Nintendo ended their GDC keynote announcing The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, but never set a release date. Their financial outlook released tonight at least gives the game a timeline, forecasting the portable Zelda game will launch in the latter half of this calendar year.
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A Nintendo source informs Pocket Gamer that forthcoming DS game Zelda: Spirit Tracks will feature DSi specific functions using the new hardware update's camera. DSi users will be able to take snaps of real-life trains and import them into the game.
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Nintendo has revealed The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks game for DS. Instead of a boat, Link's got a train. On the back of the train is a cannon. So you could, for a laugh, say the new Zelda game is an on-rails shooter. Besides rolling out the standard "it will please long-time fans while keeping the game accessible to all DS owners", Nintendo has said absolutely squat all else about Spirit Tracks.

We could tell you that it looks ...

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GamesTM issue #86 hit store shelves with some interesting review scores, including a 5 out of 10 for the generally well received Tales of Vesperia, and a dismal 3 out of 10 for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game movie tie-in.
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411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Let's Tap, Fate/unlimited codes PORTABLE, Class of Heroes, Flower, Sun, and Rain, and Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
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This week's new releases (North America):
(subject to change)

Xbox 360:
PROTOTYPE
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Virtua Tennis 2009

PLAYSTATION 3:
PROTOTYPE
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Virtua Tennis 2009

Wii:
Wii MotionPlus
EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis
Go Play Circus Star
Go Play Lumberjacks
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
MySims Racing
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Wii MotionPlus Bundle
Virtua Tennis 2009

PC:
PROTOTYPE
Samantha Swift 2

DS & DSi:
Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
The Legendary Starfy
Lego Battles
Miami Law
MySims Racing
Puzzle City
You Can Draw

PSP:
Class of Heroes
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
Rock Band Unplugged
Rock Band Unplugged PSP Bundle
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
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Nominations for Develop Industry Excellence Awards are unveiled, and two developers are likely to walk away with most of them.

Rockstar and Media Molecule will be contesting for the most category nominations. Rockstar snags six of them with GTA: Chinatown Wars and GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned from Rockstar while Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet alone is nominated for another five.
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment are pleased to announce that LEGO Batman: The Videogame has won a prestigious Children's BAFTA Award for Best Videogame 2008.

Developer TT Games was snapped up by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in 2007 and has since had a hugely successful 2008 seeing the release of LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Batman: The Videogame.

TT Games beat stiff competition from...
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An excerpt from the latest issue of NGamer, an interview with Traveller's Tales' Arthur Parsons:

"NGamer: Do you see the wider DC universe making it into Lego form? The Justice League could be good.

Arthur Parsons: Whether any more of the DC universe makes the transition into Lego depends largely on the success of Lego Batman, and on whether Traveller's Tales, Warner Bros. and Lego want to make any other characters into Lego games. I'd love to make a sequel to Lego Batman because it was immense fun to work on."
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According to Gamertell, the latest McDonald's Happy Meal toy promotion is for the Lego Batman videogame.

There are eight toys in the set - four vehicles and four characters - and each toy has a videogame cheat code stamped on the bottom.

The cheat codes unlock playable in-game characters (the article offers two codes) in any version of Lego Batman: The Videogame.
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