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SFX-360: Scribblenauts Preview

SFX-360 writes: "As more and more games jump ship from their original 2009 launch dates, the imagine-and-draw title that made a splash at E3 2009 continues to stay on-track for its promised September release. It's not often at all a handheld game earns the title of "Best in Show" at E3, the Mecca of the video game world, all the while raising the bar concerning the capabilities of the tiny DS cartridge. It's hardly a guilty confession on my part to say I'm excited about the game Scribblenauts, as tons of other DS enthusiasts are sharing my anticipation about using the right side of my brain.

The game's scrawled appearance is credit of 5th Cell artist Edison Yan, contributing to the overall minimalistic approach in the game's programming. Without a doubt, Scribblenauts is an incredibly detailed and database-powered game, sporting different animations for everything in its library from boxes to foxes to Keyboard Cat. 5th Cell promises gamers a vast and seemingly endless dictionary of words to use in the game with few exceptions, making the game a free-for-all sandbox title. Scribblenauts was played by numerous paid game testers (lucky!) and again by hardened gamers at E3 with a high degree of satisfaction..."

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10 Words You Won't Believe Actually Work in Scribblenauts

Scribblenauts has long been a series lauded for its wealth of adjectives and nouns. Sometimes, it's astounding to discover exactly how far this can go, and that's why we have gone to the trouble of scouring for the most obscure and curious words that somehow yield results.

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Top Five Puzzle Games You Should Wrap Your Brain Around

Matt from FuzzyPixels presents a list of the top five puzzle games of all time, as well as handing out a couple of special awards.

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Scribblenauts: On the discovery and demise of video game franchises

Having recently found out about Scribblenauts, the fate of 5th Cell is hard to witness.

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DualWielding2981d ago

the problem of scribblenauts is that it just couldn't work on Playstation/Xbox... Nintendo, PC and Mobile was not enough to support the franchise

grashopper2981d ago

Why wouldn't it? Think it would work great with the PlayStation second screen app. Doesn't Xbox have something similar too? Use the phone or tablet to type and the controller to play.

CorndogBurglar2981d ago

I'm not real sure a 2nd screen is even necessary. I've only played the DC Comics one, but they could have easily mapped all of the buttons from the touch screen to a controller to pull up the menus.....