Meteos heads to Japanese Live Arcade this October

by Richard Mitchell { Aug 27th 2008 at 4:45PM }

According to 1UP the DS puzzle game Meteos is headed to Xbox Live Arcade in under two months. Developed by Q Entertainment -- the same folks that brought us Lumines Live, Every Extend Extra Extreme and Rez HD -- Meteos is a puzzle game that challenges players to match blocks and blast them off towards an opponents "planet." Like most puzzle games, it's more fun than it sounds. There's just one thing: according to 1UP, Meteos is only heading to the Japanese Xbox Live Arcade as "no US release has been announced yet." Given the track record of Q Entertainment, we're willing to bet that Meteos will release in the US as well. Let's just hope that the Lumines pricing fiasco doesn't come back to haunt us when it does.

Tags: arcade, live-arcade, meteos, q-entertainment, xbla, xbox-live-arcade

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

VeHeMeNcE @ Aug 27th 2008 4:53PM

I hope this comes to the US, Meteos is very fun and addictive and would be a very nice addition to XBLA.

Sincere @ Aug 27th 2008 5:18PM

Something makes me think that picture was altered...

AoE @ Aug 27th 2008 5:51PM

agreed... I think they switched the red and the blue blocks?

Tony @ Aug 27th 2008 5:21PM

Oh, awesome. I really liked the original.

ZenGaijin @ Aug 27th 2008 6:02PM

I wonder how well it will control without the touchscreen dynamic. I really loved the original the disney sequel though, not so much.

Blue_Falcon @ Aug 27th 2008 6:04PM

I'm more than willing to buy it again. Bring it on, Q?!

Aero @ Aug 27th 2008 6:48PM

Please please please release this everywhere.
Normally this would be a given, but they did make a PC version only in Japan.

Dustin @ Aug 27th 2008 7:01PM

I STILL play this a ton on DS... easily one of my top ten favorite handheld games, and I prefer it over Lumines any day. So I really hope this gets a state-side release sooner rather than later. It would have been great to add on to the summer of arcade. But I'm concerned about how the controls would translate...

Jonah Falcon @ Aug 27th 2008 10:53PM

Do we need another Lumines?

Darkharmony @ Aug 28th 2008 4:45AM

I enjoyed lumines a lot. I'd love to see a new pack released for it.

Boff @ Aug 28th 2008 6:44AM

Loving the new box art!! Good effort!

chefgon_ign @ Aug 28th 2008 9:59AM

They are going to need some seriously clever controls to make this game work without a touch screen. The original game is heavily designed around it, if the control isn't absolutely perfect then it will need to be slowed down significantly just to be playable.