Puzzler DS: Number 2 in the Charts

Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Games news | No Comments

An update to our previous Puzzler report, Puzzler DS has continued to ride high in the charts, reaching the lofty number 2 position during October 2008. This is second only to the all conquering Brain Training. MCV are reporting how Puzzler Collection has helped Ubisoft to be the first company in three years to beat Nintendo’s own software sales on DS. We had no marketing support on Puzzler, despite its success, so it was good to have Ubisoft themselves say as much in public:

“We’ve actually spent zero on marketing Puzzler because the licence markets itself.”

Screen Yorkshire are also reporting on our recent success.

The Nintendo Wii version is due to be released at the end of October.

Tags: casual game, ds, puzzler, ubisoft, wii

Puzzler DS: Top Ten Hit!

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | Games news | No Comments

Tuna recently developed a title based around the Puzzler license across five different platforms, with the first published platform being the Nintendo DS, handled by Ubisoft.

Early sales figures are in, and for the week ending 16th August 2008 Puzzler was at number 9 in the DS chart and number 34 in the All Formats chart (Chart Track UK). To see us above games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Ubisoft’s own massively advertised Imagine DS range has certainly put a smile on our faces. The game has also been selling out in stores across the country.

For those across the pond who won’t know, Puzzler publish most of the puzzle magazines you find in newagents in the UK and across parts of Europe. They sell an astonishing number of copies every day.

The game is very much casual in nature, containing thousands of painstakingly created Wordsearch, Sudoku, Crossword, and Fitword puzzles. It’s an example of a game produced on a modest budget, with visuals based around Puzzler’s standard branding - they certainly won’t appeal to your hardcore gamer.

However, it’s also a game which we knew would have a very wide appeal which is what attracted us to it in the first place. We can’t always be writing arcade games!

For a casual game of this nature, we were also pleased to receive a respectable 7.3 from IGN, a site which generally does not rate these types of games highly.

Further SKUs will be released across Europe and North America later this year.

Tags: casual game, ds, puzzler, ubisoft