DS Previews

As far as minigame collections go, the first two Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop games are among the best on the DS. Best played in short bursts, Corner Shop 1 and 2 offer a polished casual experience, with lots of variety among the shops, catchy music and tons of personality. In Corner Shop 3, you'll find the same formula intact, with a bit of a facelift and lots of little upgrades to explore. The shops themselves are all new, four of

For those of you who never played Corner Shop or Corner Shop 2, let us introduce you to the cutest game you will ever play. The Corner Shop games are all about building, running and upgrading stores in your tiny Tamagotchi-populated town. There are 13 new shops in Corner Shop 3 - including an ice cream parlor, a day spa, a day care center and a party planning business.

Corner Shop 3 aims to be more “entrepreneurial,”

The real pull of Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff on the DS isn’t the game itself. It’s the nostalgia for the old days that comes flooding in when you play it. We’re talking about those 8-bit salad days when blowing the dust out of those old carts and loading them into your NES in just the right way was a sacred ritual.

It’s all because Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff is all about keeping things old school and that’s a good thing.

Role-playing games have come a long way since their inception in videogame-dom. The big franchises almost all sport immersive 3D worlds, iconic and developed characters, and cinematic cut-scenes. But what if you didn’t want all that — the toned-down level of challenge, the movie sequences that spell out what you’d prefer to just imagine, the androgynous protagonists?