Fresh from the Leipzig Games Convention come these four new screens of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for DS. Link's newest adventure is currently slated for a Q4 2006 release and will feature the obvious touch-screen controls, puzzles, and lots of action.

Controlled almost entirely by the stylus, Phantom Hourglass has Link washed up unconscious on the shores of a mysterious island. He is awakened by the sound of a fairy’s voice, and with the aid of this fairy, he sets off to find Tetra (known to players from Wind Waker), who has disappeared while exploring an abandoned ship.

There's gonna be a whole lot of fairies floating around in November. Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has just announced three new Winx Club titles: Winx Club: Join the Club for the PSP and Winx Club: The Quest for the Codex for the Nintendo DS and the GBA. This will be the first time that Winx Club will make an appearance on the PSP and DS.

Winx Club: Join the Club for the PSP lets players take full control of the Winx Club as they continue their fight against the evil Lord Darkar. Players can embark on the story-based adventure or choose to play mini-games based on obstacle courses, spell casting, and skiing. Players can also trade items via local wireless connection.

In the DS version, Winx Club: The Quest for the Codex, players will experience the game's story through a series of side-scrolling flying segments, using their magical powers to blast stuff all the way to oblivion. The DS touch screen will be used to switch between characters mid-game, allowing players to use each character's unique abilities to solve puzzles and defeat opponents.

If you have a little sister (named Michael, Mark, or Viktor perhaps?) who's into the whole Winx Club franchise, you might think about buying her these games. Release date is November, just in time to avoid the Christmas rush.

Atari released seven new screenshots for their upcoming game Arthur and the Minimoys. The game is based on the movie that will be released at about the same time (directed by Luc Bession) as the game's. The movie, in turn, is based on a book, which was also written by the director.

The game revolves around Arthur and his two friends, Selenia and Bétamèche. They enter the world of the Minimoys and are supposed to save the Minimoys from certain death (some evil guy is going to blow it up or something). Gameplay is about the three characters and their unique abilities. Both in the puzzles and the standard battles you'll have to figure out which of the three abilities you need to use. The game also features scenes from the movie, in which voices of celebrities like David Bowie, Madonna and Snoop Dogg can be heard.

The game will be released on November 24 this year, on PSP, DS, PS2, PC, GBA, and mobile phones.

  
  
 

In a galaxy far, far away LucasArts reveals the box art for LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy game for the Nintendo DS. A comic take on the original Star Wars Trilogy - A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi - it takes you on an adventure as you follow the Rebel Alliance's battle against the Galactic Empire, to the infamous Dark Vader's pursuit of Princess Leia to a Death Star showdown all in classic LEGO style.

This time around in Free Play mode, players can awaken their inner Frankenstein, as they can customize more than 50 new playable characters by mixing and matching body parts. This feature plus by using a game save from the first LEGO Star Wars, gamers have access to more than 100 characters. Other additions include character-specific attacks and maneuvers, Power Brick power-up items, playable mini-kits, an improved two-player camera, tougher puzzles, increased difficulty levels and more.

Atlus USA and Hudson Soft have joined forces to bring the action-adventure game Bomberman Land Touch! to Nintendo DS players. The game is scheduled to be released in early November 2006, so far it has not been rated by the ESRB although an E or E10+ rating is expected.

The game is is a family-friendly action-adventure packed with explosive excitement. In its Story Mode, explore Bomber Island while solving unique puzzles, chatting with rival characters, and engaging in 36 different one-to-four-player “attractions” with action, racing, sports, and other themes. In Attraction Mode, enjoy any of the attractions you’ve unlocked in the Story Mode. In the Battle Mode, play classic multiplayer Bomberman with two to eight players via Wireless Single-Card or Multi-Card Play, or two to four players via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Bomberman Land Touch! Key Features:

• Touch Screen controls. Story Mode and Attraction Mode take full advantage of the Touch Screen and stylus.
• Colorful Cast of Characters. Besides everybody’s favorite, the classic Bomberman, there are tons of interesting characters to interact with.
• Up to 8-Player Wireless Single-Card Play. Attraction Mode and the Battle Mode both support multiplayer action with only one Game Card required!
• Incredible longevity! A 15-hour Story Mode, 36 stages in the Attraction Mode, and 20 stages in the Battle Mode. Bomberman Land Touch! Assets

