More evidence of a US release for Picross DS

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More evidence of a US release for Picross DS

Posted May 17th 2007 3:00PM by JC Fletcher
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The cat is slowly emerging from the bag, it would seem. We knew that Picross DS was in Gamestop's computers as a July release, and now the ESRB has pretty much confirmed it by rating the game.

Just think, this summer we could be filling in squares and making pictures just like they do in Europe. Well, you could be. Availability isn't the issue for us; being able to buy the game isn't going to magically make us less awful at Picross.

[Via Siliconera]

Tags: ds, ds lite, DsLite, esrb, europe, lite, nintendo, nintendo ds, NintendoDs, picross, picross ds, PicrossDs, puzzle

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5-17-2007 @ 3:29PM

RDX said...

Remind why this game is such a big deal? Is filling in little boxes really fun or something?

5-17-2007 @ 3:46PM

Saphion said...

It's oddly addictive...

5-17-2007 @ 4:05PM

TravistyOJ said...

If you want to play this game, just import it. the puzzles just use numbers, so it's not like u need to know japanese.

5-17-2007 @ 4:09PM

Ralph said...

the pic made me spew water allll o'er

5-17-2007 @ 4:31PM

ConstyXIV said...

@1 RDX:
See http://www.touchgenerations.com/enGB/games/picross/how_to_play.php .

5-17-2007 @ 5:42PM

Oneiromancer said...

There are several excellent online "picross"-type games as well. http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/index.html is one of the classics, http://www.griddlers.net/ is another, and both are very free. And actually recently I tried Descartes Enigma ( http://www.kaser.com/descart.html ) and discovered that I really like the way the user interface shows different numbers in the rows or columns to help you use numerical logic better.

Of course none of those are really portable without a laptop, which is really the whole point of Picross DS. However, if the puzzles are all limited to 10x10 through 20x20 or so, I'd rather do one of the other choices listed above.

5-17-2007 @ 9:19PM

Kefka said...

Hahahaha, that pic is the worst pun i've seen in ages!

Good job guys.

5-17-2007 @ 10:13PM

hvnlysoldr said...

A pun! Now I got it. PIkachu maCROSS. I'm so used to it being Robotech and still didn't recognize it.

5-20-2007 @ 9:11PM

room88 said...

@Oneiromancer

The size of the puzzles go up to 25x20.. pretty large. And the themes of each puzzle (coring an apple, tearing paper, bullet holes) make this title A+

6-23-2007 @ 9:10PM

Mary McLinden said...

does anyone know what is going on w/ pbn.homelinux's server? or when it might be coming back?

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