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Get Artsy in Art Academy Lessons for Everyone and Solve Word Puzzles with Crosswords Plus
REDMOND, Wash.--(October
1, in the year of our Lord 2012)-- Today’s launch of
two new software titles will have people broadening their
artistic horizons and deepening their love of creative wordplay.
Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! and Crosswords Plus are now
available for the portable Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL
systems, giving consumers a variety of fun ways to learn about
how to draw and paint or challenge their puzzle-solving skills
anytime, anywhere.
“Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! lets everyone learn about
how to draw and paint creatively, regardless of their current
skill levels,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s
executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “And Crosswords
Plus is a blast whether you’re a vocabulary enthusiast or just
love solving word puzzles. Both of these new titles offer
something for everyone, whether you consider yourself a
traditional gamer or not.”
With Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone!, people of any artistic
skill level can learn to unleash their imaginations using
varying painting and drawing techniques. The skills learned can
be easily transferred to real-life art projects. An in-game
tutor guides users through more than 30 new lessons covering
numerous concepts, including techniques for paints, pastels,
sketch pencils and colored pencils. Each lesson can be completed
at users’ own pace and paused for later completion. Art Academy
also features Free Paint mode, which encourages users to let
their creativity run wild. Players also can take photos using
their system’s built-in camera and use those images as the
subject of a new drawing. Users can also purchase additional
lessons from within the game to further hone their artistic
skills. There are two lesson packs available at launch with
additional lesson packs available in the future.
Crosswords Plus lets users try to solve more than 1,000
professionally designed different crossword puzzles at a variety
of different skill levels. Players use the touch screen to input
their answers, and a helpful hint system will give clues or fill
in letters when they get stuck. Crosswords Plus also includes
word-search and anagram puzzles and a vocabulary-building Word
of the Day feature. Additionally, with giant-sized puzzles,
players will feel more like they are working through multiple
crossword puzzles at a time. Players can also use a broadband
Internet connection to access additional puzzles via SpotPass.
They can even receive and share puzzles with other Nintendo 3DS
owners using the built-in StreetPass feature. In the U.S. and
Canada, players can also receive exclusive puzzle distributions
from a Nintendo Zone location. Nintendo Zone locations offer a
free and automatic connection to Wi-Fi and can be found by
visiting
http://www.nintendo.com/3ds/nintendozone.
Shoppers can purchase both packaged games as usual at retail
locations nationwide. Or they can simply purchase and download
the game on their own from the Nintendo eShop using a wireless
broadband connection. Regardless of the purchasing method, both
Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! and Crosswords Plus sell at a
suggested retail price of $29.99 each. Also, Club Nintendo
members who purchase either of these games through the Nintendo
eShop and register them before Jan. 6, 2013, will receive a
download code for the Donkey Kong: Original Edition game for
free. This is a special version of Donkey Kong with content
never before seen in the U.S. and is not available for purchase.
Remember that Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL feature parental
controls that let adults manage the content their children can
access. For more information about this and other features,
visit
http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.
For more information about Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone!,
visit
http://artacademy.nintendo.com. For more information about
Crosswords Plus, visit
http://crosswordsplus.nintendo.com.