  

Aside from being launched for PSP, Scooby Doo Who's Watching Who? will also be available for Nintendo DS. The gang from Mystery Inc. will be trying their unscientific methods of ghost detection in this all-new title for Ninty's handheld. The gameplay is loaded with different puzzles and lots of activities that entails outrunning from monsters. This game will see Mystery Inc is going on a ghost hunting contest against rival team GSI (Ghost Scene Investigators).

THQ now presents us with three screenshots of the game and the packshot for Europe. Scooby Doo Who's Watching Who? for DS will be released on October 3, along with the PSP version.

After waiting several months for this homebrew game, a demo is finally available from Lupi. Lupi made and released this demo for Z3 (A Zelda-fan expo) as he was asked if he could. Now, this demo is much further along then many PSP homebrew demos/betas, so I was very impressed by its overall quality. The level design was perfect from what I played of it, taking advantage of both the Zelda strategy/puzzles and adding some new things not found in Zelda games before (jump mushrooms).

Overall, this is a great homebrew game, and I can't wait for the full release! So, you can download the demo below and go through a full tutorial and 3 sublevels with a boss. I love the side-scrolling action for this title, something of which we haven't seen in many Zelda games for quite some time. Lupi also uploaded a gameplay video of the entire demo on Youtube which can be viewed below!

Download: [Homebrew Zelda Demo]

We all love cute games, don't we? All the more if they are cute jigsaw puzzles with cute kitties and puppies. Hudson has decided to put two and two together and made new games with enough cuteness for us to enjoy. The games are Koinu Mekuri and Koneko Mekuri, which roughly translates as Kittens Rolling Over and Puppies Rolling Over.

The game basically involves lots of cute kitty and puppy pictures made into jigsaw puzzles you need to solve. There are four levels to the game wherein the puzzles become more intricate than the last. You can solve from 20-piece puzzles, to something more detailed such as a 100-piece. puzzle. If you have a thing for jigsaw puzzles as well as for cute little dogs and kitties, this might just be the game for you to waste your time with.

With all the hype about Brain Age lately, it should be no mystery to folks what Sudoku is. Sudoku is probably one of the most popular number puzzles out there, and game developers are riding the waves of Sudoku's fame. So here's another numbers game for all of you: Nemurenai Yoru to Puzzle no Hi ni wa, which roughly translates as Sleepless Nights and Puzzles all Day by Nintendo. 

The game has about five types of Sudoku puzzle games that you can enjoy. First is the basic Sudoku game which makes you link numbers from 1 to 9. The other four games include variations of the Sudoku game. One puzzle requires you to put in numbers to form a picture while another one requires you to link one number to the next. One of the harder puzzles is limiting the sum of the numbers you connect to a particular number.

Four people can play within the game and have a competition on who'll get to solve the puzzle faster than the others. This is definitely the game to get for Sudoku enthusiasts who can't sleep unless they get their numbers right.

This game will be released in Japan come September.

Q Entertainment and NAMCO Bandai announced that Gunpey-R for the PSP and DS (take note that its title for the DS is Oto wo Tsunagou!) is heading to retail shops in holiday 2006. The game features exciting and innovative challenging puzzles that can only be expected from the legendary Gameboy creator Gunpei Yokoi. It will test your reflexes and dazzle your senses with the combination of dynamic music and colorful graphics.

Based on the 1999 Wonderswan puzzle, the creative minds at Q Entertainment combine groundbreaking music integration that will purportedly excite both the hardcore and casual gamers.

In Gunpey-R, as lines of various angles climb up the screen, you have to flip the lines located in squares to connect them over five columns. If an incomplete line reaches the top of the screen, the game is over. The game features 40 varied backgrounds and stylized music - a known trademark of the game's executive producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi. It supports two-player multiplayer over wireless ad-hoc connectivity.