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Both titles feature Achievements and multiple modes of play -- in Sudoku, you've got Classic or Lightning mode, while Minesweeper boasts Classic and Speed modes. You can download each by following the links below.

[Thanks, Curtis]

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Perhaps most exciting for homebrew developers, this breakthrough brings the DSi's hardware upgrades (over the original DS) into play. "In DSi mode, the DSi SD card slot is accessible, the whole 16MB RAM is available, and the CPU is clocked 2x higher than DS-mode," Twiizers notes in on post on HackMii.

As of publishing, [see below] the Sudoku game is still available in the North American DSiWare store, but has already been removed in Europe. At the very least, it would be an excuse to throw away that ratty copy of Snakes on a Sudoku, right?

Update: Looks like Nintendo has already removed the game from its DSiWare store in North America as well. Sorry homebrewers!

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>dsdsidsiwareeaelectronic-artsexploithackhomebrewnintendosudokuteam-twiizersFri, 28 Jan 2011 13:30:00 EST<![CDATA[NintendoWare Weekly: Castlevania ReBirth, Pilotwings, Oregon Trail]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/28/nintendoware-weekly-castlevania-rebirth-pilotwings-oregon-tra/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/28/nintendoware-weekly-castlevania-rebirth-pilotwings-oregon-tra/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/28/nintendoware-weekly-castlevania-rebirth-pilotwings-oregon-tra/#comments Nintendo's been on quite the roll recently, providing plenty of content in its weekly offerings -- and today is no different. There are ten new titles to check out, including high-profile downloads such as Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, Oregon Trail and -- finally! -- Pilotwings on the Virtual Console. Head past the break to check out the full list.

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>arcade-hoops-basketballcastlevaniacastlevania-the-adventure-rebirthDSdsiwareeat-eat-fightgame-artsgameloftglow-artisanhudsonkonamimaster-of-illusionmaster-of-illusion-expressnintendonintendo-dsinintendoware-weeklyoregon-trailpilotwingspowerhead-gamesrabbidsrabbids-labskyworkssnessudokusudoku-senseitecmothe-magic-obeliskthe-oregon-trailubisoftvirtual-consoleWiiwiiwareMon, 28 Dec 2009 11:00:00 EST<![CDATA[NintendoWare Weekly: Tales of Monkey Island, Bookworm, The Combatribes]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/30/nintendoware-weekly-tales-of-monkey-island-bookworm-the-comba/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/30/nintendoware-weekly-tales-of-monkey-island-bookworm-the-comba/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/30/nintendoware-weekly-tales-of-monkey-island-bookworm-the-comba/#comments If you thought last week's NintendoWare Weekly update was huge, well ... you'll probably think the same thing about this week's update! That's mostly because Nintendo provides quite the overweight offering this time, with a total of ten new titles available for your post-Thanksgiving download. Loosen that belt and make some room for more by heading past the break for the full list of this week's releases.

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JoystiqNintendoWare Weekly: Tales of Monkey Island, Bookworm, The Combatribes originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>aksys-gamesbookwormchristmas-clixcombatribescopter-crisisdigital-leisureDSdsiwareeaElectronic-Artsfoto-facehudsonjc-games-incmaster-of-illusionmaster-of-illusion-expressmy-zooNintendonintendo-dsinintendoware-weeklypopcappopcap-gamessnessolomons-keysudokusudoku-challengetales-of-monkey-islandtecmotelltale-gamesthe-combatribesvc-arcadevirtual-consolevirtual-console-arcadeWiiwiiwareMon, 30 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST<![CDATA[European Nintendo downloads: Banana fighting street]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/06/european-nintendo-downloads-banana-fighting-street/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/06/european-nintendo-downloads-banana-fighting-street/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/06/european-nintendo-downloads-banana-fighting-street/#commentsFinally, the wait for Fighting Street is over for Europe! We suppose it's timely, given that a new Street Fighter game is in the news now, but ... it's still Fighting Street. The continuation of Tales of Monkey Island should be a bit more welcome, as should the DSiWare Bomberman Blitz.

