Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki
Publisher: Nintendo of Japan
Developer: HAL Laboratory
Genre: Action RPG
Release Date: 03/10/2010
While here in North America we have been celebrating the release of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, Japan has been enjoying their own Pokemon release this week – that of ポケモンレンジャー 光の軌跡 AKA Hikari no Kiseki, AKA Pokemon Ranger: [...]

Tropico 3
Developer: Haemimont
Publisher: Kalypso Media
Genre: City Building
Release Date: 2/16/10
Has winter got you down?  Well, spring has almost sprung.  But if you can’t wait, you can dive into the city simulation, Tropico 3.  City sims are not as common on consoles as they are on PC.  There are very few offerings of this genre on the [...]

Lunar: Silver Star Harmony Limited Edition
Genre: RPG
Developer: Game Arts
Publisher: Xseed Games
Release Date: 03/02/10
Lunar, or more specifically Lunar: The Silver Star, in all of its different incarnations, can quite rightly be considered a “classic” by RPG standards. Anyone who considers themselves a fan of Japanese RPG’s has some version of the game somewhere on their list [...]

Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: Gearbox Software
Genre:First Person Shooter/Role-Playing Game
Release Date: 02/23/2010
Once again we are being brought back to Diehard GameFAN’s pick for best first-person shooter for 2009, Borderlands, with another DLC.  So you tackled the vault?  You shot a bunch of zombies in the head on Zombie Island? You may [...]

Pokemon Heart Gold & Soul Silver
Developer: Game Freak
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Turn Based RPG
Release Date: 03/14/2010
Well, it’s finally here – the day I know most of our readers have been waiting for: the release of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver. As most of the audience here at Diehard GameFAN know, I’ve had copies of Pokemon Heart [...]

Alice in Wonderland
Publisher: Disney Interactive
Developer: Disney Interactive
Genre: Action/Adventure
Release Date: 03/02/2010

Bermuda Triangle: Saving The Coral
Developer: North Pole Studio
Publisher: Storm City Games
Genre: Puzzle
Release Date: 02/23/2010
One of the most popular style of the puzzle genre is the match three style. By that I mean areas are cleared by matching similar colored objects off of a game board. Just on the Nintendo DS you can find [...]

Age of Zombies
Developer: Halfbrick Studios
Publisher: Halfbrick Studios
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/25/2010
When we first got a chance to review this one, I kind of shrugged my shoulders and poked around and wasn’t all that impressed with the screens. It falls under the Minis category for PSP and PS3 games, which means it can’t be all that [...]

MYST
Publisher: Storm City Games
Developer: Hoplite Research
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: 02/09/2010
MYST doesn’t really need an introduction. It’s a series that has been around for almost as long as I have been on this Earth. During its long tenure, it has spawned multiple sequels and a few remakes. In particular, one of these remakes was of the original [...]

Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape
Genre: Action/Survival Horror
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Release Date: 03/03/10
As we mentioned last month, I’m a huge fan of Resident Evil 5, and I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of the two expansion packs announced by Capcom for the game. Though both of these expansion packs, as well as two costume packs for Chris [...]

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: 02/16/10
The Ace Attorney series has garnered quite the following ever since the release of the first game on the DS outside of Japan. Of course, the games used to be more commonly referred to as Phoenix Wright, but that had to be changed when Apollo [...]

Calling
Publisher: Hudson Soft
Developer: Hudson Soft
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: 03/09/2010
Horror games have a lot of parallels with the RPG market. Both were started in the west. Early US RPG’s were things like Ultima, Wizardry, The Bard’s Tale the SSI Dungeons & Dragons video games and so on. Early horror games included Haunted House, Uninvited, Shadow of [...]

Risen
Genre: Action RPG
Developer: Piranha Bytes
Publisher: Deep Silver
Release Date: 02/22/10
Risen has a lot working against it as an Xbox 360 game. For one thing, it started its life as a PC game, and while some genres convert from PC to console easily (FPS titles for instance), action RPG’s can be rather complex to convert, if for [...]

Heavy Rain Chronicles Episode 1: The Taxidermist
Publisher: Sony
Developer: Quanticdream
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: 03/05/2010
Heavy Rain Chronicles is a downloadable series of games that continues the look and feel of Heavy Rain. The first episode is currently only available to people who preordered Heavy Rain and I have to admit, the way Sony handled the DLC was [...]

White Knight Chronicles
Genre: RPG
Developer: Level 5
Publisher: SCEA
Release Date: 02/02/10
Level 5 has managed to develop a solid reputation as a developer, thanks to some solid and quirky releases over the years. RPG fans will immediately recognize them as the developers of games like Dark Cloud, Dragon Quest VIII and Rogue Galaxy, strategy fans will know them [...]

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
Genre: Puzzle/Platforming
Developer: The Odd Gentlemen
Publisher: 2K Play
Release Date: 02/17/2010
Since Paul Bellezza from The Odd Gentlemen filled us in on the details of The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom with our recent interview, I had grown even more interested in exploring the black-and-white, pastry-filled world crafted in the title. The big [...]

Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
Developer: Omega Force
Publisher: Koei
Genre: Hack ‘n Slash
Release Date: 2/16/2010
Koei is good for nothing if not ensuring that we will always, without fail, have a copy of Dynasty Warriors to play. They are developing a bad habit of releasing a game, then releasing that same game for another system with “additions”. Dynasty Warriors 6 [...]

Crime Scene
Publisher: SouthPeak Games
Developer: White Birds Productions
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: 02/16/2010
At this point, I’m clearly no stranger to detective games on the DS. It all started when I played Hotel Dusk. After the awesomeness that was that game, I was ready and willing to play any any other detective game just on the off chance it [...]

Data East Arcade Classics
Genre: Compilation
Developer: G-Mode, G1M1
Publisher: Majesco
Release Date: 02/19/2010
Back in the eighties, arcade games were a whole lot more prolific than they are now, and often a lot more creative to boot. Granted, the games all fit into the genres of the time, be they sports, shooters, beat-em-ups and so on, but the concepts [...]

Korg DS-10 Plus
Publisher: XSEED Games
Developer: AQ Interactive
Genre: Music
Release Date: 2/16/2010
Hey hey hey! Remember that Korg DS-10 review I did a long while back? No? Anyone? Ok. Well. See, there was this awesome little synth that came out in November 2008 for the Nintendo DS. It was cheap, fun, [...]