Qubed is a video game compilation for the Xbox 360

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

 console composed of music-based games developed by Q Entertainment

Q Entertainment

Q Entertainment creates, produces, and publishes in digital entertainment content across multiple game consoles, PC broadband and mobile units...

, previously available for individual purchase on the Xbox Live Marketplace

Xbox Live Marketplace

The Xbox Live Marketplace is a virtual market designed for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console that allows Xbox Live members to download purchased or promotional content...

. The included games are Rez HD, Lumines Live!, and Every Extend Extra Extreme.

Rez HD

Rez HD is a rail shooter in which the player shoots at upcoming obstacles and enemies by dragging a targeting reticle over them in groups of up to eight, and then releases a stream of laserlike projectiles that automatically track to previously targeted objects. Every action in the game has an accompanying musical queue, which combine rhythmically with the overlying music track.

Lumines Live!

Lumines Live! is a puzzle game in which players arrange falling blocks into larger areas of like-colored blocks. A bar sweeps the playing field at the pace of the current song (which changes frequently in certain modes), completing one sweep with every measure of the song. Combined blocks are cleared out as the bar passes over them.

Every Extend Extra Extreme

Every Extend Extra Extreme (or "E4") is also a timing-based puzzle game, the object of which is to set off detonations at an optimum time to destroy the most targets, which move in the gameplay area in rhythm with the accompanying soundtrack.

Production

Q Entertainment

Q Entertainment

Q Entertainment creates, produces, and publishes in digital entertainment content across multiple game consoles, PC broadband and mobile units...

 is noted for creating games that combine rhythm, color and classic gameplay. Q Entertainment's founder, Tetsuya Mizuguchi

Tetsuya Mizuguchi

is a video game designer and founder of the video game development firm Q Entertainment. He formerly worked for Sega were he eventually became the head of their United Game Artists division...

 previously worked as creative lead for Sega

Sega

, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...

's United Game Artists studio, where he built a reputation for creating music-based games.