Manic Monkey Mayhem on WiiWare sounds like it could be great (monkeys throw bananas to knock each other off of platforms), with online play -- but, of course, we always feel guarded about unknown WiiWare games. But monkeys! We look forward to hearing impressions.

As for the rest, Uno sounds like Uno and SUDOKU sounds like sudoku, but louder.
  • Fighting Street (Turbografx-16 CD-ROM, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
  • Manic Monkey Mayhem (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
  • Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
  • Uno (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
  • A Little Bit of ... All Time Classics: Family Favorites (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
  • Bomberman Blitz (DSiWare, 1-8 players, 500 DSi Points)
  • SUDOKU (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>bomberman-blitzdsiwareeuropefighting-streetfridaymanic-monkey-mayhemsudokuvirtual-consolewiiwareFri, 06 Nov 2009 12:10:00 EST<![CDATA[NintendoWare Weekly: Zombies Axed My PictureBook]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/26/nintendoware-weekly-zombies-axed-my-picturebook/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/26/nintendoware-weekly-zombies-axed-my-picturebook/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/26/nintendoware-weekly-zombies-axed-my-picturebook/#commentsOf course Nintendo of America didn't release Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth today. That would have been far too obvious. However, rather than disappointing us with this week's selections, Nintendo actually surprised us with a very welcome, seasonally appropriate Virtual Console classic! Knock on the post break and see what kind of downloadable candy Nintendo is shoving into our pillowcases.

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JoystiqNintendoWare Weekly: Zombies Axed My PictureBook originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>DSdsiwareghost-mansion-partygolden-axeNintendonintendoware-weeklypicturebook-gamessudokutales-of-monkey-islandvirtual-consoleWiiwiiwarezombies-ate-my-neighborsMon, 26 Oct 2009 10:20:00 EST<![CDATA[EA to follow MySims Camera with Scrabble, Littlest Pet Shop on DSiWare]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/21/ea-to-follow-mysims-camera-with-scrabble-littlest-pet-shop-on-d/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/21/ea-to-follow-mysims-camera-with-scrabble-littlest-pet-shop-on-d/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/21/ea-to-follow-mysims-camera-with-scrabble-littlest-pet-shop-on-d/#commentsIn case you think you want a camera app that adds MySims characters to your DSi photos, but aren't sure, EA sent a couple of screenshots of the app in action. It does pretty much what it says, though we didn't expect the MySims images to be so freely positionable.

Along with shots of MySims Camera and Sudoku, EA announced more upcoming DSiWare games. Littlest Pet Shop gets even littler on DSiWare, allowing you to collect and interact with pets, dress them up, and "throw a dance party for your pets and watch them groove to a cool song."

Scrabble will be released as several different apps including Scrabble Classic and Scrabble Tools, a Scrabble-themed vocabulary building game. Apparently, each Scrabble game will be a separate download.

Gallery: MySims Camera (DSiWare)

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Today's highlight is no doubt Revenge of Shinobi, the first Shinobi game on the Sega Genesis. What's funny about this is that the third game in the series on that console, Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master, was released on the Wii way back in 2007. Two-thousand-and-freaking-seven, people! How crazy is that? More after the break.

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You know what, I'm just gonna say it: I love Drop7. I've been evangelizing the game since I downloaded the free "Lite" version two weeks ago -- and subsequently bought the full version for $2.99 -- trying desperately to explain the game's "Tetris meets Sudoku" concept to anyone who'll listen.

Forget about your Super Monkey Balls and Metal Gear Solid Touches -- Drop7 feels built from the ground up with the iPhone (at least sort of) in mind, and easily warrants the same praise that games like Rolando and Word Fu have earned. It's easy to jump into a game and play for as little (or as long) as you'd like, just the way I like my phone-based gaming.

Oh, and before you jump all over me for not playing the game earlier, I'm quite aware that the game came out all the way back in late January, which is like ten thousand internet years. It doesn't matter though, because Drop7 is timeless.

