Ankh and Luminator coming to British DS

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Ankh and Luminator coming to British DS

Posted Mar 6th 2007 5:55PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Imports

Xider Interactive, who we previously reported as not actually bringing Sam & Max to the DS, have announced their real DS releases for the UK. The titles, which are probably familiar to German PC gamers but definitely not familiar to us, are:

Luminator DS (May)
Ankh 1 (August)

Ankh appears to be the first in a series of Egyptian-themed adventure games-- and there's no part of that description we don't like. Luminator (PC version shown above), from what we can tell, is ... let's say a faithful tribute to Lumines.

We don't know if either of these games will be headed to the US. Have any of our European friends played either of these? We need to know about the quality of Ankh before we get too excited about OMG ADVENTURE GAME.

[Via Cubed3]

Tags: adventure, adventure games, adventuregame, adventuregames, ankh, ds, ds lite, dslite, german, germany, lite, luminator, lumines, nintendo, pc, puzzle, xider

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1. Hello,
I'm from Germany.
Ankh was originally developed in my country and both games, yes there is a sequel, received good ratings around 80%.
If you want more infromation about Ankh feel free to mail me.

Best Regards
NF

Posted at 6:29PM on Mar 6th 2007 by NightFlyer

2. That /is/ awfully faithful of them. It reminds me of the famed "PuzzLoop" and "Zuma" similarity.

And when I say "similarity" I of course mean "theft."

But hell- lumines on my DS? I'm not complaining. :D

Posted at 8:45AM on Mar 7th 2007 by KilgoreTrout XL

3. I'm with you -- yay for Lumines! But just looking at that picture brings up memories of phantom handcramps.

Posted at 9:20AM on Mar 7th 2007 by Alisha Karabinus

4. Since no one else has said it yet, and assuming we can trust DarkFlyer's comments on Ankh...

OMGADVENTUREGAME!

Luminator? Who needs puzzle games when you have adventure games?

Posted at 12:42PM on Mar 7th 2007 by ConstyXIV

5. Hello again,
I've frogot to link to the official Ankh page, there you can get some additional information about both of the games.
http://www.ankh-game.com/

Posted at 12:32PM on Mar 8th 2007 by NightFlyer

6. Lawyers will block luminator

I guaranty it

Posted at 5:06PM on Mar 8th 2007 by John

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