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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,...

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...

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...

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

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," president and gaffer Dylan Cuthbert wrote on the..

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...

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 incredible product. But why the name change? "4am is..

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 almost all of them naturally." But not all..

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 amazing. Catch the trailer after the jump.

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 PlayStation.com.

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 being for NGP? “E3 coming up… it’s exciting,"..

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 bottom-line. "PSN being out definitely..

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 theme makes the jump.

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, Q-Games' boss, Dylan Cuthbert, teased that the studio..

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 or mouse, either scouring the stage for the..

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 the answer is yes: "We want to make a..

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,...

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 with Eden's Baiyon. Q's also got PixelJunk Shooter..

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: 2nd Lap adds trophies, leaderboards and ghost..