How Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi is bringing his beloved franchise to mobile (update)

Puzzle games lend themselves to mobile’s touchscreen controls. And they’re profitbable, too — look at how King Entertainment has been a top-earning app store title with Candy Crush Saga. Cookie Jam has been making SGN Games the big bucks for years.

But when it comes to puzzles, it’s really about match-3. One of the best puzzle game franchises has yet to appear on smartphones. That changes later this year when Mobcast releases Lumines on mobile for the first time. The series fuses beat-driven music with the block-clearing action of Tetris, and it’s been a mainstay on PlayStation consoles since its debut in 2004.