Gallery: Drop7

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JoystiqiPhone It In: Drop7 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nintendo has cracked open the vault of upcoming titles due out later this year, and there's quite a few new titles mentioned for DSiWare. A few we already knew about (Gameloft's Uno and Hudson's Sudoku games were expected), but Prehistorik Man, published by Interplay, is an old SNES game (so Virtual Console we guess?), and there's a working title for a DSiWare game called Six in One Translator. Could you be translating between six different languages on your DSi sometime later this year? There are also quite a few "Domo" games planned -- we're guessing these are games that have to do with the popular Japanese Domo character, though

The full list of publishers, games, and expected release dates is after the break.

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JoystiqNew DSiware revealed: Prehistorik Man, Six in One Translator originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>DSdsiwaree3-2009Nintendosix-in-one-translatorsnessudokuunoTue, 02 Jun 2009 14:45:00 EST<![CDATA[Hudson bringing Sudoku to DSiWare this summer]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/27/hudson-bringing-sudoku-to-dsiware-this-summer/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/27/hudson-bringing-sudoku-to-dsiware-this-summer/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/27/hudson-bringing-sudoku-to-dsiware-this-summer/#commentsHudson has announced that it will be bringing Sudoku to DSiWare in two different flavors. Sudoku Student and Sudoku Master will both be made available this summer at a"very affordable price point." The games will each feature puzzles hand crafted by Nikoli, the Japanese puzzle company.

It's unclear exactly what the differences are between the two titles, though the press release does mention that Sudoku Master features "a class certification mode, which tests advanced players' puzzle solving abilities and rates their skill levels." Sure, Sudoku's getting a little bit tired nowadays, but with the puzzles coming to DSi there's now literally no way to escape them. May as well just give in.

JoystiqHudson bringing Sudoku to DSiWare this summer originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With game applications taking up nearly half the list (12 of 25), the rankings for iPhone apps released this week by internet information company comScore may be aimed at advertisers, but tells us a ton about the newest gaming platform. For instance, of the 15 million iPhone users in the US, 32 percent (nearly one in every three) have installed Tap Tap Revenge, making it the most popular application by an ice cold five percent.

Furthermore, of the 12 game applications listed, 75 percent of them were developed by small startup companies or, in one case, a single individual. Actually, aside from Pac-Man, Hangman, Sudoku, and a version of Solitaire, all the games are original IP, with number one title Tap Tap Revenge serving as the prime example. We're starting to understand why the iPhone dominated the IGF this year and will likely continue to do so for years to come.

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The Virtual Console releases are pretty slim this week in Japan, but still just unlikely enough to show up outside of Japan to make them super interesting. First, Smash Ping Pong, a Nintendo-published Famicom Disk System version of the arcade Konami's Ping Pong. There's something hilarious about playing retro sports games, with their archaic button controls, on the Wii. Maybe it's just us.

The other game is one of the many entries in Falcom's Dragon Slayer series, Legend of Xanadu. It's a "ram into enemies" action-RPG like Ys -- and a side-scrolling RPG like Ys III.
WiiWare in Japan, like in the US, has a sudoku game, though it is a different one. @Simple Series Vol. 2 THE Number Place Neo is part of the super-budget WiiWare version of D3's famous Simple series. Milestone, developers of shooters like Karous and Chaos Field, contribute a poker-based falling-block puzzle game. But the most exciting release is no doubt Kurohige Kiki Ippatsu Wii, Takara Tomy's adaptation of the Pop-up Pirate toy that Chris raved about.

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Japanese developer Compile Heart, which contains members of Compile (who developed Puyo Puyo and just about everything else we have loved) plans to release a three-part (so far) series of puzzle games for the DS, called the Puzzle Mate series. Crossword Mate features Japanese crosswords, Nanpure Mate is a "number place" (also known as sudoku) game, and Oekaki Mate is a picross collection. These, however, differ from other such products in one important way: the puzzles are large. All three collections feature larger playing fields than usual, which leads to things like the nightmarish multi-screen picross puzzle seen in the screenshot here.

