Merscom pencils in Sudoku for XBLA

  • By TomM_GScom, GameSpot
  • Posted Jan 31, 2008 12:00 pm PT

A staple of the brain training craze has been Sudoku, a logic-based numbers game where players attempt to fill in a grid while operating under set parameters. While the puzzler has appeared in a number of minigame compilations and stand-alone products on various portable devices, it hasn't made...

A staple of the brain training craze has been Sudoku, a logic-based numbers game where players attempt to fill in a grid while operating under set parameters. While the puzzler has appeared in a number of minigame compilations and stand-alone products on various portable devices, it hasn't made nearly as much headway on consoles.

That changes today, however, as Merscom has announced Buku Sudoku, the first game of its kind for Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade. As it wouldn't be an XBLA game worth its salt without multiplayer, Merscom has added in both competitive and cooperative modes to the puzzler, as well as mixed up the Sudoku formula by creating puzzles of various sizes and difficulty levels.

Buku Sudoku is currently slated to hit Microsoft's online arcade during Q2 2008.

17 Comments

  • ebookerd1

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 9:37 pm PT

    F***K Looks like I'm going to give up on my Sudoku game I have been working on since last summer!!!

  • ChuckNorris82

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 5:09 pm PT

    NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I HATE THIS GAME!!!! Why M$?!!?!??why!?!!?!!?!???!?!

  • paullywog

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 3:31 pm PT

    response to the title: at least pencil's easily erased.

    seriously? sudoku with a joystick? shoot me now. on the ds i understand but i could go print off thousands of sudokus of the web for free, so unless this is free, its worthless

  • Tebbit

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 3:20 pm PT

    "it hasn't made nearly as much headway on consoles."
    So now that its on XBL thats gonna happen?
    Yep, thats not biased at all... though Sudoku in any way, shape or form shouldn't cost me money.

  • iShaidarHaran

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 2:37 pm PT

    Jenova, I find it hard/near impossible to play 4 player on paper. Solving puzzles with friends, family, and sig.others can be quite relaxing. Or you can take it to LIVE and play head to head or team vs team. I had problems playing various PC sudoku games in any co-op fashion, cause players would have to point or take over the mouse, or interrupt with speech. And PiNwOrM is right, any way you play, you're earning achievements, and the controls make for faster entry than writing - really.

  • PiNwOrM

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 2:15 pm PT

    Why waste paper when you can play instantly and easily on the xbox to waste time, and get achievements while at it..

  • jenovaproject

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 2:05 pm PT

    Who cares about this stupid game? Even if you did, why would you play it on anything but paper with a pencil?

    I'll bet you it costs 10 bucks and has 'bonus' downloadable content for 'an additional fee'. Some games that's okay for, like Band of Bugs.

    But a game DESIGNED to be a throwaway printed on paper? Comeon.

  • PiNwOrM

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 2:03 pm PT

    Awesome, I was just thinking that XBL needed sudoku. I could care less about the weird modes, but as long as they'res traditional 9x9 1-9 sudoku

  • Funkyhamster

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 1:51 pm PT

    Why? Why must this evil puzzle fad continue to spread?

  • RawkHawk

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 1:21 pm PT

    Letters? In MY Sudoku?

    Hopefully it will include the 9x9 grid as well.

  • okassar

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 1:21 pm PT

    That's nice for Soduko lovers,it looks like it's good quality too.But the thing is,I don't like Soduko and if I did,I would buy a Soduko book for the same price and it would have like 200 pages.

  • Octagon

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 1:11 pm PT

    I'm interested to see how the multiplayer pans out. I want to play local coop

  • teirdome

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 12:38 pm PT

    Sudoku helped me stay awake during many of my college courses... but I guess that's moot since I wasn't paying attention to the prof.

  • Evilbeav

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 12:32 pm PT

    Stop the presses! Remember, I called GOTY first!

  • yucky_straw

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 12:28 pm PT

    WOW... I really don't care about this.

  • RgvXavi

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 12:24 pm PT

    onizuka:

    your right about the ps3 already having Sudoku. However, the article isn't saying it will be the first Sudoku ever for a console it is simply saying the "first game of its kind FOR Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade." meaning a first for XBLA.

  • Onizuka36

    Posted Jan 31, 2008 12:11 pm PT

    ummm...the PS3 has had Sudoku since it first launched. This certainly looks like a nice addition to XBLA, but I wouldn't consider it anything big.

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