Portable Gaming Revolution

Nintendo has decided to take the money-printing abilities of the DS Lite and put them to good use. They have paired up with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity and released a limited edition DS Lite. While there is no word on exactly how limited the edition is, I think it’s quite beautiful: [...]

So now it’s official.  The North American DS gamers crowd will finally be joining the ranks of those in Japan, South Korea and Europe in receiving their nice and shiny new Metallic Silver DS’s. This will be the seventh color that becomes available to us in North America, joining the veritable rainbow of colors as [...]

Activision has officially announced that their latest title in the Tony Hawk series of games will be called Tony Hawk’s Motion and it is coming out for the DS.  There are a couple of surprises in the announcement of the game: it is not only a skateboarding game, and there will be a motion-sensing peripheral included. For [...]

  Jagged Alliance is a tactical RPG series that first saw the light of day in the mid-to-late 1990′s on the PC. This game was originally announced quite some time ago, but disappeared off the radar when the publisher, Strategy First, cancelled all of the DS titles that they had in the works.   The good [...]

Overlord, as a series, was most recently released for PC and Xbox 360 back in 2007 and PS3 in 2008 by publisher Codemasters. It has a lot of Pikmin-like elements in it’s controls, but that is where the comparison has to end. The game itself is quite a bit darker in subject matter, where you play [...]

  Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? used to be an absolute favorite game of mine as I was growing up. I couldn’t count the number of hours I spent playing both the original and Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego? on my parent’s old 486 computer in the basement. The news that Carmen Sandiego will hopefully [...]

  Electronic Arts has announced a new puzzle/adventure game that is being developed for the DS, slated for release early in 2009. Titled Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, it looks to bring some unique aspects as it combines platforming adventure elements along with puzzle solving. Both screens of the DS will be utilized: one [...]

Two years ago, Nintendo released a limited edition Onyx DS Lite branded with images of the Diamond and Pearl Pokémon (Dialga and Palkia) on the front.  It was originally only available at Pokémon Center retailers in Japan, but the good news is that it will be released in the United States on August 17th! When [...]

It’s no secret that BioWare is making their first foray into the handheld market with the upcoming release of Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood for the DS, due out at the end of September.  The company is best known for their epic RPG’s for both PC and consoles, such as Neverwinter Nights, Baldur’s Gate and Star Wars: Knights of the [...]

Cherry Tree Lane is a new brand being marketed by Koch Media UK, with their focus being entirely on making gaming a family affair, promoting family values and teaching children to use their imaginations with both the DS and Wii.  Their target audience lies mainly in the 6-12 age group, specifically girls. There are four [...]

It looks like the murder mysteries will be abounding aplenty on the DS in the coming months. Unsolved Crimes put a bit of a unique twist on the genre though, placing you in 1970′s New York City as a rookie homicide detective. Coming out from publisher Empire Interactive, they are advertising a whopping eight independent [...]

  I have many happy memories of coming home from school to plop down in front of the tv to watch some Transformers before dinner. Unfortunately, this is one of those iconic shows that doesn’t hold up well to the test of time. I recently tried to watch the old cartoon but ended up shutting [...]