News Summary

• Tetsuya Mizuguchi has long pursued the convergence of emotion, games, and technology.
• With the upcoming Lumines Arise, he and his team are bringing their stunning musical puzzler to VR for the first time.
• He was drawn to games that stretched the constraints of the medium, arcade cabinets that pushed the boundaries of sensory stimuli, companies, and people who were at the forefront of experimental gaming experiences.
• “I wanted to direct music videos.
• But when I graduated university, many great music videos already existed.
• So, I thought, ‘What’s Next?’”