The Sun Crosswords coming to DS

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Oct 23, 2007 6:50 am PT

Britain gets its very own newspaper-based puzzler courtesy of Mercury Games.

Back in February, The New York Times, although reportedly not impressed with the PlayStation 3, was clearly impressed enough by the Nintendo DS to bring a selection of its crossword puzzles to the handheld.

But now Brits need not wrestle with American spelling, personality names, geography, and vocab. It may not quite be The New York Times, but red-top tabloid The Sun will be following suit and releasing a selection of its very own British crossword puzzles for DS owners this November.

There will be over 1,000 crosswords, each with two sets of clues: one cryptic and one easier "coffee time" set. Crossword addicts will be able to "write" their answers directly onscreen with the stylus. Hints will be available for those who get stuck.

Mercury Games will be publishing, and Atari will be distributing, The Sun Crossword Challenge in Europe for a recommended retail price of £19.99. It has not yet been age-rated.

22 Comments

  • Jezzasaurus

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 7:26 am PT

    The Sun? That's practically a gossip magazine for everyone at home.

    I guess the interface looks OK, but I'd much rather have seen something from The Times or The Guardian, something with a bit of class to it...

  • Shtinky

    Posted Oct 24, 2007 6:24 pm PT

    dimmerwit: I would hardly call the article 'estoeric'. 1) Have you heard about uk.gamespot.com (which shares news with the main site)? 2) The article refers to a game released across Europe (population: 710,000,000). Just because America (population: 300,000,000) doesn't get it doesn't mean it's not important.

    Dude, I'm English. The Sun ain't important, it's trash. And this article is esoteric to the UK audience, yet it's also been posted on the american site, it should be exclusive to the UK one.

  • SHACKR

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 2:26 pm PT

    Yet another game people won't care about.

  • bernieberry

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 1:11 pm PT

    Oh boy my mother ought to love this.

  • piinshot

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 12:59 pm PT

    what is wrong with the Times? The sun is for builders, drivers and cops WTF!!!!???

  • nintendog66

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 12:37 pm PT

    The sun... ok Nintendo it's alright to bring puzzles for the console but from the sun?!?!?!

    @theclaw135

    Can you beat this list with PS3 games?
    LoZ: Phantom Hourglass, New super mario bros, Metroid prime hunters, kirby's squeak squad, Final fantasy III, Yoshi's island, Pokemon D/P, Phoenix Wright, Advance Wars, Mario kart DS, Nintendogs, Elite beat agents, castlevania DoS/PoR, ACWW, Lunar knights, hotel dusk... just to start, against Resistance, heavenly sword and... and... air?

    Along with GBA titles?!?! There's NO WAY ps3 can beat the DS, EVER. Also remember Europe doesn't have BC AT ALL and may I ask how many people use their PS3's for listening to audio Cd's? Lmao

  • dr3b

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 12:25 pm PT

    Not bad, but they should add a feature to enable downloadable games

  • NoEsMano

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 12:23 pm PT

    Eeeeeeew.....The Sun?
    LAME.

  • theclaw135

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 12:04 pm PT

    TBQH, PS3 has a much larger and overall better library than DS.

    Compatibility with PS1 games, PS2 games (aside from 40GB), PS3 games, DVD movies, Blu-Ray movies, CD audio, Super Audio CD, built-in web browser, etc...

    Versus only running DS games, and GBA games minus virtually all functions that involve the link port. The web browser costs extra, and officially Nintendo's MP3 player was only sold in Japan/UK. Not USA.

  • CyberElfSlut

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 11:48 am PT

    that probably be an easy crossword, every answer would most likely be some slang term for breasts

    "Four letters, ends with S, synonym for 'shirt potatoes'."

  • AirGuitarist87

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 11:31 am PT

    Oh dear god. What next? Heat magazine Sudoku?

  • GrimBee

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 10:45 am PT

    I wonder if they have some sort of nudy pic if you win a crossword... that would fit the theme of the sun alright.

    This game won't sell very well - people won't take it seriously. When it comes to crosswords, you need to have official names like "oxford" and things like that for people to take notice of serious sort of games like crosswords.

    These kinds of games are there to challenge your mind, they won't suit everyones tastes, but it sure beats carrying around a giant paper and a pen to get your crossword fix.

    But on another note - they should really lose the whole "crossword" thing and just end up calling them rainy-day-games. Games like word find, naughts and crosses (wireless) would be a good feature to have aswell as crosswords..

    I will try this title out - but if I wanted a serious crosswording session, I wouldn't get my crossword fix from the sun..

  • Thorpe89 Site moderator

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 10:28 am PT

    I would be ashamed to own that on Nintendo DS.

  • Lilac_Benjie

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 9:02 am PT

    "Uh, GameSpot, is that sentence really necessary???????"

    100%

  • AngelCage

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 8:49 am PT

    ...The New York Times, although reportedly not impressed with the PlayStation 3...
    .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

    Uh, GameSpot, is that sentence really necessary???????

    About the 'game': Mehhh bring more crap to the DS (and the Wii too)

  • Bandit_Haze

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 8:40 am PT

    that probably be an easy crossword, every answer would most likely be some slang term for breasts

  • Caviglia

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 7:48 am PT

    The Sun, the most deplorable, racist, dimwitted, ignorant, sexist newspaper in the mainstream press, whose articles are written at the reading age of a ten year-old. Ugh, this filth should not be allowed to pollute gaming. I imagine the game will be something like this:

    1 Down: Football player who looks like Shrek
    3 Across: Colour of [Insert name of 'celebrity' wretch here]'s thong

  • Raeldor

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 7:42 am PT

    The Sun has crosswords? I didn't think people who bought the sun could read.

  • dimmerwit

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 7:37 am PT

    I would hardly call the article 'estoeric'. 1) Have you heard about uk.gamespot.com (which shares news with the main site)? 2) The article refers to a game released across Europe (population: 710,000,000). Just because America (population: 300,000,000) doesn't get it doesn't mean it's not important.

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Oct 23, 2007 7:36 am PT

    Hopefully this will reduce sales of The Sun! Haw haw!

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