NY Times Crosswords Coming To DS
Even as PSP shipments tank (10,000 units shipped to North America in the three-month holiday period - I mean, my eBay "buy a used jockstrap" business venture did better than that), the Nintendo DS continues to soar ever higher.
With the success of Big Brain Academy, Brain Age, and any one of several Sudoku puzzlers for the handheld, the DS has proven it's no Fisher Price platform. Adding further intellectual robustness to the DS lineup is New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz, whose collaboration with Majesco has resulted in the forthcoming title called, unambiguously, The New York Times Crosswords: a collection of 1,000 puzzles sure to give you, your daddy, and your daddy's daddy a game to bond over.
Not content to be a mere collection of crosswords, the game has flexible input (either scribbling letters with the stylus or using an on-screen keyboard), progressive difficulty levels and one-on-one wireless battles. If that isn't a competitive language dork's idea of nirvana (and I should know), then I'm a... I'm a... I'm a very poor sesquipedalian, aren't I?
Expect a three-letter Gabor sister to arrive on a DS near you sometime this spring.
Majesco Brings Crosswords to the DS [4ColorRebellion]
[Via: Joystiq]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 1 February 2007
· Comments (6)
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i am SO buying that.
I'll bite. I'm only good through Wednesday and maybe a bit of Thursday puzzles, but so long as it's progressive, it's all good.
Majesco finally did it... they tapped into my purest and most soul crushing addiction.
Now my work productivity will go down even further, but my personal crusade to destroy Will Shortz is advanced. Cries of "DAMN YOU, WILL SHORTZ!" will echo throughout the land.
Good! With that many puzzles, maybe we will get as many sports figures, instead of just Ashe and Ott, Kluszewski and Navritalova !
Yeah, I'll buy it. But the biggest disappointment is the lack of a nintendo developed sudoku. Seriously, after brain age, I am so hungering for a decent sudoku on the DS.
Will Shortz is like a god to me.
How many hours (at work, usually) have a logged doing those damned crosswords?
I will certainly buy it.