And speaking of nightmarish, coulrophobes will be terrified to see the mascot for this series, a clown drawn by Famitsu artist Susumu Matsushita.

Read - Crossword Mate
Read - Nanpure Mate
Read - Oekaki Mate

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Sudoku is one of those cultural phenomena we just don't pretend to get. The seemingly innocuous brain teasers seemed to crop up overnight, reducing commuters the world over into savoring number crunchers. The casual puzzles have found a welcome home in books, newspapers, and even in video games, and publisher Merscom has now announced plans to bring the logic challenges to XBLA as well with Buku Sudoku.

The game, a conversion of Merscom's PC title of the same name, will boast such enhancements as "a very fast entry method" using the Xbox 360's thumb sticks, as well as support for multiplayer over Xbox Live. Buku Sudoku will also sport HD resolution, which to be honest seems wasted on a game about filling out numbers on a grid. That said, if Xbox Live Arcade can manage to make hardcore gamers fall in love with UNO, don't be surprised if your Halo buddies have to cut out early in order to throw down with some serious number counting when Buku Sudoku is eventually released.

JoystiqMerscom to bring sudoku puzzles to XBLA originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TDK Core's DS Puzzler Nanpure Fan & Oekaki Logic Wi-Fi Taiou (DS Puzzler Sudoku and Picture Logic Wi-Fi Interaction) is a pretty simple game design: a bunch of sudoku and picross-type puzzles. And that's fine! People like picross and sudoku.

But DS Puzzler goes beyond the normal self-motivated challenge of these puzzle games by including online rankings for both. We're familiar with this kind of thing in a picross setting, but we certainly wouldn't want anyone to see how, uh, great we are at sudoku. And we're pretty sure we'd embarrass ourselves with these more complicated, colorful picross puzzles too.

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We don't know what caused our feelings about sudoku to change from "meh" to total enthusiasm, but our change of heart coincided almost exactly with the first time we learned about a sudoku game on the NES. Weird how that works out, right?

Only 90 grey-cartridge copies and five gold-cartridge copies of Al Bailey's homebrew NES Sudoku have been made, and all of the remaining copies will be at this weekend's Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, where we would also like to be. The single unsold gold cartridge is going to be auctioned for charity, to someone who has a lot more money for NES games than we do.

[Via Siliconera]

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This week sees the release of some interesting titles around the world, such as the latest in Pokémon for Europe, and Taiko Drum Master DS in Japan. American gamers get to contend with Dynasty Warriors DS. We know some of you are looking forward to it, and some ... well, aren't. But maybe it will surprise us!
  • Chameleon: To Dye For!
  • Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter's Battle
  • Ultimate Puzzle Games: Sudoku Edition
Slide past the break to see what's happening in the rest of the world.

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Nintendo never got around to announcing this new game at E3: a crossword game tentatively called Nintendo Crossword. For sudoku fans, a "crossword puzzle" is a grid puzzle much like sudoku, but with letters instead of numbers, and completely different rules in place of the sudoku rules.

Nintendo's presentation is much more staid than that of its competition, New York Times Crosswords, passing over odd color schemes and Comic Sans-alikes for a traditional newspaper-like display. It's boxy, but good.

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This week's releases might not be all that fabulous to those of us outside of Japan, but at least we're still getting something new to play. Even if it is just another Sudoku game. For us, it doesn't matter much, as our backlog just grows larger by the week, so we're already knee-deep in games that need to be played.

What about you? What will you be playing?

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You know what the DS needs? More sudoku. Because, y'know, there just can't possibly be enough. This week, there's also a new addition to shelves at stores everywhere that shipped too late to make last week's list: Agetec's Cookie & Cream.
  • Platinum Sudoku
  • Turn it Around
  • Vegas Casino High 5!
For this week's releases in the rest of the world, check after the jump. You might want to duck and cover -- the highly-anticipated Doki Doki Majo Shinpan is about to hit!

