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Scribblenauts doodles out 1 million

Warner Bros. and 5TH Cell's award-winning puzzle-platformer for Nintendo's handheld achieves platinum sales; Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter hits same milestone on Wii, DS.

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5TH Cell's puzzle-platformer Scribblenauts for the DS has had no shortage of critical praise heaped upon it, even before it came out. The game earned Best Original Game and Best Handheld Game as part of the post-Electronic Entertainment Expo Game Critics Awards, and it was also named Game of the Show as part of GameSpot's E3 2009 Editors' Choice Awards. Scribblenauts is also up for Best Handheld and Innovation awards as part of the 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards.

Elephants can and will wield rocket launchers in real life.
Elephants can and will wield rocket launchers in real life.

Now, Scribblenauts has commercial success to match its approbation. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today that the DS game has sold more than 1 million units worldwide since its September 2009 debut.

The object of Scribblenauts is to help protagonist Maxwell acquire a star in each of 200 different levels. To do so, gamers are able to summon thousands of objects and creatures, all of which work more or less as they do in real life.

In August, 5TH Cell said that it would be shifting its focus away from the DS and toward console development following the release of Scribblenauts and Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter. (The game, which was also released on the Wii, has sold over 1 million units to date.) The Bellevue, Washington-based development house then revealed in October that it is working on a "pretty big" project for Xbox Live.

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@ ebonyflame Then I don't understand ur point there. And thanks for the spellcheck advice. @frankblack789 Thanks for the correction, I knew something was wrong there xP

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Pretty boring game in my opinion. But congrats to them anyway.

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i thought they would move on to wii forget about xbox live, unless of course they are planning a game with guns and boobies and bigger guns and bigger boobies then it wii be a hit on xbox live.

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That game has the honor of the only console game that has ever crashed on me. Awesome game though.

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@eldin4444 Yeah, I played it. I own it. I loved it. Use spellcheck.

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@ eldin4444 "sequel"

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This game is awesome , sure the controls are a little weird but u get use to it, I personally love it. I hope they make a secuel. @ebonyflame Have u ever played the game? I guess u do cuz u talk like u played it a lot.

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scribblenauts is a sick ds game very original idea

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Most of the fun I've had with this game has been in the sandbox mode alone! Definitly pick this upp.

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@ebonyflame: scribblenauts is not a series, it's an original IP. Maybe you refer to Drawn to Life. But that still is a small franchise.

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This was one of the best games I have played in a long time for the DS.

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What's that? Another franchise on one of the tech inferior Nintendo systems selling a million plus? Man, those fanboys are gonna have a lot to say now.

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Xbox live? God damnit..

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Half flaming *****, half sparkling diamond forged by God. We get it. Hopefully excellent sales will communicate to 5th Cell to refine the sequel. Also, I'm sure everyone would like it 3D still. :)

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It didn't say how many units were returned though... If they make a new one, and the reviews say the gameplay is no longer terrible, I WILL buy it, but as it is now...

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HOT DAMN!

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ok

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Great job 5TH Cell! So happy that the consumers and critics agreed on a good game!

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In an industry where the name of the game is typically sequels to well-established IPs and playing things close to the "norm" it's great to see a developer being successful with products that are outside the box and aim to be as creative as possible. Much-deserved success to 5TH Cell, and I hope their console-related endeavors are just as original and successful for them. :)

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Good news. Now give us a sequel and fix some bumps!

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Great game.......love INNOVATION........give me more.

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that game was incredibly buggy. good idea though

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Great game keep it up

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It was an interesting idea, here's to an improved sequel.

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I like how it uses creativity like Little Big Planet.

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Manbearpig is in the game!?!? Oh man I have to stop using my DS to play Mario Kart and GBA games And pick this up

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If they do make a sequel, I hope the controls will be tweaked.

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Good game, bad controls, but still a good game.

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Dispite having the worst controls for the DS this game is really good

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This game is awesome (also, please learn proper English, dendro). Glad it it's had so much success in spite of idiots like dendro here who don't "get it".

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this game have terrible controls

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