Category: Nintendo DS

Sudoku Ball Detective Developer: Whitebear Publisher: Playlogic Genre: Puzzle Release Date: 08/18/09

Fossil Fighters Developer: RED Entertainment Publisher: Nintendo Genre: RPG Release Date: 08/10/2009

Garfield Gets Real Genre: Action Developer: Paws Publisher: Zoo Digital Release Date: 07/21/2009

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Developer: Level 5 Publisher: Nintendo Genre: Adventure Release Date: 08/24/09

Aliens In the Attic Developer: Playlogic Publisher: Playlogic Genre: Action Release Date: 08/04/2009

Classic Word Games Developer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft Genre: Education Release Date: 06/23/2009

Overlord Minions Genre: Action/Puzzle Developer: Climax Publisher: Codemasters Release Date: 06/30/09 If you aren’t familiar with the original game that was released on the 360 and later on the PS3, Overlord let you step into the shoes of the antagonist of a fantasy setting. Instead of playing around as Hobbits attempting to get rid of…

Treasure World Genre: Collection Developer: Aspyr Publisher: Aspyr Release Date: 06/30/2009

Naruto Shippuden: Ninja Council 4 Developer: Aspect Digital Publisher: Tomy Genre: Platformer/Action Release Date: 06/02/2009

Flower, Sun and Rain Genre: Adventure Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture Publisher: Xseed Games Release Date: 06/15/09 Goichi Suda, AKA Suda51, is one of those developers who puts the artistic merit of the product ahead of everything else. As a result, many of the games coming from his development house, Grasshopper, are divisive products amongst gamers.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Publisher: Atlus USA Developer: Atlus Genre: Tactical RPG/Turn Based RPG Hybrid Release Date: 06/24/2009 Once upon a time there was a video game series. This video game series called Shin Megami Tensei: Akuma Zensho AKA Devil Summoner. Now this Devil Summoner series had little in common with the Action RPG…

Jake Hunter: Memories of the Past Genre: Adventure/Visual Novel Developer: WorkJam Publisher: Aksys Games Release Date: 05/26/09

Jagged Alliance Genre: Turn-Based Strategy Developer: Strategy First/Cypron Studios Publisher: Atari Release Date: 05/20/09

My Healthy Cooking Coach Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Genre: Cookbook Release Date: 6/23/2009 Around Thanksgiving of 2008, Nintendo released an unlikely hit for the Nintendo DS: Personal Trainer: Cooking. In yet another example of outside the box thinking that paid off, Nintendo managed to win over a decent number of people who don’t normally buy…

Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics Genre: Card Games Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: 04/27/09

Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled Developer: Studio Archcraft Publisher: Graffiti Entertainment Genre: Tactical RPG Release Date: 06/09/2009 Black Sigil is the first game by a new Canadian developer known as Studio Archcraft. Originally this game was developed for the Game Boy Advance, but it appears due to delays, they ported it to the DS…

The Legendary Starfy Publisher: Nintendo Developer: TOSE Genre: Platformer Release Date: 06/08/2009 Densetsu no Starfy was one of Nintendo’s most successful series on the GBA. For some reason, NOA never brought the series outside the little island nation of Japan. All three GBA Starfy’s made to #1 on the sales charts across the pacific and…

Knights in the Nightmare Publisher: Atlus USA Developer: Sting Genre: Turn Based Strategy/Puzzle Release Date: 06/02/2009 Ah, Sting. We meet again. I’ve got an odd love-hate relationship with this developer as they constantly make games that sound interesting on paper but always fall short of being truly great, and sometimes even good. I first encountered…