Nintendo's 'And-Kensaku' turns Google searching into a game
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Posted on: April 02, 2010
Nintendo has since renamed the video game to And-Kensaku, opened a website (earworm warning!) and announced a new partner for the search engine: none other than Google. Using a set of 10,000 words provided by Google on the disc (with more available by going online with the video game), players will compete in activities like guessing which words are more popular, doing "and" searches with given words and your own words and using the number of results to add stairs to a staircase as you climb it, and passing a bomb around that explodes in the hands of the player with the fewest search terms. Yes, it's really, really strange.
And-Kensaku will be released in Japan on April 29. There's no word on an international release, though it's entirely possible that Nintendo of America will bring it to E3 and then never mention it again, like Line Attack Heroes.
[Via Andriasang]
Nintendo's 'And-Kensaku' turns Google searching into a video game originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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