411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Cursed Mountain, and Harvest Moon: Magical Melody.
Electronic Arts have revealed that the successful Hasbro Family Game Night series of Xbox LIVE Arcade downloadable games will be making their debut at high street retail later this year on Xbox 360 alongside the retail releases of Hasbro Family Game Night 2 on Wii and Nintendo DS.
This November, everyone's favourite spud returns to the Nintendo Wii with a new collection of Hasbro games. Hasbro Family Game Night 2, the successor to the popular Hasbro Family Game Night Wii game, includes five new titles that give board game lovers a whole new way to play: Operation, Boppit, Jenga, Pictureka, and Connect 4x4.
Nominations for Develop Industry Excellence Awards are unveiled, and two developers are likely to walk away with most of them.
Developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS, Heroes of Mana breathes new life into the World of Mana by taking it into an entirely new dimension. For the first time in the history of the series, stylus-wielding generals must plan, plot and strategize their way to victory on the battlefield.
Square-Enix confirmed today that Heroes of Mana is coming to the Nintendo DS in Europe this Autumn. Heroes of Mana breaks away from the traditional action RPG experience, and plans to deliver a Mana game that will offer real-time strategy gameplay.
Square Enix's DS RPG, Heroes of Mana, has just appeared on German ratings website USK, confirming it will come to Europe in the near future, seemingly self-published this time, unlike the unfairly overlooked Nintendo-distributed Children of Mana. Whilst europeans gamers wait for official confirmation. Check out the hands on impressions after the jump.
Kotaku reports "Individuals registered in "Square Enix members" (think Club Nintendo, but mopey) have a shot at winning one of thirty 60GB PLAYSTATION 3s. Just buy Square titles put on sale this month and enter the PS3 raffle. This month, three titles are on sale: Seiken Densetsu, Front Mission 1st and Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix. In each package, there's a member's point card. So buying all them of them increases your odds at winning a PS3. Kinda expensive, but still way cheaper than a 60GB PS3."