Our first look at Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood explained all the gritty details, but lacked a first-hand account of how it plays. Last week we were able to take part in a tour of the game's earliest area, the legendary Green Hill Zone, and can now shed a bit more light on BioWare's grand RPG experiment.

Sonic and Tails are together right from the beginning, already on a quest to find Knuckles. Using only the stylus, ...

A truly unique use of the stylus, an original premise and an ethereal aesthetic makes Soul Bubbles one of the most intriguing DS titles we’ve seen in a while. The 2D puzzler puts you in charge of a young shaman apprentice who must herd lost souls to safety. Using your stylus, you’ll encapsulate the spherical souls in bubbles by circling them. Then, with a satisfying sweep across the touch screen, you can create a gentle breeze, ...

When a glowing jade comet crashes into Earth and spews green funk all over the vegetation, it’s up to a group of - wait for it - Mushroom Men, to traverse the lands and save their tribe. Set for release on the DS later this year, Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi tasks you as one of three spore-bearing fungi and enables you to scavenge your surroundings for makeshift weapons, while beating on mutated baddies. We recently got our hands on an unfinished version, and while a little rough around the edges, definitely provided for an original, clever experience. ...

At each of Spore’s five stages, from the microbiotic to the intergalactic, there is an eternal choice: kill or... don’t. When you start, as a microbe with teeth, it’s kill or be vegetarian. When you evolve enough to crawl from the primordial soup to dry land, it’s kill or sing little songs to befriend things. Once your species forms a society and decides what buildings to have in its first village, it’s kill or ...

The last thing you’d expect to see from a kids’ cartoon spinoff series that already has several videogame incarnations under its belt is something new. But that’s what you get from Code Lyoko: Fall of XANA. This DS adventure has gone all-out on the game design, making for a more interesting Code Lyoko game than your average TV show spinoff.

The bulk of the game is a turn-based RPG model with the main cast of the show - ...

Drawn to Life developer, 5th Cell has another promising DS title up its sleeve that’s worth keeping an eye on. Lock's Quest will place you in the role of Lock. He’s an Archineer - that’s part architect, part engineer - who’s charged with defending his town from an invading clockwork army. Led by the undeniably evil Lord Agony, the clockworks are after your hometown’s rich Source wells. ...