Today is the beginning of the week and as the QJ staff struggle to fit through the office door after a long weekend you, our faithful readers and gamers get to come home to a wealth of releases this week. This week we can see some big titles coming to the PSP, Nintendo DS and the original Xbox, but as a slight disappointment to owners of Microsoft's next generation console there will be no Xbox 360 releases this week.

If you find yourself very bored with no new X360 releases this week you may just have to brave it and buy a portable game to satisfy your needs and with plenty of PSP and DS titles hitting the shelves this week you'll be spoilt for choice. Or maybe an Xbox title takes your fancy? Don't worry next generation console fans, with the Wii and the PS3 well on their way it won't be that long until we'll see three next generation consoles on this list! We'll stop teasing you now, here's the cross-console release list for week beginning Monday October 9.

Nintendo DS:
10/09/06 - Clubhouse Games
10/09/06 - Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
10/10/06 - Avatar: The Last Airbender
10/10/06 - Crash Boom Bang!
10/10/06 - Monster Bomber
10/10/06 - Scooby Doo! Who's Watching Who?
10/12/06 - Disney's American Dragon: Jake Long, Attack of the Dark Dragon

Sony PSP:
10/09/06 - Family Feud
10/09/06 - Mortal Kombat Unchained
10/10/06 - Avatar: The Last Airbender
10/10/06 - Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning

Xbox:
10/09/06 Mortal Kombat Armageddon
10/10/06 Avatar: The Last Airbender
10/10/06 Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning

The holidays are fast approaching. And since Christmas is geared primarily to the young 'uns (and kids at heart), game developers are lining up all the kiddie-related titles as early as October. At least parents and their kids will have a healthy choice of wholesome games to play during the holiday vacations.

Here are the games coming out October 9 (hey that's tomorrow!):

Avatar: The Last Airbender - from Nickelodeon's cartoon with the same name. Play as Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph, and save the world from the evil Fire Nation. For those children who are so into the whole martial arts scene... Ki-ya!

Crash Boom Bang! - orangey-furred Crash and the weird gang are back! It's not just a screen scroller, it's also got tons of mini-games to choose from. Expect endless hours of fun. This is also for the peculiar kids who like kicking crates.

Monster Bomber - for the first time, kids don't have to flick boogers at each other for fun! In this game, the players are expected to fling colored balls to the upper screen. Once the right colored ball hits a particular monster, boom! It disappears. It looks like a high paced-game. Recommended for kids who ate too much candy last night.

Scooby-Doo! Who's Watching Who? - We are! The big brown dog and the gang of misfits enter the DS with another adventure. The bad guys won't win because of those pesky kids.

Clubhouse Games - The only game targeting the adult audience. Forty-two games in one. Need we say more? Yeah...a chat feature. A game to play while the kids are sleeping or playing one of the games above.

Don't get us started on our favorite dog and his gang of mystery busters. We are as addicted to anything Scooby Doo as Scooby is to Scooby Snack! We can't get enough of the TV show (although we keep hoping they'd finally bagged real ghosts and monsters and not some guy wearing a costume), the comic books and the films. Of course, there's the upcoming Scooby Doo! Who's Watching Who for the DS and the PSP.

In Who's Watching Who, Scooby, Shaggy, and the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang travel cross-country visiting spooky locations and unmasking classic ghosts. They will also be competing with a rival ghost hunting team GSI (Ghost Scene Investigators). Boo! Hiss! Anyhoo, if you're a Scooby fanatics like us, we're sure you'll be wagging your tails at these just released Scooby Doo! Who's Watching Who cut outs!