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Armor Picross has to change name

April 1st, 2010

I’ve (well, Armor Games to be exact) recently received a letter from Nintendo kindly letting us know that ‘picross’ is a name registered by Nintendo Ltd. What the…? I really didn’t know that, I always thought picross (notice I don’t use a capital letter there) is the name for the traditional Japanese puzzle games just like griddlers, paint by number and nonogram puzzle is.

Well, I don’t want any trouble with Nintendo (love!) so time to change the name…Any ideas? The best idea will win the deluxe version of Armor Picross…which won’t be called Armor Picross but the name you thought of! I think the title should include the word Armor, it’s good advertising for Armor Games and I don’t think they’ll want to change that so make sure your title is Armor… or …Armor.

Post your suggestions below or e-mail to contest@kenney.nl!

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Replies

Mike says:

1st april :p

Kenney says:

I wish, no this is serious business I got the letter 31th of March so I guess Nintendo is pretty serious too.

Ralph7 says:

Armor Pickaxe.

Maikel Steneker says:

What about the obvious “Amor Picture Crossword”?

nick says:

since this game is technically called nonograms…you could have a play on words sorta and call it yayagrams.

Brucie says:

I think Armor Logic would be cool

gabs says:

Armor Suckies
A homage for their business dept.

John says:

Yes, this is sorta unrelated, but whatever happened to the Pixross game anyway?

Kenney says:

Oh don’t worry about Pixross John, we’re still planning on making that.

Ifechukwude says:

have you thought of naming it armorcross?

gspawn says:

I think some cool names would be:

Armor CrossPix
Armor Enigma
ArmorGrid
Armor PixelPix
Armor FigurePic
Armor StarPic

Just some suggestions. Hope you pick one of mine so I can get the deluxe version.

Nathan says:

Armor Hoover

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