Trioncube

New issue of HGZine for DS and PSP manages to fit giant monkeys, spaceships and robots all into one issue. There's an exclusive preview of Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber, plus Race & Create, and tonnes more.

There is something intriguing about Trioncube. By carefully studying its Japanese website, it slowly becomes clear what you're trying to do is mesh together the five types of falling blocks by rotating them as they fall into an initial 3x3 square, called a Trion. Then, the trick becomes to expand that square by making sure subsequent falling blocks are dropped in such a way as to create a new 3x3 square.

Alright, so falling blocks haven't really been novel since the mid '80s. But that hasn't stopped the production of all make and manner of block-oriented puzzle games, many of which have been quite entertaining. Announced today, NAMCO's Trioncube hopes to lodge itself in your DS by being one of the ones that does it right. The goal of the game is to create the eponymous Trion Cube by arranging the falling pieces into 3x3 blocks. This will fill your spaceship's fuel tanks so you can reach the