Two-player games have come a long way since checkers, backgammon, and Battleship, and today the best of them are just ... snacks and drinks on their play surface, may be annoyed by its sprawl.

Designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi, who had previously worked on games like Rez and Lumines, founded the game studio Enhance, which is responsible for the reinvention of the concept for modern audiences with ...