Lumines 2 at E3?

By Tom Bramwell Published 26 April, 2006

Sony lets slip.

Lumines 2 will be at E3 by the sound of it.

Although nobody's officially announced it, news of it slipped out during a video segment on Sony's US website. One of the chaps presenting was talking about PSP games, and mentioned that LocoRoco, Gangs of London and Lumines 2 will be at the show.

Lumines, of course, is the mega-brilliant musical puzzle game from Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Q Entertainment, which ate entire days when we first got hold of it - and any time we put it back in our PSPs, actually.

The man himself's talked about a sequel on a couple of occasions - most notably in an online chat where he talked about early development and how he's thinking about upping the maximum score to 999,999,999 this time around.

That said, if Lumines 2 does make it to E3, it won't be because Sony's publishing it, or even because Ubisoft - who did it in the West last time - is doing so. IGN spoke to both yesterday and both denied they were involved.

Whoever's doing it, if it's there we'll let you know what it's like.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Rayn #1 6 years ago

    Lumines is still one of the best PSP games (imo) so I'm well excited!

  • Flying_Pig #2 6 years ago

    Lumines 2?!?

    \o/

  • jack_klugman #3 6 years ago

    Lumines as GOTY '06 for me!

  • speedjack #4 6 years ago

    Humm...

    So whats happened to Every Extend Extra then ?

    Wasn't it due out in March ?

  • El_MUERkO #5 6 years ago

    i played it constantly for a month, and lots after but PES5 is stuck in my PSP now and i keep forgetting to bring lumines, and syphon filter is due soon and daxter has been looking tempting and PES6 is due for the world cup

    whens a bloke with a WoW addiction meant to play all these games

    >.

  • Cabelo #6 6 years ago

    I'm still desperately awaiting Every Extend Extra... hopefully Lumines 2 is just a screwy name for it.

  • DaveTheHutt #7 6 years ago

    Lumines is the only PSP game I own. Nothing else has really interested me so far. Had enough of GTA on Xbox, not a footy fan so PES5 is out... maybe Syphon Filter...? Will probably wait until it drops in price though...

    As much as I admire my PSP's sexy curves, I'm starting to feel it's a bit of a white elephant... why pay money to play compromised versions of what I can get for my big console... maybe E3 will see things pick up.

    Hutt out

  • JayScott #8 6 years ago

    Should be great - hard to stuff up such an essentially simple concept (though it has been done). I just hope they vary (even three or four different ones would be okay) the songs that you hear on the first few levels. Sat through those a few times, and as funky as they are...

  • Zuiyo #9 6 years ago

    Shouldn't it be Bandai? They published the first one.

  • Cabelo #10 6 years ago

    1up has screens and some cool info.

    Lumines 2 and Lumines Plus (PS2)... also there's finally some mention of Every Extend Extra. Could I be happier with a single news post? One reckons not.

  • lambtron #11 6 years ago

    "whens a bloke with a WoW addiction meant to play all these games"

    The loading times on PSP PES5 are _abysmal_ . That coupled with the fact that you spend half your time looking at frontend screens has really killed the game for me. Maybe if you play something else - you'll have more time ^_^. And Lumines has no loading times to speak of at all \0/.

  • Blerk #12 6 years ago

    Buena Vista are publishing it in all regions, and a PS2 version.

    Linky, although you'll need to get a login from BugMeNot in order to read it.

    Edit: And they're publishing Every Extend Extra, which was asked about above.
    Edited by 1 at 26/04/06 @ 14:58

  • Kay #13 6 years ago

    Lumines 2 doesn't look very different from the first one, does it? Let's hope they add a few more game modes.

    And what the hell is Meteos: Disney Edition?

    K
    Edited by 1 at 26/04/06 @ 15:10

  • Cabelo #14 6 years ago

    Doesn't need to look different... more tracks please ;)