The first true sequel for Nintendo's long-running and ultra-popular creature-breeding RPG franchise, Pokémon: Black Version 2 sends players back to the Unova region for more exploration, collection, and turn-based battling. Unova has changed drastically in the two years since the first game, with new towns to explore, new characters, and familiar friends in new roles. ...

The first true sequel for Nintendo's long-running and ultra-popular creature-breeding RPG franchise, Pokémon: White Version 2 sends players back to the Unova region for more exploration, collection, and turn-based battling. Unova has changed drastically in the two years since the first game, with new towns to explore, new characters, and familiar friends in new roles. ...

Based on the Japanese series of books that teach children how to draw using basic shapes, Let's Draw offers gamers more than 100 different items to sketch. Touch-screen controls and voice instructions are included for children too young to read, and finished drawings come to life, complete with animation and sound. There are also ten ...

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 continues the strategic, turn-based battles of its predecessor with an all-new storyline and cast of characters. Once again players can collect, customize, and fuse demons to assist them in battle. Players will also develop relationships and bonds with party members to improve their chances of success. Yet if a ...

The Kingdom Hearts action role-playing series makes its DS debut with an original storyline that falls in between the original Kingdom Hearts (2002) and Kingdom Hearts II (2005). You control a boy named Roxas, loyal member of the mysterious Organization XIII, on a quest to collect hearts from the shadowy creatures known as the Heartless. ...

A Pokémon-flavored homage to the classic NES title Nobunaga's Revenge, Pokémon Conquest puts DS players in control of a young warlord and his linked Pokémon as they attempt to expand their kingdom by engaging in turn-based tactical combat. Gamers send their Pokémon into six-on-six battles, using their warriors' special abilities, and making sure to include ...

The popular virtual world for kids comes to DS for the first time as players travel across three different islands collecting objects, solving puzzles, and taking on mini-games in Poptropica Adventures. It seems the Poptropica museum is in shambles, and it's up to gamers to restore it by running and jumping through the island levels ...

Natsume once again adds traditional fantasy RPG elements to its pastoral farming series as players take on the role of a half-human, half-monster who seeks to unite feuding races in Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon. The Sharance people have been in conflict with their horned Univir neighbors for years, and it's up to ...

Taking place after the events of Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded has players revisiting many of the same Disney worlds from the first two games by traveling within a digitized version of Sora's journal. After Jiminy Cricket discovers a mysterious message lurking within the tome documenting Sora's adventures, King Mickey orders the journal ...

Natsume's long-running farming series returns to the 3DS as green-thumbed gamers help restore the economically depressed Echo Village in Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning. Tasked with taking over the family farm, players must first restore the entire town by finding blueprints and building structures. After that, it's classic agricultural action as gamers plant and ...

Having successfully distilled huge movie franchises into small worlds filled with destructible blocks, LEGO turns to its own real-time strategy series to bring its martial-arts themed brand extension to gamers for the first time in LEGO Battles: Ninjago. Central to the game is Spinjitzu, a combat art in which characters whirl themselves into tornadoes to ...

Ragnarok DS is a handheld counterpart to the online computer game of the same title, set in a realm based on the Ragnarok Korean comic series, inspired by Norse mythology. The game follows a well-defined single-player storyline, set in the world of the "massively multiplayer" version of the game for PCs. Players take control of ...

The third entry in the Nintendo DS-exclusive Etrian Odyssey RPG series, The Drowned City sends adventurers on an epic journey across the sea and beneath the waves, in search of the technological secrets and legendary treasures of a sunken metropolis. Similar to its predecessors, Etrian Odyssey III plays with the sophistication of a tabletop role-playing ...

The third game in Level-5's brain teaser series, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future takes the Professor's adventures into the fourth dimension after he and his apprentice Luke receive a strange letter from ten years in the future. Gamers then guide the duo through more than 165 math, science, logic, and visual puzzles, winding their ...

Gamers can help the famed city of Rome grow from a small village into a great empire in 100 levels of "match-three" adventure in Cradle of Rome 2. Players match three or more items to collect resources, earn gold, and find citizens to help construct buildings and populate the city. There are eight different power-ups ...

Create the 7 Wonders as you travel around the world and visit locations that include the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Great Pyramid of Giza. Match colored rune coins to clear the board and move to the next of 147 different puzzles in 49 levels. Each level completed earns you tools and supplies needed ...

This third entry in PopCap's pervasive puzzle series returns to the same match-three mechanic and stylus controls that made the first two games popular DS titles. Choose from eight game types designed to test your gem-matching abilities in various ways. Quest mode, for example, has you completing 40 consecutive puzzles, while lightning mode has you ...

Match three or more runes to build one of seven all-new wonders in this sequel to 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. As with its predecessor, the action in 7 Wonders II involves trying to remove blocks located behind specific runes, which are used by a series of workers to build a wonder. The more ...

This compilation bundles all four Game Bay Advance entries in the "Zero" branch of Capcom's popular robotic shooter onto one DS cartridge. Gamers can try their hand at Mega Man Zero, Mega Man Zero 2, Mega Man Zero 3, and Mega Man Zero 4. Mega Man Zero Collection compiles all four Mega Man Zero games previously ...

Resident Evil: Deadly Silence is a revamped version of 1996's genre-defining horror game on the original PlayStation. Of course, the differences between the two platforms has necessitated a few changes, including some all-new segments designed to take advantage of the handheld's touch-screen capabilities. Otherwise the storyline, characters, and the underlying premise are identical to the ...

The next chapter in Nintendo's blockbuster Pokémon franchise features 156 completely new creatures to battle, capture, tame, and train. Two distinct starting areas are now available, Black City and White Forest, each corresponding to the game's title. Exclusive legendary Pokémon types are also associated with each version of the game, requiring players to trade with ...

PopCap Games' hit "tower defense" strategy game where anthropomorphic flowers square off against reanimated corpses comes to the DS in Plants vs. Zombies. "Adventure" mode finds players strategically placing weapon-wielding plants to cut down 26 different kinds of comical undead, including zombie pole-vaulters, zombie dolphins, "Zomboni" drivers, and the ever-dangerous zombie bobsled team. Zombies come in ...

Rising Star Games takes the historically themed match-three/construction puzzles of Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome and moves them down the Silk Road in Cradle of Persia. Players once again swap adjacent tiles in an attempt to create matches of three or more and earn food, jewels, gold, resources, and magical artifacts. There are 100 levels ...

Nintendo's acclaimed role-playing series makes its anticipated transition from Game Boy Advance to DS with Dark Dawn. Taking place 30 years after the first two Golden Sun titles, the DS game finds the world of Weyward undergoing a dramatic transformation. The return of the Golden Sun to the land has resulted in the formation of ...

The crusade against the vampire Dracula continues, as Castlevania debuts on DS with this fast-paced fighting adventure. Serving as a sequel to the GBA's Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (2003), Dawn of Sorrow returns players to the role of Soma Cruz, a noble hero who struggles to resist his ...