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Sometimes, a package doesn't really tell you what you need to know about a game -- and it can actually be misleading or off-putting. As tragic as the thought is, the box art for Brain Buster Puzzle Pak falls into that category. Up close, the art is rough, jagged, and looks like it might have been printed in someone's home office.

So is the game also unfortunately bad? Not even a bit -- Agetec's Brain Buster Puzzle Pak lives up to its name and is packed, as promised, with an array of brain-busting puzzles. The puzzle standard, sudoku, is present, but BBPP brings in four other games as well, all presented by a professor who in no way resembles Dr. Kawashima. By that, we mean he actually has a body.

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JoystiqDS Fanboy Review: Brain Buster Puzzle Pak originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When asked by the BBC what the next big Sudoku-like craze will be, puzzle guru Maki Kaji (whose business card reads "Father of Sudoku") points to Slitherlink. The grid-based logic puzzle has all the ingredients of another hit -- easy to learn, straightforward gameplay, and simple rules. Even though it doesn't have the broad appeal of Sudoku, Kaji says it could easily earn the title "son of Sudoku".

In Slitherlink you stare at a grid made up of dots and the numbers 0, 1, 2, and 3 scattered about. Your goal is to join the dots around the numbers using the same number of lines as the number they are next to. The line snakes around the grid like ... a snake. Hudson published Puzzle Series Vol. 5: Slitherlink in Japan earlier this year and the game has received high marks from reviewers, including a 10/10 from Eurogamer.

It isn't known if Slitherlink DS will make its way out of Japan, but thanks to the world wide web and the humans that populate it, a Slitherlink-inspired game has been crafted in Flash, cleverly titled Slither Link.

JoystiqFather of Sudoku says Slitherlink is the next big thing originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It's no secret that we're fans of the kinda games that blend puzzles with ... non-puzzle stuff. The point is, we're all about putting a little action in the middle of our puzzles, so long as it doesn't slow down the act of puzzling. Pretty pictures, neat backgrounds, weird SRPG motifs ... we're okay with these elements. But we're not quite sure about Zendoku. While we're in favor of the idea, the execution leaves us a little, well, puzzled. In the short video after the jump, we get a chance to check out the mechanics in action, and it seems like everything just takes a long time -- and that takes away from our actual purpose in playing. Maybe it's just us, though. Give it a look and tell us what you think.

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Although Picross has been available for a while in Japan, the North American release is coming out on July 30th, and Nintendo had it on display at last week's Nintendo Media Summit.

The premise behind Picross is kind of hard to explain, but I'll try anyway: It's a type of mathematical crossword puzzle with an image-based theme. It kind of feels like Minesweeper at times but kind of feels like Suduko at other times. As you can see from the screenshots below, you are given a grid with numbers on the outside edge. You have to figure out from the numbers what pattern of squares should be filled in on the grid, with mistakes costing you big penalties on your overall time score. Once you've completed the puzzle, you reveal a picture in the pattern on the grid. The larger the grid, the more complex the picture.

You can also make your own puzzles easily; all you have to do is draw an image and the game will turn it into a puzzle for you. If you want more control, you can also create a puzzle by hand. You can even trade puzzles with friends over the wireless connection and Nintendo promises additional puzzles will be made available for download for free, which is always a nice plus.

The game was a lot of fun and the ability to draw your own puzzles was a nice touch. Puzzle fans, look for this game when it comes out on July 30th.

Gallery: Picross

JoystiqNintendo Media Summit: Picross hands-on (DS) originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 28 May 2007 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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http://www.dev-fr.org/index.php?topic=251.0The Nintendo DS is rife with Sudoku releases, both commercial and unofficial. Dress them up with mini-cakes or martial arts if you want to, but it's getting harder and harder for these games to keep us interested with each passing week.

Leave it to homebrew superstar Mollusk to add some life to the number puzzle. As its name implies, Skinz Sudoku allows you to customize almost every visual detail of its interface. Dropping a PNG template into the game's included PAFS.bat file spits out a unique Skinz Sudoku ROM with your graphics. Jump past the post break for some examples of the different themes.

