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This Quiz Ends With You

Posted Jun 23rd 2008 12:30PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Fan stuff

If there's any publisher that can demand gamers invest more than money and their time into a game, it's Square Enix. Their fans are among the most devoted in gaming.

Now, after many of you hunted down a copy of The World Ends With You, played through the lengthy title. Square Enix wants more from you. They've put up a quiz to test your knowledge on the game. For those of you who have played through, test your knowledge here. Let us know how you score in the comments!

Gallery: The World Ends With You

[Via Go Nintendo]

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Ubisoft bringing us Hell's Kitchen, Price is Right games (... thanks?)

Posted Jun 16th 2008 10:00PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News

And the Ubisoft mehware continues. Siliconera just spotted a listing on the site of EB Games for a game version of long-running quiz show The Price is Right. According to the retailer, the title will be released on the DS and the Wii on September 9th, almost 20 years after the game show made its videogame debut on the Commodore 64. Drew Carey's first appearance in a game is rather more recent.

And that's not all, shovelware fans: Ubi has also snapped up the rights to create a game based on Hell's Kitchen, presumably starring mobile belligerence unit and ego-on-legs Gordon Ramsay. Quite how the company plans to include Ramsay's famously foul language and secure an "E" rating for the game is, as yet, unknown.

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Quiz Magic Academy presents worthwhile trivia on the DS

Posted Jun 16th 2008 8:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News, Imports

Arcades aren't doing so hot in the U.S., but Japanese gamers still love frequenting them and inserting coins into the humble machines. Through arcades, series that most of us in the West are unfamiliar with become super-popular in Japan. Take, for instance, Quiz Magic Academy.

Since popularity often leads to system jumping, it should come as no surprise that the game is making its way to the DS. It's essentially a trivia title, but what makes it so appealing is its eight player Wi-Fi support. Trivia is at its best when you're competing against others and showing off your vast pools of useless knowledge, so this extensive use of online-play is most certainly appealing. Unlike games such as LOL (aka just LOL), though, you can still choose to solo your way through Quiz Magic Academy if you prefer to go it alone.

Other nifty features in this arcade-cum-DS title are that it transmits new questions wirelessly, and also links up to Quiz Magic Academy V, the as-of-yet unreleased arcade sequel.

All in all, it seems like Konami has taken trivia as far as it can go. Well, color us jealous.

[Via Siliconera]

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The long-awaited first screens of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader

Posted Oct 23rd 2007 1:10PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Screens

Go get your "You Might Be a Redneck If" calendar and mark today as the day we finally saw the Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader game. And, if it's possible to be disappointed by Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, that's how we feel.

The two screens we are shown are nothing but text and the game/show's logo. The text in the trivia question is presented as writing on a chalkboard, but uses a typewriter font. At least they didn't try to fake handwriting with Comic Sans or something.

Anyway, the game sounds about right: 3000 questions, and you can get help from five fake children. You also have access to the helpful "cheat" options found on the show. Really, the only difference is that it costs you money, instead of giving you the opportunity to win money.

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Let's play Food Identifying Game!

Posted Jul 26th 2007 9:50AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Imports

Forget all those history, literature, and art questions on Jeopardy. Nep League DS has officially asked the greatest question in the history of game shows: "What is this?" That's right, in Nep League DS, you can compete to test your skill at knowing what different foods are called! There are also other games about dodging a monster by identifying kanji and picking a route on a runaway minecar by answering questions.

The game is based on a TV show that uses a strangely distributed approach to its questions: each member of a team of five gives one character of the answer. We wonder how that will work on the DS? Game sharing? Online? Passing the DS around? Just answering the whole question yourself?

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Bug-hunting game looks like edutainment done right

Posted May 28th 2007 11:00AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Screens, Imports

Insects are huge in Japan. We don't mean in the Mothra kaiju sense, but in that they're very popular. Kids like to collect and battle stag beetles (sound like another popular Japanese form of entertainment?) Therefore, a bug reference guide on the DS seems like a pretty good decision.

Quiz & Touch Kensaku Mushi Sukan (Quiz & Touch Insect Encyclopedia) is our kind of non-game: not only does it provide visual and sound information about many species of bugs, but it also has quizzes and minigames about the bugs, including games based on identifying particular insects by sound and color. Librarians and those training to be librarians will probably agree: more reference books should have games in them.

Gallery: Quiz & Touch Kensaku Mushi Sukan

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Kawashima ditches the DS for the PSP in Europe

Posted Oct 4th 2006 11:55AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

Dr. Kawashima, the jovial floating head accompanying you on your travels through swift mathematics problems and furiously shouting "brew!" at your DS whilst playing Brain Age, has decided to float on over to the competition with Mind Quiz for the PSP in Europe.

Ubisoft, the publisher behind Mind Quiz, looks to bring the same experience to Sony's handheld, sans touch-screen capable and voice-recognizing gameplay. One thing that makes Mind Quiz stand out from its Brain Age cousin is that it will feature online gameplay and mock exams to quiz your mind.

[Via Joystiq]

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This Quiz Ends With You

Ubisoft bringing us Hell's Kitchen, Price is Right games (... thanks?)

Quiz Magic Academy presents worthwhile trivia on the DS

The long-awaited first screens of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader

Let's play Food Identifying Game!

Bug-hunting game looks like edutainment done right

Kawashima ditches the DS for the PSP in Europe

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