FROM DRILLER TO DIGITS: SONY’S PS3/PSP NUMBER PUZZLER QRUTON

In other new overseas surprise announcement: after creating Namco’s original Offworld favorite action/puzzler Mr. Driller and moving on to Sony to work on that company’s own excellent Ape Escape series, director Yasuhito Nagaoka has been reunited with Driller designer Kaori Shinozaki for Qruton, a new puzzle game coming in June for both PSP and the PS3.

Beneath its cute-goth exterior lies an interesting take on number puzzling, with grouped digits rolling forward (or, with fours, back to one) and marked to explode if they lie next to similar digits, with a minorly brain-bending entire-screen combo viewable in the trailer above.

Sony’s been less consistent with bringing PlayStation Network exclusives to all territories, or at least in a consistently timed manner, so it’ll be a waiting game to see if Qruton makes the jump to the U.S. and UK stores.

Qruton [Sony, via andreasang]