Nintendo DS News

Given that E3 is next week, the lineup of new releases is rather yet, at the same time, surprisingly full. We'll be getting Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, Inversion, Dungeonbowl, Bang Bang Racing, and some other odds and ends.

Word of it leaked a while back, but Warner Bros today finally announced LEGO The Lord of the Rings, bringing the movie trilogy to video games in plasticised form.

Next week will bring Capcom's curious action-RPG Dragon's Dogma, WW2 sim Iron Front, which is built upon the Arma 2 engine, the PC edition of Alan Wake's American Nightmare, and the Xbox 360 and PS3 editions of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.

Diablo III is coming out next week. That is all. Oh wait, no, it's not, we're also getting Max Payne 3. No biggie. And A Game of Thrones, and Sonic 4: Episode 2, and PixelJunk 4am, and... and...

Next week will bring the launch of Starhawk, the spiritual successor to Warhawk, along with the PC edition of Street Fighter X Tekken, the Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft, fighter Phantom Breaker, and more.

Another week, another nice bag bag of new releases! Next week will bring games including Sniper Elite V2, Tera, Fable Heroes, Mortal Kombat on Vita, and the PC editions of Nexuiz and Port Royale 3.

Cor, a new week already? You'd better learn what's coming out, then. Next week's new releases include Prototype 2 on consoles, the bloody Bloodforge, and the PC editions of Binary Domain and Risen 2: Dark Waters.

Next week will bring our 2011 Game of the Year, The Witcher 2 to Xbox 360, and other new releases including Trials Evolution, Botanicula, and the PC editions of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP.

Quality wins over quantity in next week's lineup of new releases, with games including IGF 2012 Grand Prize winner Fez, pretty throwback dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock, Skullgirls, and the free-to-play Tribes: Ascend.

What's coming out next week? Oh, you know, Duke Nukem Forever and Ever, Final Fantasy XIII-3: Reckoning - Retribution, Milo & Kate, and Elite 4. Ha ha not really, April Fool's! Now you look stupid!

Next week's new releases include the console version of Ridge Racer Unbounded, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, the PC edition of Rayman Origins, indie survive 'em up Lone Survivor, eerie puzzle-platformer Closure, and more.

The good times continue to roll, with new releases next week including Ninja Gaiden 3, the Silent Hill HD Collection, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, expandalone Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai, Angry Birds Space, and Kid Icarus: Uprising

Next weeks' new releases include Journey, Silent Hill: Downpour, the new FIFA Street, Yakuza: Dead Souls, Ridge Racer for Vita, Tales of Graces F, and heaps more.

Though the first anniversary of 3DS's US launch isn't until March 27, Nintendo is already boasting about its first-year hardware sales. 4.5 million of the shiny handhelds were sold in the US alone, almost doubling the original DS's first year performance.

Next week will bring something very rare and special--a new PS2 game. Other new releases include Street Fighter X Tekken, I Am Alive, MLB 12: The Show, and something named Mass Effect 3--looks like some sort of sci-fi shooter-RPG to my eyes.