Heads up, fans of the Blue Dragon series. We've recently found a press release indicating the Japanese release date for Blue Dragon Plus. Find out when the game will come out (and for how much) after the jump!

AQ Interactive's most recent financial report has shed some light on the company's upcoming games. For this fiscal year, three DS titles (one of which is Blue Dragon Plus), an unnamed Wii title, and four portable games from Xseed are slated to hit North America. More in the full article.

Mistwalker fans better prepare for some disappointment today. AQ Interactive recently announced that Mistwalker's two upcoming Nintendo DS games, Blue Dragon Plus and Away: Shuffle Dungeon, have been delayed.

Find out why they're being delayed, after the jump!

Mistwalker has finally officially confirmed that a Blue Dragon (working title) game is scheduled to come out on the Nintendo DS next year. Though the Xbox 360 version of the game has long been released now, DS owners finally get in on the action.

On top of the V-jump scan from a few days ago, only a minor few details about the coming game have been revealed now, and the folks at NeoGAF have been able the information out. The game is to be developed by FreePlus+ and published by AQ Interactive. In Japan, it's going to come out by March 2008 - no mention of any Western release.

The game is categorized under the RPG genre (could this mean that it's not a card game after all?), but whether it'll be the same kind of RPG system as the 360 counterpart had is yet to be revealed. Right now, no one really knows if it's a remake or a sequel of the 360 version, but what's clear is that the DS version will not be based on the original manga anime.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is in on the project, but strangely, there doesn't seem to be any mention of Uematsu and Toriyama.

Today we've got a lot of Wii and DS news thanks to the Nintendo Retailer Meeting in Japan. Most, if not all, of the news relate to Japanese gaming news, but we can glean a few insights on what could possibly be in store for U.S. versions of the Wii and DS in the near future.

Here's a list of some of the game announcements and dates for the Wii and DS:

• Power of Observation Training (NDS, Nintendo)
• Kazujin Taisen (NDS, Nintendo)
• Ouendan 2 (NDS, Nintendo) - The sequel to the popular rhythm game Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (released as Elite Beat Agents in the U.S.) will include 19 songs including "Go My Way" by hitomi, "POP STAR" by Hirai Ken, "VISTA" by Going Underground and "Real Life Real Heart" by Kimura Kaela.
• DK Taru Jet Race (Wii, Nintendo) - This Paon-developed title was formerly known as DK Bongo Blast for the GameCube. In it, Donkey Kong finds some barrel jets that let him fly in the sky across sixteen courses. The game includes support for up to four players and is set for release on June 28 in Japan.
  
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (NDS, Nintendo) - This title is slated for June 23. It'll make use of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and will have a multiplayer mode where two players can play either Link or the evil overlord.
• DS Origami (NDS) - Coming in June
• Hello Kitty Character Dex (NDS) - 26th July
• Harvest Moon (Wii, Marvelous Interactive) - 7th June
• Negima!? (Wii, Marvelous Interactive) - 14th June
• A.S.H. (NDS, Nintendo) - Mistwalker's game system for this title is reportedly a cross between RPG and strategy, and battles will be multiple turn based. No specific release date for A.S.H. has been announced yet, and it still carries a 2007 release date.
• Kurukin Nano Island Story (NDS, Nintendo) - Kokurin Nano Island Story is another new action RPG title for the DS and may be coming as soon as May 24. According to C3, it's kinda like Pokémon, only in this game you get to raise bacteria and use them to do battle against your rivals.

Suffering from info overload yet? Here's one last piece of news. Nintendo is reportedly working closely with Tomy Toys and AQ Interactive on the development of a new Pokémon arcade game called Pokémon Battrid. It seems this will be Nintendo's answer to Sega's Love and Berry and other similar arcade games.