Nicky Hill gave us a review of Speed Racer, and today I bring you my review of Crosswords DS. Tomorrow, expect another review to end the day with. Each day after that, more reviews! Hopefully, these reviews will make sense. I don’t know how smart it is to write these just before I go to bed! I’ll catch you guys in a few hours. Have a wonderful, fantastic, great Friday morning!

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I’ve always been a fan of crossword puzzles. Whenever I have spare time, I’ll pick up a newspaper and scan for the crossword section (after reading the comics, of course). Crossword puzzles are one of the few pen-and-paper games where I feel like I’m really accomplishing something. You have to have a good vocabulary, a keen-mind for clues, and most important, the ability to write legibly in tiny boxes. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better, more relaxing, way to cool down after a long day. Video games will always be my number one hobby (life?), but more traditional forms of gaming have a special spot in my heart as well. That’s why I always think it’s fantastic when something like Crosswords DS comes along.

A blending of two gaming genres into something that almost anyone can appreciate. Crossword puzzles don’t need any explanation. You read a clue, you write your answers, and that’s that. Take that and put it into video game form, and there’s not one bit of difficulty added to the equation. Things get even better when you have a platform like the DS, which allows for direct script input. As an added bonus, you don’t get your hands covered in that dirty newspaper ink! Crosswords DS isn’t the first crossword collection to hit the DS, with a few other quality entries having beaten Nintendo to the punch. Those games, for the most part, are well put together. Overall, Crosswords DS comes out the champ among virtual crossword collections.

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“We share to some degree the same philosophy as Gamecock. They are a publisher, but they give their developers a lot of interaction and say over the marketing of their titles. We’ll be working closely with those developers because they have a lot of say about these games. We’ve already done a lot with the launch of the first three titles.” - Arne Peters, chief operating officer, CDV

“They (Gamecock) do it more from a production point of view, while we do it more from an execution point of view. It’s a good fit. We’re talking to some other big American publishers to potentially handle their titles in Europe. And we’re talking to European publishers and developers about bringing their titles to North America.” - Christian Gloe, CEO of CDV

As we mentioned in the past, CDV is handling distribution for all of Gamecock’s Nintendo-related titles, plus more. Click here to read the full article.