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During my first 25 years playing video games I had no theory about what makes a video game good. I knew the good ones when I played them. I just felt it.

There have been gamers who've hacked games to ask their special someone to take the plunge, but how many game studios have decided to lend a hand in popping the question?

It was the hot, sticky summer of 1990. Japan's bubble economy, the period of rapid growth during the 1980s, would be over in a year, but Japanese gaming showed no signs of ending its dominance.

Kyoto's Q-Games, the studio behind PixelJunk and a whole host of wonderful titles, is auctioning off a signed ThinkGeek t-shirt for "Play for Japan". The whole PixelJunk staff autographed the shirt!

The stylish, HD-retro PixelJunk games are among the highlights on the PlayStation platform. But another cult favorite, Demon's Souls, beat the series to its latest clever innovation.

In an interview with Develop, Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert discusses the "fundamentally broken" games funding model, saying it is geared towards "making publishers stinking rich."

Kyoto-based developer Q-Games has brought its home console PSN PixelJunk experience to the PSP with PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe. It's a first for the company, and perhaps, a last.

It's a regular occurrence. Open my email, and time after time, there the question is, staring me in the face: How do I work in Japanese gaming?