Think of the possibilities! Design your screens with lightning bolts! Replace all of the numbers with Pokémon heads! Scan in a photo of your secret crush with a word balloon that says, "I luv u! Plz date me!" Just don't let anyone catch you locking lips with your DS after staring into his or her eyes for too long. Seriously guys, that's weird.

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Think sudoku is for chumps? Well, Zendoku is trying to change all of that. The game takes the classic numbers-on-a-grid gameplay of sudoku and spices it up with ninjas (and other generic, stereotypical characters)! Zendoku is trying to do to sudoku what Puzzle Quest did to Bejeweled. Is this action-oriented approach to sudoku necessary? Or does it add too many distracting elements in what should be a much simpler game?

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Despite thinking we're pretty smart in general, we're just terrible at sudoku. We know that, conceptually, you can use any nine symbols instead of numbers to play the game, but we never wanted to try that because it sounds pretty confusing. It's a lot easier to glance at a line and see that 4 and 9 are missing than it is to see that walrus is missing.

Majesco's Toon-Doku, then, is a puzzle weapon that can be used to melt our unfortunate psyches. Not only does it have picture-based sudoku, where you line up rows, columns, and squares of little dessert icons, but it has custom "distractors" that block the screen with a drawing of your choice. We feel our Brain Age approaching infinity.

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JoystiqToon-Doku threatens to break our brains originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you've heard that Zendoku is a fusion of sudoku and martial arts, you might have wondered why. We don't blame you; on the face, it certainly seems like an unusual combination, but Pocket Gamer's interview with Zendoku creator Martin Hollis reveals the inspiration behind this unusual puzzler, and much more as well. So what's the story? It's simple, really. "Sudoku needed some ninjas," Hollis said. Frankly, what doesn't need a ninja or six?

Now that the question of inspiration is out of the way, the next logical question is: how does one mix puzzles and action? In Zendoku -- which uses symbols, not numbers -- the puzzle board, if you will, is the field of combat. Completing a row, section, or column initiates an attack -- and those attacks are played out in microgames. It all sounds good on paper, but we'll have to give it a try to see if it's any fun in action. It may be promising, but sometimes you just want to finish the puzzle, you know?

JoystiqEverything you ever wanted to know about Zendoku originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We'll admit it -- when we first saw Sudoku in our local paper, we were a little taken with the simple logic puzzle. When we found a decent touch-screen version included with our copy of Brain Age, we thought it was a nice little bonus. Now, however, when it seems everybody and their brother is trying to cash in with a video game version of the little time waster, we find it harder and harder to care about those little grids of numbers.

That was until we stumbled across the website for Zendoku, an Eidos-produced version of the familiar puzzle for the DS. Zendoku spices up the basic Sudoku gameplay with an RPG-style quest-mode, a two-player wireless battle mode (complete with blockable attacks) and super-deformed martial arts stereotype characters. Sounds a bit like Super Puzzle Fighter II: Turbo to us, and it looks like it has the same potential to spice up an overdone puzzle genre. We'll let you know if it does when it comes out June 1.

JoystiqZendoku set to make us care about Sudoku again originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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That's right, the popular number puzzles are making their way to living rooms across the world, because there can apparently never be enough sudoku. This is an easy choice for the DS -- that's why there's so much of it -- but we're uncertain about the potential fun of Wii-based sudoku. Maybe as part of something else, but as its own game ... we'll see. Not sure how it'll be played out? Never fear, developer Hudson Soft prepared a movie that should serve to answer all those questions.

JoystiqSudoku ... for the Wii? originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We're back with our weekly import release list, After the lack of import games last week, we strike back this week with a slightly less anemic import game release week. Since your PSP plays import games, you might want to pay attention! Onto the week's releases ....

Continued after the jump ...

