Ball was bad, but I'm kinda done with that game now. Need something new!

  • Aretak #10 3 years ago

    Does anyone know what happened to Acrobatic Battle Cars that was suppose to come last week ?

    Sony put up a demo and charged £7.99 for it. It was supposed to be free, with a purchase of the full game available from the demo itself. So it got removed about half an hour after it was posted, and one of the developers said they were trying to sort it all out on NeoGAF.

  • chessboxer #11 3 years ago

    Cuboid can wait and new DLC is coming for it in a few weeks in the US so SCEE should release it in quieter period. If SCEE blow their wad and release everything decent one fell swoop, people will moan that nothing has been out for ages.

    I have a feeling that this will play more like Lumines I than Lumines II which isn't necessarily a good thing but I hope to be proven wrong.

    I'm a bit surprised that Q Entertainment didn't make this native 1080p (everything I've read so far points to it being 720p).

  • myiagros #12 3 years ago

    Cuboid is fun but only kept my interest for about 3hours. After i had played all the levels and retried a few for better times, it had been exhausted.

    It's a really easy set of trophies though.

    I'm tempted to give MAgic Ball a try next as that looks like fun.

  • kapowaz #13 3 years ago

    iPhone version please.

    That is all.

  • GamesConnoisseur #14 3 years ago

    CLAP! CLAP!!

    Really proud of European PSN at getting this out just over a month from US Store!

    Big improvement, keep it up lads!!

    SFHD Turbo?

  • jeff #15 3 years ago

    joins in the clapping

  • septimus #16 3 years ago

    More interested in an iPhone version to be honest.

  • beckyh #17 3 years ago

    Good news swiftly followed by the bitter pill of the £10 price tag. :-(

  • awb83 #18 3 years ago

    Do you think there will be a demo of it? I would like to try before I buy.


    £9.99 isn't to bad a price, I was expecting it to be about the £14.99 mark.

  • chessboxer #19 3 years ago

    Unlikely that there would be a demo. Lumines has been around long enough for people to know what it's about. 2 versions on PSP, 1 on PS2, 1 on the 360, a Java version for mobiles and you can buy it via Steam for PC.

    Lumines I is a great game but Lumines II is better. I just don't know which of the 2 Supernova will be closer to. £9.99 isn't a bad price, considering how much it was when it first came out on the PSP (£34.99).

  • Gormless #20 3 years ago

    10 fucking quid? Fucks sake Sony is there any chance you could stop shafting us in the anus?

  • EmiliasHorse #21 3 years ago

    Loved this on 360, especially liked the achievements. But felt it was more suited the the PSP control system (More solid, acurate D pad)
    Always thought a PS3 version should be released, and trophies makes it utterly unmissable. Sold!