Natural disasters have turned San Verona, Skate's concrete paradise, into wreckage. The populace has been evacuated. So what's a skater to do? Answer: Carve a pinewood path through the scattered remains of all our favourite Skate spots, drops and jumps in EA's Wii and DS spin-off, Skate It.

Skate's best feature - the Flick It trick system - clearly won't transfer directly to Wii or DS. So developer Black Box has had to think of ...

Do you have the reflexes of a champion? How about the dexterity of a missile-equipped death mech? If you answered yes to at least one of those questions, then Treasure’s Bangai-O Spirits is up your alley. Developed as a sequel to the Dreamcast favorite, you pilot an anime-like mech against a battalion of nukes, laser bullets and enough formidable opponents to turn your tears into ash. ...

We've played levels from all three movies featured in the game. But how does plastic Indy stand up against plastic Han Solo? Let our words and videos inform you. ...

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 ...

Text-y point-and-click adventure games are making a comeback on Nintendo's can-do handheld. With hits like Ace Attorney and Hotel Dusk along with lesser titles like Touch Detective, the time is right for solving mysteries on the DS, which makes room for some very obscure, if long running, titles to be localized for the first time. That brings us to Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles, the first US release of a Japanese detective series that is more than 20 years old. ...

Channeling how awesome recess was and how quickly pick-up games of dodgeball can escalate into full-scale donnybrooks is Aksys’ Super Dodgeball Brawlers, hitting the DS late May. Just in time for lazy summer days, Brawlers enables you to throw together your own team of misfits (just like the movie!) and chuck rubber balls at foreigners in the globetrotting Tournament mode. We recently got our hands on an unfinished version of Brawlers ...

Here's a mind-boggling statistic - this year's Crash Bandicoot game will mark the fifteenth installment of the series in just over a decade's time. Fifteen. What could Mind Over Mutant, the newest adventure of the marsupial omnivore (seriously, look it up), possibly do that we haven't seen... well, fifteen times before?

You might be surprised, especially if you haven't tried a Crash game in several years. Mind Over Mutant breaks free ...

Even if you don’t own any DS games, there’s always Pictochat, the built-in chat room feature that no one seems to ever use. Draw images (such as, say, a penis). Write words (such as, again, penis). There is so much untapped penis-related material to work with, but hardly anyone to share it with. Enter LOL, developer Agetec’s latest title that tries to transform sharing messages and drawings into a full fledged DS ...

That's right! We've actually played From the Abyss. You don't know what that is? Well, you must not be up to date on your recently announced Nintendo DS action RPGs published by Aksys. Luckily for you, we can tell you all about it. From the Abyss takes one of five customizable heroes through a 2D fantasy world. You'll arm yourself with whatever spells, skills and weapons suit your playing style and set out to unleash the hurt on areas full ...

Mister Slime is the most active blob we’ve ever seen. Left alone he is just a motionless, spherical face – much like the good-for-nothing blob living above us who calls himself the landlord. But once he gets moving, he can have up to four arms outstretched at a time, which allows him to make his way through a level as he moves from each little dot on the screen. The mechanics of swinging works a lot like DK King of Swing, but a ...