entertainment . this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . january 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message q games limited type public citation needed industry video games founded august 9 2001 1 headquarters nakagy ku kyoto japan key people dylan cuthbert president managing director kenkichi shimooka vice president director 1 products digidrive star fox command pixeljunk series parent independent website www.q games.com q games limited is a video game developer based in nakagy ku kyoto japan 2 which works closely with both nintendo and sony . 1 contents 1 foundation 2 history 3 games developed 4 other projects 4.1 playstation home 5 references 6 sources 7 external links foundation edit q games was founded by dylan cuthbert 3 who previously worked at argonaut software and helped create starglider and starglider 2 for argonaut software then gave programming assistance to x and the first star fox for nintendo . he also developed star fox 2 to completion before heading off to work at sony america to make blasto on the playstation . after this dylan moved back to japan to work at sony japan where in early 1999 he developed the duck in a bath technical demo ducks demo that showcased the ps2 s power to early developers and publishers . 4 following that he developed pipo saru 2001 and then left sony to start q games ltd. in kyoto in september 2001 . history edit the first few years were spent accumulating staff and developing behind doors technology projects for a number of clients including sony and microsoft . at e3 2004 they showed two graphic technology demos 5 6 for the playstation portable and then internally began development on two games one for the game boy advance and one for the nintendo ds . these titles were announced as digidrive part of the bit generations series of puzzle games for the game boy advance and star fox command respectively . both were later released . following these projects q games began to collaborate with sony computer entertainment becoming a second party studio partner by developing the pixeljunk series of downloadable games for the playstation 3 . they are available for download and purchase on the playstation network store worldwide . pixeljunk games are presented in 1080p full hd . pixeljunk made its worldwide debut on 11 july 2007 at e3 2007 held in santa monica ca . at tgs 2009 q games confirmed that it is extremely unlikely these games will ever appear on the xbox 360 . 7 q games have also worked with nintendo again releasing several games for the nintendo dsi s dsiware digital distribution service . games developed edit game title release platform notes digidrive july 27 2006 game boy advance part of the bit generations series star fox command august 28 2006 nintendo ds pixeljunk racers september 13 2007 playstation 3 pixeljunk monsters january 24 2008 playstation 3 playstation vita microsoft windows mac os x linux pixeljunk monsters encore april 24 2008 playstation 3 playstation vita microsoft windows mac os x linux expansion pack add on to pixeljunk monsters pixeljunk eden july 31 2008 playstation 3 microsoft windows pixeljunk monsters deluxe october 1 2009 playstation portable art style digidrive october 2 2009 dsiware port of digidrive trajectile november 24 2009 dsiware known as reflect missile in pal regions pixeljunk shooter december 10 2009 playstation 3 microsoft windows mac os x linux playstation 4 playstation vita starship defence december 18 2009 dsiware known as starship patrol in pal regions x scape may 31 2010 dsiware known as x returns in japan and as 3d space tank in pal regions pixeljunk shooter 2 march 1 2011 playstation 3 playstation 4 playstation vita microsoft windows sequel to pixeljunk shooter star fox 64 3d september 9 2011 nintendo 3ds remake of star fox 64 co developed with nintendo ead pixeljunk sidescroller october 22 2011 playstation 3 pixeljunk 4am may 15 2012 playstation 3 visualizer august 13 2013 playstation 3 music visualization nom nom galaxy august 3 2015 microsoft windows mac os x linux playstation 4 pixeljunk shooter ultimate oct. 21 2015 microsoft windows the tomorrow children september 6 2016 playstation 4 the tomorrow children is a free to play game that merges social and action gameplay other projects edit as well as games development q games still develops technology directly with sony japan for the playstation 3 . the ps3 s xmb xross media bar interface background and music visualisers were developed by q games and they are credited with 3d graphics technology in the about ps3 section of the ps3 s os . playstation home edit on september 24 2009 q games released their own developer space for their series pixeljunk in the playstation 3 s online community based service playstation home to the japanese version and on october 9 2009 to the north american version . the pixeljunk museum japan or pixeljunk exhibition north america features the games pixeljunk eden pixeljunk monsters and pixeljunk racers . for pixeljunk eden there are glass wall art displays for pixeljunk monsters there are displays of familiar characters from the game and for pixeljunk racers there are displays of two different race cars . there is also a virtual shop in the space selling pixeljunk virtual items . in japan s version from september 24 2009 to october 9 2009 near the shop there was a panel that took users to a virtual version of q games tgs 2009 booth . called the q games virtual public tgs booth it was a virtual recreation of the q games tgs 2009 booth that had a free t shirt and a video screen . 8 on december 17 2009 they released another exhibition room to the pixeljunk exhibition space . this room is to display pixeljunk shooter and is called the pixeljunk shooter mother ship hangar . references edit a b c q games profile . q games.com . retrieved 2009 08 08 . q games contact . q games . retrieved on september 17 2010 . arte oike 3f oshinisinotouin cho 612 nakagyo ku kyoto japan 604 0042 . n sider.com dylan cuthbert archived copy . archived from the original on february 24 2007 . retrieved december 13 2006 . archived march 5 2006 at the wayback machine . archived september 12 2007 at the wayback machine . pixeljunk appearing on xbox 360 extremely unlikely . gaming union . 2009 10 07 . retrieved 2009 10 07 . pixeljunk museum . sce . sources edit chris kohler s book power up how japanese video games gave the world an extra life chapter 6 . an interview on gamasutra.com with q games english dylan cuthbert s profile on n sider.com english dylan cuthbert video interview on the 1 up show english external links edit japan portal companies portal video games portal q games official website v t e pixeljunk by q games racers monsters eden shooter shooter 2 sidescroller 4am retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title q games & oldid 738275408 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