Lumines designer taking a break from game development

Newsbrief: Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi, best known for creating such iconic titles as Rez, Lumines and Child of Eden, is currently not working in a designing position and is instead taking more of a backseat role at the company. Speaking to Eurogamer today, Q Entertainment director Nobuhiko Shimizu explained that the industry veteran has moved into a spokesperson role at Q, while concentrating on academic work. "Right now Mizuguchi does not produce the games," said Shimizu. "He's now more of a spokesperson... He's not developing stuff right now."