Lumines

...simple. While Tetris requires players to essentially organize and pack a variety of shapes, and most color matching games like Columns or Lumines tweak that formula to further increase the importance of chaining, the Bust-A-Move series has...

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...both sites until being pushed to 2nd place by 2008's ''''. Gamespot scoring the game a 9 out of 10 called Lumines, "the greatest Tetris-style puzzle game since Tetris itself" praising its sound and beautiful presentation Jeremy Parish from...

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...for a short while. The bar for tile-dropping puzzle games has been a high one for many years thanks to the marvelously addictive Tetris, and since that game's release, games like Lumines have kept expectations soaring. In a world where...

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...version of Doom onto the iPod. When one popular Tetris-like game, called Lumines, was not released for the Nintendo GameBoy, one programmer made his own knockoff version, which he called "LumineSweeper." These are the things that happen...

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...an experience that's every bit as addictive as the original Tetris. Though the engrossing gameplay is the biggest strength of Lumines, the music isn't to be ignored. The tunes are groovy and enjoyable, and the crystal-clear audio sounds...

In this article: PlayStation, Puzzle, PlayStation Network, Lumines II, Little Big Planet, Xbox Live Arcade, Tetris, Super Mario Bros., and Xbox

...helped draw in gamers who wanted to play his game with familiar musical tracks. Though both are called "music games," Lumines isn't at all like Rock Band. It's a Tetris-style puzzle game that uses music to set the tempo of the falling...

In this article: Guitar Hero, Activision, Rock Band, Music games, Wired.com, Rez, PaRappa the Rapper, Lumines 2, and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock