If you count Ninety-Nine Nights, which has yet to be released in the West, Tetsuya Mizuguchi had six games at E3 this year. Four of them were Lumines titles, including a brand new Xbox Live Arcade ...

Game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi talked about the "creative serendipities" that opened his senses and led to the pathway to creating Rez, the 2001 musical shooter that experimented with the concept of ...

Tetsuya Mizuguchi gives the impression of someone who's finally gotten the opportunity he's been waiting for. He's worked at Sega for around ten years, first in its arcade division, where he headed ...

Tetsuya Mizuguchi has a unique perspective on the role of music in video games. Many of his titles, like Lumines and Child of Eden, have a strong emphasis on interactive soundscapes, with players ...

In the sweat mist of a late 90s techno hall, Tetsuya Mizuguchi got his first glimpse of what would become his life's work. The young Japanese designer, still fresh from the success of creating one of ...

Sega's Tetsuya Mizuguchi made a dramatic switch in game design style after completing work on Sega Rally 2, but few gamers have complained. With Space Channel 5, Sega's "Space Game Producer" (that's ...

Tetris is one of the world’s most beloved and addictive video games, bought and downloaded hundreds of millions of times since its 1984 debut. It’s about to make its first appearance in virtual ...

On Saturday at Sony’s PlayStation Experience press conference, Rez Infinite stood out as one of the biggest surprises of the show. A remastered version of the classic music-infused rail shooter, ...

Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old ...

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