This week’s Nintendo downloads

Liven up your week with Jazzy Billiards on Nintendo DSiWare and practice your pool skills to some smooth jazz tunes.

Liven up your week with Jazzy Billiards on Nintendo DSiWare and practice your pool skills to some smooth jazz tunes.

UTV Ignition Entertainment Ltd along with co-publisher Hothead Games, released a brand-new trailer and the first-ever gameplay video for Swarm which will be released in early 2011.

EA have released a new video for Need For Speed Hot Pursuit as seen below.

One of the most addictive games on the planet is to get a free level cap increase to 69, Mature-gaming has been told.

Konami has announced it will release a free demo of its forthcoming PES 2011 on September 15th, with subscribers to SCEE’s PS+ service able to play the demo from September 8th.

Ubisoft announced that Bloody Good Time, a new ip being developed by Outerlight, will be released on Xbox LIVE Arcade and on Steam this Autumn.

Namco Bandai Games Europe S.A.S announced today the launch of an ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West inspired post-apocalyptic design contest in the UK.

2K Games and Gearbox Software have announced that forever is nearly here, as Duke Nukem Forever will officially make its long-awaited debut for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows PC in calendar 2011.

Harmonix and MTV Games today confirmed the entire 83 song on-disc soundtrack for the highly anticipated Rock Band 3.

Capcom is happy to announce that Dead Rising 2: CASE ZERO, the prologue to its upcoming game, Dead Rising 2, is available today exclusively on Xbox LIVE.

When the party starts on October 19, budding beat chemists, singing sensations and all of their friends will experience over 100 of the biggest tracks from the hottest artists.

Since its announcement earlier this month, Worms Reloaded has become the talk of the internet, with thousands upon thousands of people professing their rediscovered love of a series that has been a significant part of their gaming lives.

Starting today, Microsoft is inviting everyone to bear witness to the heroism of Noble Team, as depicted in a dramatic, live-action short for the launch of the biggest game of the year on 14th September.

Ginx TV, a global operator of video gaming channels and producer of the gaming television show Gameface, today announced the launch of a dedicated UK TV channel.


To celebrate the launch of Mafia II on August 27th, 2K Games announced today the start of its experiential Mafia II Pop-up Barber Shop Tour, where shoppers can receive a free shave, haircut and exclusive Mafia II T-shirt – simply by turning up on the day!

BradyGames today announced that it has been working exclusively with Bungie on the Halo Reach Signature Series Guide.

On October 8, 2010, cast ye gaze upon the horizon, pray to Poseidon for fair seas and set sail for Sid Meier’s Pirates!, an entertaining journey for adventurous treasure hunters unlike anything ever experienced before for on Wii.

The playable demo for Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 is now available for download on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 and PSN across Europe and the PAL regions.

Brink, developed by Splash Damage and published by Bethesda has looked an interesting proposition for a while now and looks to be one of the big hitters for next year.

EA and award-winning independent development studio Klei Entertainment announced that the highly anticipated downloadable 2D action game Shank, will be available for download on PlayStationNetwork and on Xbox LIVE Arcade today .

When you think of one of the best multiplayer experiences ever that will have you laughing, crying and kissing your own guns in victory then a lot of gamers will point towards the Worms franchise.

KONAMI today announced that Saw II: Flesh & Blood will be available at retail stores nationwide on October 19 for Xbox 360 and PS3, just in time for the release of “Saw VII 3D”.

THQ Inc. today announced the full launch of the company’s new WWE videogames portal at wwe.thq.com, as well as the official community website for WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 at community.smackdownvsraw.com.

With the worldwide launch of the biggest blockbuster game of the year just three weeks away, Microsoft is calling all “Halo” fans to participate in a one-of-a-kind experience: the creation of a monument of light commemorating the heroes of Noble Team and the planet Reach.


Well, this Thursday marks the start of the new NFL season. The bad news is I have to endure another rollercoaster season supporting the Raiders. The good news is that I get my yearly fix of Madden to try and turn the negative tide that surrounds my team.


Who will admit that back in 2007 when we bought the Halo 3 beta that had a game called Crackdown bundled with it thought that Microsoft had found an easy way to shift units of a game that didn’t look that good?


I remember as a kid hanging out in the arcades with my friends pumping many 10 pence coins into the machines, usually all of my pocket money gone in a brief afternoon.


Well, July seems to start the EA Sports franchises rearing their heads. The problem with it is that it is hard to judge how far advanced the game has become from last year’s version.


Finally, we have a game that is something different to the Modern Warfare franchise in the form of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.