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How many different versions of Sudoku do we really need? Maybe some of us are just a little slower at solving them, but apparently there is some gaping void of demand for brain-crunching number puzzles. If you've already devoured all available Sudoku like a ravenous beast and are desperate for any puzzle fix, one homebrew artist whipped up a fresh batch over the holidays just for you. Yeah, between pinched cheeks and presents, this guy programmed a (mostly) working homebrew Sudoku game. And here we thought we were doing well not to just pass out on the sofa on our off days. Maybe we need to aim a little higher. That t-shirt project sounds a little easier, though.

Forgive the digression. DSudoku, by Crescent Moon, the homebrew solution for your raging number puzzle needs.

JoystiqBecause there can never be enough Sudoku originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The market may be glutted with oodles of puzzle titles, but there's always room for the right game to slide in. Crave Entertainment's trying to be that ultimate puzzle experience with Sudokuro, which features more than 6,000 Sudoku and Kakuro puzzles, plus a generator that can create more Sudoku puzzles. And all this for a budget price. Hey, when it's only $20, maybe more Sudoku is what you need.

JoystiqBecause more Sudoku is what you need originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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lemme out!PlayStation Store's downloadable PlayStation 3 games catalogue doubled yesterday with the arrival of Lemmings and Go! Sudoku. These aren't exactly huge blips on the radar, but it's good to see Sony adding content, even if it's a sporadic effort.

The updated version of Lemmings, trying players' leadership skills across 50+ levels, is being offered for $2.99 $5.99; the basic Sudoku package tops that. It's free. Additional puzzle packs (bundled by difficulty) are $2.99 a pop. The number of puzzles per pack has not yet been verified, but Sony hopes to offer roughly 1,000 grid variations in all.

JoystiqLemmings & Sudoku appear on PS3 store originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wow, it seems like just yesterday that we were first talking about the new Brain Buster Puzzle Pak that's coming out in February, and already we have crisp new screens filled with puzzle goodness. The background screens are attractive, and not so busy as to distract from the numeric action, and the mostly pastel palette should be easy on the eyes after a few hours of puzzle grinding. Check out a few more screens after the jump!

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JoystiqBrain Buster screens originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Does your brain need some hot puzzle action? Not to fret! Agetec has the answer, though you'll just have to wait until next February to get down with the puzzles. The publisher's latest, the Brain Buster Puzzle Pak is set to bring five different games to the DS: Sudoku, Kakuro, Light Up, Nurikabe, and Slitherlink (aka Fences), all of which were created in conjunction with popular Japanese puzzle mag Nikoli.


[Via press release]

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Zoonami, the Cambridge-based developers, have announced they will be creating a new puzzle game called Zendoku for the DS. Publishing duties for the game will be handled by Eidos Interactive and it is said to combine "exciting puzzle battle action" with Sudoku gameplay. Other details on the title have yet to be revealed, however the press release does confirm wireless multiplayer without elaborating whether said support will include Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connect service or not.

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Bill Amend's FoxTrot is known for its love of video game themes. Today's strip found Jason Fox adding another layer of complexity to the latest pen-and-paper craze, Sudoku, while his sister Paige questions his actions.

Break out your books on calculus, sequences, binary and hexadecimal number systems, logarithms, algebra, geometry and trigonometry and get cracking -- or, if you're lazy, continue reading for the solution guide.

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JoystiqFoxTrot's Sudoku-ometry [update 2] originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This is brilliant.At first glance, you might think we were kidding. We're not. President Bush turns a whole sixty years old tomorrow, and Nintendo of America felt fit to send him a birthday package of their own creation: a white DS Lite, a copy of Brain Age: Train Your Brain For Minutes A Day, and a nice congratulatory letter (read it after the break).

Aside from being absolutely ridiculous (guy at Nintendo who thought to do this, I love you), one must wonder if President Bush will receive the package personally and actually attempt to play a round. Just think! With rigorous training, President Bush may usher in a new era of world peace! Sudoku transcends all cultural barriers.

Marketing genius, Nintendo. I wonder what his initial Brain Age would be... (watches as the commenters rush to post the largest number they know)

Once again, the full letter from Nintendo after the break.

[via GoNintendo]

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JoystiqNintendo sends President Bush DS Lite, Brain Age originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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