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Majesco announced today that The New York Times Crosswords, a game that will feature, wait for it, the New York Times Crosswords. Clever title, huh?
The game, which ships this spring, will feature more than 1,000 crossword puzzles and the ability to handwrite in answers with the stylus. It will also include several modes such as Puzzle Me Quick, Puzzle Week and Challenge Mode. Finally, the game will have some coop and competitive two-player modes.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it will support any sort of ability to update with new puzzles. That would kick ass. Imagine a NYT Crossword game that actually updated with the current, in-paper, puzzles. Oh, well. We all know that Nintendo and online just don't like to mix.
EDISON, N.J., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Crossword puzzle aficionados will soon have a new outlet as Majesco Entertainment Company (Nasdaq: COOL - News), an innovative provider of digital entertainment products and content, today announced The New York Times Crosswords for the Nintendo DS(TM). Developed by Budcat Creations, The New York Times Crosswords will challenge even the most savvy wordplay enthusiasts when it ships this spring.
"The challenging fun of The New York Times crossword puzzles combined with the stylus-based functionality of the Nintendo DS is a perfect pairing from our perspective," said Ken Gold, vice president of Marketing, Majesco. "Handwriting recognition lends authenticity to gameplay while wireless multiplayer offers social players a means to enjoy the game with other fans on the go. The New York Times Crosswords really is the ultimate game for passionate crossword puzzle lovers."
The New York Times Crosswords features more than 1,000 real crossword puzzles and the unique ability to write in answers with the stylus or use a Touch Screen keyboard to enter letters. Various modes of play include Puzzle Me Quick for a fast word fix; Puzzle Week for extended play with progressive difficulty; or Challenge mode with adjustable time and difficulty settings. In addition, the game includes both cooperative and competitive 2-player play so puzzle fanatics can work together or face off in wireless challenges.
For more information about Majesco's exciting line of products please visit www.majescoentertainment.com.
Comments
A waste of time to release a crossword game where you can't update it.
If you could, people would definitely buy it, no question about it.
Yeah, because Nintendo is publishing this...
Oh wait, there are DS online games all over the place. Maybe (just maybe) it could have something to do with the publisher? (It's not like Majesco is living on a mound of money, after all.) Or possibly it could be that the New York Times doesn't WANT to have the crosswords updated.
Think before you post.
Will they be the weeklies or the sunday puzzles? I don't think I could ever finish 1000 sunday puzzles.
My sentiments exactly. If the game had the current, daily crossword, it would be a must-buy. As it is, I have to wonder why I would want this, when I already have more than enough sudoku to give me my puzzle-fix.
Why would you buy this?
1000 puzzles. That's 500 days worth of puzzles during your commute. Roughly 230 - 240 work days a year.
That's more than 2 years worth of puzzles for your commute. Uptodate or not, that's value, IMHO.
it's probably going to be a NYT themed generic crossword. Meaning, an electronic form of those books you can get with 100 puzzles in them. I don't see why some of you think this is a bad idea. For starters, if it is just a bunch of generic cross-words, even if you did one a day, it would take you over 3 years to finish ALL of them. I can see my grandmother loving this. This would be stupid only if they priced it over 20 buckeroos. i'd buy it, it's better than carrying around a book of crosswords.
Anyone finish today's NYT yet?
I'm one letter away. Stupid 34-across.
My Mother has dreamed of this day ever since she picked up a GameBoy Color for Tetris.
I'm afraid she might wet herself.
How is it Nintendos fault? They're not the ones making the game.
Although the ability to update (or play the latest) crosswords online would be cool how does it make this game a waste of time with out it? People buy crossword books with 1000 or less crosswords ALL THE TIME and last time I checked you couldn't fucking update those.
Looking at Amazon.com crossword puzzle books with anywhere from 255 to 500 puzzles go for about $10 to $15 bucks (give or take a few bucks).
If this game costs $25 to $30 it'll even be in the price range of one of those books.
I fail to see where the problem is.
I will say that Majesco should re-consider adding this ability though because it would make the game much cooler, but like somebody else said.. they aren't exactly sitting on a huge pile of cash right now.
Now I know what I'm getting my mom for her birthday! She's always using those books, but the DS is much easier to carry around. Good thinking, NY Times.
About time, ive been waiting for a crossword game ever since sudoku games took off. And though it would be nice to have essentially unlimited puzzles with updatability, most sudoku games have a finite number of puzzles as well and no one seems to complain there.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! I've been hoping for something like this!
Actually, this sounds like a perfect game to take advantage of the twin cart ports. There was a Japanese-exclusive music-based game that had a second set of songs loaded onto a GBA cart. There's no reason why they couldn't release expansion packs of crossword puzzles on GBA cart with the bulk of the game code being reused on the original DS cart. For that matter, though, there's no reason why they probably wouldn't just release a second DS cart, since a GBA expansion won't sell well at all if the original game isn't still available by the time they publish it.
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