Touted as the game for the braniacs, Crave Entertainment's Puzzle Challenge: Crosswords and More! makes a late debut today. This collection of more than 1,000 crossword puzzles, word searches, and other brainteasers for the PS2 and PSP was supposed to debut last month.

Offering more than 200 hours of gameplay, Puzzle Challenge: Crosswords and More carries an MSRP of $14.99 for PS2 and $19.99 for the PSP.

This looks like a busy week for the PSP this week as five new games and three new movies are hitting the console. The games coming out this week are FIFA World Cup 2006, Field Commander, Lemmings, Monster Hunter Freedom and Puzzle Challenge: Crosswords & More! The UMD movies that are being released this week are 'Donnie Darko', 'Ikki-Tousen Vol. 1: Legendary Fighter' and 'The Boondock Saints'.

FIFA World Cup 2006 is the update to FIFA 2006, but this time focusing on the World Cup tournament. Field Commander is a turn-based strategy game that features 3D environments and 15 army divisions. Lemmings is the newest version of the popular puzzle strategy franchise. Monster Hunter Freedom is based on the Monster Hunter G game for the PlayStation 2 but made to be portable. Puzzle Challenge: Crosswords & More! is made up of crosswords, code breakers, puzzles with cryptic clues, diamond shaped puzzles, backwards puzzles and word searches all packed up in a UMD disk.

'Donnie Darko' is a story of a average misguided teen who is told one night that the world will end in 28 days and time travel fits in there somewhere as well. 'Ikki-Tousen' is an anime series that tells the story of a war between Fighters, a group of high school students destined to battle until one emerges as the Ikki Tousen. 'The Boondock Saints' is a movie about two Irish brothers who wind up taking out a couple of Boston's mafia members.

So go ahead and check out some of the new releases if you need something new to play on your PSP this week.

Contrary to popular belief, games aren’t all bang-bang, shoot ‘em up, slice ‘em down, monster blood-and-guts gore fest. If you look hard enough, which we did, you may come across genuine mind-expanding games for your PSP. Puzzle Challenge: Crosswords and More! (Crave Entertainment ) is a repository of more than 1,000 crossword puzzles, word searches and other brainteasers of varying degrees of difficulty to suit your IQ. There are codebreakers (you have to determine the number matches assigned to each letter of the alphabet) puzzles with cryptic clues, diamond shaped puzzles and backwards puzzles where you fills in your own black squares. The PSP version has a two-player game sharing mode that enables two people on separate handheld consoles to play the game via wireless connection using one disc. Profiles can be set for multiple players so that the entire household can use the software.

For some reason we failed at finding any screenshots for this puzzling new game. Anyway, Puzzle Challenge: Crosswords and More! hits the store this April 2006. When it does, be there early, it could be the blockbuster of the year. (But don't take our word for it.)