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Pirates and musketeers battle card sharks and...Sudoku this week in the once again Virtual Console-less Nintendo download. More »
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The New York Times this weekend started running a new numerical logic puzzle from Japan called KenKen next to their crossword puzzle. More »
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I had only so much time to spend ogling iPhone games at EA’s Showcase – but really, what’s the point of a mobile game if you can’t experience it on the fly? So, in one whirlwind tour, I took in Spore, Scrabble Bonjour, Sudoku and Tetris and now I’m regurgitating for you everything I can remember from the brief blitz. More »
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The iPod may have an impressive install base, with some 67 million units sold, but the game selection kind of sucks. Maybe it's that only a percentage of those are full-size, fifth-generation iPods with screens capable of playing the downloadable casual games. More »
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Good news for the few thousand of you who currently own a PS3 with nothing new to play. Two new additions have made their way onto the PlayStation Store, Lemmings and Go! Suduko. More »
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Forget Counterstrike and its population of 12-year-old aimbot snipers blowing you head off milliseconds after rounding a corner: Natural Selection is my favorite Half-Life mod. Space marines claustrophobically battle insect-like aliens in the dark bowels of dilapidated spaceships and oozing alien hives. Being a combination FPS/RTS, it all tends to fall apart without a good commander, making good games outside of a league play a roll of the dice. Still, if there's any mod I've been looking forward to seeing updated for Source, it's Natural Selection. More »
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Hardware-obsessed big brother site Gizmodo has found the true meaning of "useless." It comes in the shape of a Plug'n'Play Sudoku controller that dishes up puzzle games on your TV. This $30 adapter has Sudoku coming out the wazoo, all at varying levels of difficulty. Of course, you could always do the free puzzle in the newspaper or the internet. But, unlike this product, that would make total sense. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Sudoku inventor Wayne Gould (in the stupid hat) and bikini girl Aki Hoshino (also stupid hat) went head-to-head in a Sony-held press event for the PSP title Kazuo. Gould defeated the 28-year-old Hoshino in the first round. But the idoru begged for another chance and came back and won the second round. What. A. Surprise. —Brian Ashcraft More »
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Either the first week of May is a retail death sentence or no publisher wants their games to be lost amid the impending E3 hype. Regardless, this week is D-E-A-D-dead as far as new releases go. Here is this week's emaciated line-up. More »
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To promote its new Sudoku title, game publisher Hudson Soft held a Sudoku "examination" of sorts in Akihabara. Over a hundred folks sweated it out with only ten players making it to the finals. Winners got DS Lites and game software, while losers got T-shirts. Yippie. A pic of the top three players after the jump. More »
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I just landed a final retail of Brain Age. What a fun game. If Nintendo can get these bad boys in the hands of middle-aged America they're going to open up a whole new channel of consumers to gaming. I'm not saying that this game couldn't be fun for everyone, but it certainly could help tap new markets. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=158698&view=rss&microfeed=true New screens from Sudoku DS, some crossword puzzle game and a jigsaw game for the DS hit the net today. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=156011&view=rss&microfeed=true Sudoku Fever for the Game Boy Advance has hit stores. The first-ever Sudoku game for the GBA includes an infinite number of puzzles and four different grid sizes. The game can also be played with colored symbols or letters instead of numbers. And if you're into cheating, you can use the game to solve Sudoku puzzles from newspapers or books and then leave them laying around in the office to make people think you're smart. More »
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In a sign that the Western world is ready for an onslaught of Japanese brain games, the Oxford Dictionary picked "Sudoku" (single numbers) as the "word of the year." The puzzle originally began when a Swiss mathematician invented a grid-based head scratcher called "Latin Squares." The number puzzle was then retitled "Numbler Place" in the 1970s and 80s, when Japanese puzzle mag Nikoli started printing Sudoku. The game is now hailed as a mental workout and an antidote to Alzheimer's. Last year, my wife was really into this, but none of the Sudoku books she bought ever said "Sudoku" in Japanese on them, but simply "Number Place." Explains a lot. More »
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Here s a great way to waste your day. Don t blame me when it gets you fired. Ultimate Sudoku is a cool little flash version of the painfully popular number puzzle that is popping up in books and newspapers around the world. More »
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